The Mighty Marvel Superheroes' Cookbook (1977)

Here's some recipes from The Mighty Marvel Superheroes' Cookbook (1977). If you're really hungry, I highly recommend the Hulk's Spaghetti and Meat Balls.

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Planet Hulk On DVD and Blu-ray

From Marvel.com --

A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF HURT!


He was a monster, impossible to control, too dangerous to ignore.


So Earth’s mightiest heroes exiled him into outer space.


But now the Incredible Hulk crash lands on the distant planet Sakaar, ruled by the tyrannical Red King. Sold into slavery, Hulk becomes the planet’s mightiest gladiator—but his new masters get more than they bargained for when he forges a bond of brotherhood with his fellow fighters: crafty insectoid Miek, ruthless rock-man Korg, ex-shadow pirest Hiroim, and the noble-born rebel Elloe.


Unlike Earth, the desperate people of Sakaar believe a monster is just what they need. But will the Hulk be the one to save their world… or destroy it?

On February 2, one of Marvel's most epic sagas of all-time lands in stores on DVD and Blu-ray Disc as "Planet Hulk" makes its incredible animated debut. However, this Thursday, January 14, the gamma-irradiated excitement hits a new level when The Paley Center for Media plays host on two coasts to the exclusive first screenings of the film, along with panels featuring comic and animation talent, as well as limited edition giveaways and creator signings.

Co-sponsored by New York Comic Con and Newsarama.com in association with Marvel Animation and Lionsgate Home Entertainment, the screenings will begin at 6:30 PM local time in New York City and Los Angeles respectively with panel discussions and signings following immediately after at 8:30 PM.

World Wrestling Entertainment's Matt Striker, color commentator of Friday Night Smackdown, will moderate a panel featuring Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, Hulk editor Mark Paniccia, President of Marvel Animation Eric Rollman, and INCREDIBLE HULK writer Greg Pak, the architect behind the original "Planet Hulk" comic book storyline.

In Los Angeles, Blair Butler, host of the Fresh Ink segment on G4's "Attack of the Show" as well as the writer and producer of the "Slasher School" animated shorts, will welcome Emmy Award-nominated and Eisner Award-winning HULK writer Jeph Loeb, "Planet Hulk" screenwriter Greg Johnson, Supervising Director Frank Paur, Supervising Producer Josh Fine and the voice of the Hulk himself, Rick D. Wasserman, to discuss the film and comics.

Fans should also keep their eyes on Newsarama.com and NewYorkComicCon.com for further announcements, exclusive clips from the upcoming film, inside interviews with the panelists and more. Also, check out Marvel.com's hub page!

My Wikipedia Band

I saw this over at Caffinated Joe and thought it would be fun. I even made an album cover!

Your Wikipedia Band

1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band’s name.
2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.



Band: Jock Espie
Album: Precisionist

1. Peruvian Football Federation
2. Ernst-Felix Krüder
3. Jalmar Castrén
4. Austrailian Stock Car Auto Racing
5. Longirostromeryx
6. Irish Phone Tapping Scandal (1983)
7. Totton & Eling F.C.
8. Kallocain
9. Andrzej Łapicki
10. Poestenkill (CDP), New York
11. Katuic Languages
12. Sendo P600
13. Somonauk Township, DeKalb County, Illinois
14. Mountains of the Moon
15. So Long

How cool is that last track?

Star Blazers

Star Blazers was one of my favorite cartoons when I was young. It was the American version of the Japanese anime series Space Battleship Yamato and was first broadcast in the United States in 1979.

Here's the original English intro --

Let's all sing along!

We're off to outer space
We're leaving Mother Earth
To save the human race
Our Star Blazers

Searching for a distant star
Heading off to Iscandar
Leaving all we love behind
Who knows what danger we'll find?

We must be strong and brave
Our home we've got to save
If we don't in just one year
Mother Earth will disappear

Fighting with the Gamilons
We won't stop until we've won
Then we'll return and when we arrive
The Earth will survive
With our Star Blazers

In December 2010 a live action version of the cartoon will be released in Japan. I hope it's eventually dubbed or subtitled for English audiences.

