Here’s an interesting observation from Reddit: there are only about two weeks between when the moment pictured below takes place…
…and this one:
There’s a saying:
There are decades where nothing happens, and then there are weeks where decades happen.
Some people say the line is one of Lenin’s, but there’s been some debate about that.
Part of growing up is realizing that there were certain things you shouldn’t have seen at such a young age. Akira wasn’t one of them, as I was a university student when it came out. I know a number of people who may have watched it a little too early. You never forget your first body horror!
Mind you, Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend came out a year later. I had no idea what I was getting into, and I remember needing a few slugs of bourbon after that one!
(The art is by Amos Stillwell — go check out his Instagram!)
Whoever came up with the slogan for Independent Health clearly didn’t watch any classic Star Trek, because the ways they retired “red shirts” on that show were horrifying…
By the way, if you haven’t yet read John Scalzi’s Redshirts, or better yet, listened to the audiobook version read by Wil Wheaton, do it!
The video below has been making the internet rounds, but I wanted to make sure you saw it — two of the 1970s’ greatest cultural creations: AC/DC and Star Wars, with scenes from the attack on the Death Star from Episode IV and Thunderstruck from AC/DC’s 1990 album, The Razor’s Edge!
This video is only the latest of a long series of classic rock/Star Wars mash-ups…
But wow, Thunderstruck’s a favorite…
I’ll close with one of my favorites, Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans, a parody of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:
“A wizard never bails, nor does he wipe out. He shreds precisely as he means to.”