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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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Fiction? It’s ALL Fiction, Honey
Yes indeed. Hopes for the publication of quality American fiction are in fine hands. Indisputably. [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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Family Updates Status of Aussie Great White Shark Victim Toby Begg
I follow ALL shark attacks and significant shark “encounters” because I’ve been a shark FREAK since age six, when my grandparents took me to an aquarium in Niagara falls and one of the exhibits happened to have a couple of…
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I Can Vouch For All Twenty of These St. Augustine Thrills and More, Baby!
It has admittedly been quite awhile since I visited my hometown of St. Augustine, Florida, but my transformed California heart has never been terribly far from those coquina-shell beaches, the beguiling side-streets that lead to unexpected delights, and the stunning…