Author: Jonathan Kieran
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Addictively Asinine Kid-Kibble of Yore! BOO BERRY Cereal Takes All Honors
TODAY’S DUBIOUS HONOREE: BOO BERRY CEREAL (General Mills) RUDIMENTARY ANALYSIS: As one of a trilogy of “monster-themed” cereals introduced by General Mills in the mid-1970s (along with Frankenberry and Count Chocula) Boo Berry was touted by its makers as “the first cereal to ever taste like blueberries.”…
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New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Where YOU Are Always on the Menu!
As a former longtime citizen of St. Augustine just up the highway, I can say that even the people in my hometown have long been aware that the waters off New Smyrna Beach have always been extra “sharky.” Whatever odd…
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What Am I UP To? Allow Me …
WHULL, at present I have six major book projects “in the hopper,” as it were, many of them lavishly illustrated and all of them in various stages of completion or near-completion. I am referring to this fecund period as the…
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Great White Screaming And Biting and Sundry
HERE is some sharky footage you can sink your own teeth into. [Jonathan is busy writing and illustrating and finishing a whole slew of projects in preparation for upcoming major releases. Don’t expect a helluva lot of bloggin’ to get…
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Cinema de Puque! Jonny’s Hall of Lame Presents …
JONNY’S RETRO-CINEMA HALL OF LAME presents TODAY’S DUBIOUS HONOREE: VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS (1965) GUILTY OF VEHICULAR FANSLAUGHTER: Director Bert Gordon with “Stars” Beau Bridges, Tommy Kirk, Joy Harmon, Johnny Crawford, Ron Howard, Robert Random, Toni Basil, Vicki London, and other Assorted Aces…
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Cult Movies We Adore! Buckle-Up for GALAXY QUEST
TODAY’S ILLUSTRIOUS HONOREE: GALAXY QUEST (1999)DreamWorks. Posted by JONATHAN KIERAN You won’t find a more hysterically funny –or affectionate– send-up of Sci-Fi and Sci-Fi Fandom! GUILTY OF VEHICULAR FANSLAUGHTER: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, etc. RUDIMENTARY ANALYSIS: Few contemporary satirical films…
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Trains, Planes, and Pachyderms
Frankly, I did not know there were enough elephants remaining in the Northeast of Anywhere to merit an Artificial Intelligence system that alerts oncoming trains to the presence of a pachyderm crossing a railroad track. Is this a good sign…
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Dark Moments in Fundie History
by Jonathan Kieran AUGUST 19th, 1972 After failing miserably as the harmonizing ‘Bible Brothers’ of the mid-1960s, no one could have foreseen just how far Rob, Darryl, and Buddy Jenkins would “go” to sneak into the competitive world of Pentecostal performing.…
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Wildlife Waging War on Old Ladies?
Between grannies getting grabbed by gators in South Carolina and THIS POOR OLD LADY being nibbled by a shark with “dirty green teeth” (whuh?), I have a sneaking suspicion that Nature has a bone to pick with elderly females. (No…
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And This, My Friends, Is Why …
… Great White Sharks grow so big, Bad, and BOSSY! Eat that whale blubber, Mama! [Look for Jonathan Kieran’s fabulous new—as yet untitled—book of hundreds of witty, cynical, zeitgeist-rocking, and knee-slappingly clever cartoons of Pure Smartassery in 2024! Stay tuned…
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