[via Making Light] Take Santa Claus and cover him in the style of the introduction to the new Battlestar Galactica series and you get this…
By the bye, I am incredibly behind on my Battlestar Galactica viewing. “How far behind?” you might ask, to which I would answer “Well, I saw all of season one, and that’s about it.” Luckily, I’m on holiday this Friday and don’t go back to work until Tuesday, January 2nd.
Yesterday, we had a 1980’s television high-tech hero save Christmas; today, let’s go back a decade farther and enjoy the Christmas-saving adventures of the 1970’s favourite high-tech hero: Colonel Steve Austin, better known as The Six Million Dollar Man!
In today’s offering, I’ve got two of four recordings of Steve Austin’s Christmas adventures. The first is The Toymaker, in which Steve thwarts the Russkies from getting their paws on a top-secret device. The second is the Kris Kringle Caper, Steve becomes a department store Santa Claus to thwart an espionage ring. What adventures!
The voice work is typical for a radio play; the guy playing th epart of Steve Austin sounds more like Jon Stewart doing his impression of George W. Bush. As for the “bionic” sound effects that were one of the show’s trademarks, they apparently couldn’t get their paws on the ones used on the TV series, so they came up with their own.
Here are the sound files:
I’ll post the other two files tomorrow! Enjoy!
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Drummond Sweater company isn’t around any more, what with ads like this (click the ad below to see it at full size):
Click the ad to see it at full size. Thanks to Miss Fipi Lele and deepdisco for the picture.
The copy reads like something that the Mullah who called unveiled women “uncovered meat” would have written, had he gone into advertising:
Men are better than women! Indoors, women are useful — even pleasant. On a mountain, they are something of a drag. So don’t go hauling them up a cliff just to show off your Drummond climbing sweaters. No need to. These pullovers look great anywhere. On the level!
“Indoors, women are useful,” the ad copy may read, but looking at the two guys in the ad, I don’t think they have any use for women, nudge nudge wink wink.
[via Colby Cosh] I think Colby put it very well when he wrote:
Do Health Canada and Cancer Care Ontario hate tobacco? Of course they do. But when questions of cultural relativism enter the picture, it turns out there’s tobacco, and then there’s tobacco.
Here’s the site to which he was referring:
Christian fundies aren’t the only ones on the stupid side of the religious-vs-science tussle. Click the picture to visit the site.
Like other long-standing religious traditions such as witch-burning and human sacrifice, there’s no health upside to tobacco. Last time I checked, anything that can get you sick just by being in fields of it is a poison. This appears to be one of those cases where the facts come up against the good intentions of “we’re white, we’re straight and we’re sorry” and lose.
What’s Christmas without a little Cheech and Chong? Do it up East L.A.-style with their routine, Santa Claus and His Old Lady.
Cheech and Chong – Santa Claus and His Old Lady (8.8 MB MP3)
For tonight, the second night of the Jewsih festival of lights, a little indie rock courtesy of a fella named Matthew “Matthewmatic” Shultz: Hanukkah’s On, a cute little rocker that features lyrics like “I’ll be mackin’ on my baby like a Maccabee“.
Matthewmatic – Hannukah’s On (1.5 MB MP3)