Here's the (awesome) teaser trailer --

Art Clokey, R.I.P.

From Time.com --

Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, died Friday. He was 88.

Clokey, who suffered from repeated bladder infections, died in his sleep at his home in Los Osos on California's Central Coast, son Joseph told the Los Angeles Times.

Gumby grew out of a student project Clokey produced at the University of Southern California in the early 1950s called "Gumbasia."

That led to his making shorts featuring Gumby and his horse friend Pokey for the "Howdy Doody Show" and several series through the years.

He said he based Gumby's swooping head on the cowlick hairdo of his father, who died in a car accident when Clokey was nine. And Clokey's wife suggested he give Gumby the body of a gingerbread man.

Clokey said that though Gumby eventually became one of the most familiar toys of all time, he was at first resistant to roll out the bendable doll.

"I didn't allow merchandising for seven years after it was on the air," Clokey told San Luis Obispo Tribune in 2002, "because I was very idealistic, and I didn't want parents to think we were trying to exploit their children."

Clokey also created the moralizing and often satirized claymation duo "Davey and Goliath."

The Lutheran Church hired Clokey to make the "Davey and Goliath" shorts, and Clokey used the money to help bring a Gumby series back to television in the 1960s.

Eddie Murphy brought a surge in Gumby's popularity in the 1980s with his send-up of the character on "Saturday Night Live" as a cigar-smoking show business primadonna.

Clokey said he enjoyed Murphy's profane Gumby.

"Gumby can laugh at himself," Clokey told the Tribune.

Murphy's Gumby brought new toy sales and eventually led to a new syndicated series starting in 1988.

It was only then that Clokey started seeing serious financial returns on his creation.

"It took 40 years," he said.

Gone In '09

As I've done in past years, here's a partial list of famous people who left us in 2009. This list comes from Who's Alive and Who's Dead. Visit the website here. Or join the Yahoo! group here. It wasn't a very good year to be famous. We lost a lot of big stars. May they rest in peace.

Previous lists --

Gone In '06
Gone In '07
Gone In '08

January 3 - Pat Hingle, actor (Commisioner Gordon in "Batman"), 84
January 6 - Cheryl Holdridge, TV performer ("The Mickey Mouse Club"), 64
January 8 - Jon Hager, country musician (The Hager Twins), 67
January 12 - Russ Conway, actor (Fenton Hardy in "The Hardy Boys"), 95
January 13 - Patrick McGoohan, actor ("The Prisoner"), 80
January 14 - Ricardo Montalban, actor ("Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"), 88
January 17 - Susanna Foster, actress ("Phantom of the Opera"), 84
January 18 - Bob May, actor (Robot in "Lost In Space"),69
January 20 - Dante "Gluefingers" Lavelli, NFL football player (Cleveland Browns), 85
January 27 - John Updike, novelist ("Rabbit Is Rich"), 76
January 28 - Billy Powell, rock keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynryd), 56
January 30 - Ingemar Johansson, heavyweight boxer, 76
January 31 - Clint Ritchie, actor (Clint Buchanan on "One Life to Live"), 70
February 4 - Lux Interior, punk singer (The Cramps), 60
February 6 - James Whitmore, actor ("The Shawshank Redemption"), 87
February 6 - Phil Carey, actor (Asa Buchanan on "One Life to Live"), 83
February 6 - Shirley Jean Rickert, actress ("Our Gang"), 82
February 7 - Molly Bee, country singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), 69
February 21 - Robert Quarry, actor ("Count Yorga, Vampire"), 83
February 28 - "Uncle Al" Lewis, children's TV host (Cincinnati, OH), 84
March 3 - Sydney Chaplin, stage actor ("Funny Girl"), 82. He was the son of actor Charlie Chaplin
March 7 - Jimmy Boyd, child singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"),70
March 8 - Hank Locklin, country singer ("Please Help Me, I'm Falling"), 91
March 13 - Betsy Blair, actress ("Marty"), 85. She was actor/dancer Gene Kelly's first wife
March 14 - Millard Kaufman, screenwriter (Mister Magoo), 92
March 15 - Ron Silver, actor("Reversal of Fortune"), 62
March 18 - Natasha Richardson, actress ("The Handmaid's Tale"), 45. She was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and wife of actor Liam Neeson
March 24 - George Kell, major leaguer (Detroit Tigers), 86
March 25 - Dan Seals, pop singer (England Dan and John Ford Coley), 61
March 28 - Maurice Jarre, film soundtrack composer ("Dr. Zhivago"), 84
March 29 - Andy Hallett, actor (Lorne on "Angel"), 33
April 7 - Dave Arneson, invented Dungeons & Dragons, 61
April 7 - Jack Wrangler, porn actor, 62
April 12 - Marilyn Chambers, porn actress ("Behind the Green Door"), 57
April 13 - Harry Kalas, baseball announcer (Philadelphia Phillies), 73
April 22 - Ken Annakin, film director ("Swiss Family Robinson"), 94
April 25 - Beatrice Arthur, actress (Dorothy on "The Golden Girls"), 86
April 27 - Vern Gosdin, country singer ("Chiseled in Stone"), 74
May 1 - Danny Gans, Las Vegas entertainer, 52
May 2 - Jack Kemp, U.S. Congressman (R-NY) and pro football player (Buffalo Bills), 73
May 4 - Dom DeLuise, actor ("The Cannonball Run"), 75
May 6 - Donald "Ean" Evans, rock bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), 48
May 7 - Mickey Carroll, actor ("The Wizard of Oz"), 89
May 15 - Wayman Tisdale, NBA basketball player (Indiana Pacers) and jazz bassist, 44
May 18 - Wayne Allwine, voice actor (Mickey Mouse), 62
May 18 - Carol "Cookie" Cole, actress (Ellie on "Sanford and Son"), 64. She was the sister of Natalie Cole and the adopted daughter of Nat "King" Cole
May 20 - Lucy Gordon, actress ("Spider Man 3"), 29
May 21 - Joan Stanton, radio actress (Lois Lane on "Superman"), 94
May 28 - Mort Abrahams, film and TV producer ("The Man from U.N.C.L.E."),93
June 3 - David Carradine, actor (Caine on "Kung Fu"), 72
June 3 - Koko Taylor, blues singer ("Wang Dang Doodle"), 80
June 4 - Dorothy Taylor, actress (Laurel & Hardy pictures), 96
June 5 - Richard Jacobs, baseball executive (Cleveland Indians), 83
June 6 - Pio Sagapolutele, NFL football player (New England Patriots),39
June 10 - Dave Simons, comic artist (Spider-Man), 54
June 23 - Ed McMahon, TV announcer & pitchman ("The Tonight Show"), 86
June 25 - Farrah Fawcett, actress (Jill Munroe on "Charlie's Angels"), 62
June 25 - Michael Jackson, pop singer ("Thriller"), 50
June 27 - Gale Storm, actress (Margie Albright on "My Little Margie), 87
June 28 - Billy Mays, TV pitchman (OxiClean), 50
June 28 - Fred Travalena, comedian & impersonator, 66
July 1 - Karl Malden, actor (Detective Stone on "The Streets of San Francisco"), 97
July 1 - Mollie Sugden, actress (Mrs. Slocombe on "Are You Being Served?"), 86
July 4 - Steve McNair, NFL football player (Tennessee Titans), 36
July 6 - Robert S. MacNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense (1961-68), 93
July 13 - Brenda Joyce, actress ("Tarzan and the Amazons"), 92
July 14 - Dallas McKennon, actor (Cincinnatus on "Daniel Boone"), 89
July 16 - Gordon Waller, pop singer (Peter and Gordon), 64
July 17 - Walter Cronkite, TV news anchor (CBS), 92
July 21 - Heinz Edelmann, artist ("Yellow Submarine"), 75
July 21 - Les Lye, actor ("You Can't Do That On Television"), 84
July 23 - "Dirty" Danny McBride, guitarist (Sha Na Na), about 64
August 1 - Corazon Aquino, Philippines president (1986-92), 76
August 6 - Willy DeVille, punk singer (Mink DeVille), 58
August 6 - John Hughes, filmmaker ("Uncle Buck"), 59
August 9 - John Quade, actor ("Every Which Way But Loose"), 71
August 11 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, advocate for the mentally disabled, 88. She was the sister of Sen. Edward Kennedy and wife of political figure Sargent Shriver
August 12 - Ruth Ford, actress ("Across the Pacific"), 98
August 13 - Les Paul, guitarist and guitar designer, 94
August 15 - Virginia Davis, actress ("Alice's Day at Sea"), 90
August 18 - Robert Novak, political columnist/commentator ("Crossfire"), 78
August 25 - Ted Kennedy, U.S. Senator (D-MA, 1963-2009), 77
August 26 - Dominick Dunne, writer ("Vanity Fair"), 83
August 26 - Ellie Greenwich, pop songwriter ("Chapel of Love"), 68
August 28 - Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein, radio broadcaster, 36
September 8 - Army Archerd, entertainment columnist ("Variety"), 87
September 11 - Larry Gelbart, screenwriter & director ("M*A*S*H"), 81
September 14 - Henry Gibson, actor ("Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"), 73
September 14 - Patrick Swayze, actor/dancer ("Ghost"), 57
September 16 - Mary Travers, folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), 72
September 17 - Dick Hoover, professional bowler, 79

September 17 - Dick Durock, actor ("Swamp Thing"), 72
September 19 - Arthur Ferrante, pianist, 88
September 27 - William Safire, political columnist (New York Times), 79
October 13 - Al Martino, crooner ("Here In My Heart"), 82
October 13 - William Wayne Justice, U.S. judge (Texas), 89
October 14 - "Captain" Lou Albano, pro wrestler (featured in a Cyndi Lauper music video), 76
October 16 - George Tuska, comic artist ("Iron Man"), 93
October 17 - Vic Mizzy, TV theme songwriter ("Addams Family"), 93
October 19 - Joseph Wiseman, actor ("Dr. No"), 91
October 22 - Soupy Sales, entertainer, 83
October 23 - Lou Jacobi, actor ("Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex"), 95
October 30 - Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist ("The Savage Mind"), 100
November 3 - Carl Ballantine, actor (Lester Gruber on "McHale's Navy"), 92
November 10 - David Lloyd, TV comedy writer ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show"), 75. He was the father of "Frasier" writer Christopher Lloyd and was unrelated to "Taxi" and "Back to the Future" actor Christopher Lloyd
November 15 - Ken Ober, TV host ("Remote Control"), 52
November 16 - Edward Woodward, actor (Robert McCall in "The Equalizer"), 79
November 23 - Robert Degen, songwriter ("Hokey Pokey"), 104
November 27 - Al Alberts, crooner (The Four Aces) and Philadelphia TV host, 87
November 27 - Irving "Bud" Tripp, comic book artist ("Little Lulu"), 88
December 3 - Liam Clancy, Irish folk singer (Clancy Brothers), 74
December 3 - Richard Todd, actor ("The Longest Day"), 90
December 7 - Mark Ritts, actor (Lester on "Beakman's World"), 63
December 9 - Gene Barry, actor ("Bat Masterson"), 90
December 15 - Oral Roberts, Pentecostal evangelist, 91
December 16 - Roy E. Disney, entertainment executive (The Walt Disney Co.). He was the nephew of Walt Disney
December 17 - Alaina Reed Hall, actress (Olivia on "Sesame Street"), 63
December 17 - Jennifer Jones, actress ("Love is a Many-Splendored Thing"), 90
December 17 - Dan O'Bannon, screenwriter ("Alien"), 63
December 18 - Connie Hines, actress (Carol Post on "Mister Ed"), 79
December 20 - Brittany Murphy, actress ("Clueless"), 32
December 20 - Arnold Stang, actor ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"), 91
December 25 - Vic Chesnutt, singer/songwriter, 45
December 26 - Knut Haugland, explorer (Kon-Tiki), 92
December 27 - Erik Gates, rocketry expert ("Mythbusters"), 47
December 29 - Steve Williams, aka "Dr. Death", pro wrestler, 49

Happy Holidays! Season's Greetings! etc.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I did. Got a bunch of great gifts and had a swell Christmas dinner with the family.

Sorry about the lack of posts. I'm still unpacking boxes and working a lot of OT. Hopefully after we get settled into the new house, I'll be posting more on a regular basis.

Happy New Year!

Christmas With Garth

This is a compilation of all of the Christmas songs by Garth Brooks that have appeared on various Billboard music charts. The list of songs come from the book Christmas in the Charts 1920-2004. If you want to know about any holiday song or artist that has ever appeared on a Billboard chart, this is the book for you. Last year I made a Bing Crosby compilation. You can still download it here.

Track Listing

1. The Old Man's Back In Town
2. Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy
3. White Christmas
4. Belleau Wood
5. Go Tell It On The Mountain
6. Sleigh Ride
7. Baby Jesus Is Born
8. It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year
9. (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays
10. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11. Call Me Claus
12. 'Zat You, Santa Claus?

Click The link below to download --

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A Merry Geoffrey Christmas

I got an early Christmas present from my wife. It's a Crosley Radio CR6001A Archiver USB Turntable. I can now rip old records to my computer and share them at my blog. Hurray! Here's my first share --

This is an album from 1975 called A Merry Geoffrey Christmas (WLP-302, Wonderland Records). It features four stories starring Toys "R" Us mascot Geoffrey Giraffe & his family.

I cleaned it up a little, but you can still here some "pops and clicks". Hopefully I'll get better at this as time goes on. Since I don't have a record size scanner, I had to scan the album cover in four parts and then piece it together. Unfortunately some of the scans came out darker than others and you can see where they connect :(

From the back of the album --

MEET GEOFFREY GIRAFFE & FAMILY

Geoffrey is an amateur inventor who works in a toy shop; he is a loving father and husband. Baby Gee, cute and perky, is always around to cheer daddy on. Gigi, a good wife and mother, is always there when needed. And, oh boy! is she ever needed by her adventurous family.

Geoffrey and his family live in a charming old lighthouse with ceilings just the right height for giraffes.

Side 1
1. Geoffrey's Christmas Tree
2. Geoffrey and His Christmas Snow Machine

Side 2
1. Geoffrey's Christmas Dream
2. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (According to Geoffrey)

Script and Lyrics by: Sid Wayne
Music and Production by: Ralph Stein
With the Jeff Wayne Orchestra & Chorus

Featuring:
Tom Cipolla as Geoffrey
Laine Roberts as Gigi
Pat Lordier as Baby Gee
Jim Dukas as Snowkenstein and others
Sid (Thumbs) Wayne as Santa Claus and others
Associate Producer: Sy Ziv

GEOFFREY'S CHRISTMAS TREE, will let you share in the trials and tribulations of how "not" to get something for nothing.
There's thrills and chills (no pun intended) galore as GEOFFREY AND HIS SNOW MACHINE, crank out "Snowkenstein", the snow monster.
GEOFFREY'S CHRISTMAS DREAM, takes you on an exciting trip into outer space as Geoffrey the Astronaut blasts off to save Santa Claus and Christmas from being lost to the world forever.
'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (According to Geoffrey), will charm and delight the listener with it's un-orthodox use of sound effects.

With the brilliant production and music of composer Ralph Stein to compliment the songs, and the professionalism of the first rate cast of characters, we honestly feel A MERRY GEOFFREY CHRISTMAS will be among your collector's items for your children's children to hear and enjoy.

Sid Wayne...who is one of America's top songwriters (having written everything from Elvis Presley to IT'S IMPOSSIBLE for Perry Como) adds a new dimension to his long list of credits with the writing of the script and lyrics for this long to be treasured and played throughout the year production of A MERRY GEOFFREY CHRISTMAS. A father of 2 girls and a boy himself, Sid knows how a parent's patience can be tried hearing the same innocuous stories and songs played over and over again. He feels Kids today, (of all ages) are too sophisticated to sit still for the "namby-pamby" records of years gone by..and we heartily agree.

Click the link below to download (link updated 7-7-12) --

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An Enterprising Christmas

Here's a Star Trek Christmas poem from the January 1982 issue of STARLOG --

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