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Happy friday.

okay… here’s a little explanation.

This came up at work (thanks to me of course), so I figured I’d check youtube to see if it was available. It is. So I’m sharing it with you.

yes!

I’m about to do some Popeye and Spinach. The big iron fueled freak-out. When I pop open that can, the nutrients will jack me up to superhuman proportions.

Metaphorically, of course.

That obscure remark aside, I really enjoyed this Popeye cartoon back in the day, maybe you will too:

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

part 1

part 2

This video for Coconut Records (Jason Schwarztman) “West Coast” featuring the inimitable Mark Gonzales.

More on the background can be found here*: PAPERMAG: WORD UP!: Jason Schwartzman Mashes Mark Gonzales

*and probably elsewhere on the net, I’m too busy to fully research today.

[edited to add:] The album is on emusic. Saved for later.

It’s been a while since I posted a skateboarding video. *

*inspired by a recent MeFi post on Yeah Right!

14 kinds of awesome.

This finale is amongst the best action pieces ever put on film. Sammo here is at his masterful best. The way he uses the camera to enhance the action in this sequence is something people should be studying heavily before they make an action movie. Most directors these days work AGAINST the action, obscuring it with any number of ill-advised techniques.

This is how it should be done…

Hopefully this will be fixed by the time you click this, but the awkward layout on this page makes me want to start fixing things for free:

React | Legends of Style

The weird text wrap on my signature image makes the CSS geek in me a little bit insane. Float it or something…

I don’t want to sound like I don’t appreciate it. I do appreciate the page and the links* and I generally love the LOS style folks. I’m just more and more sensitive to these sort of things as time goes on.

On a totally unrelated note, I just found out that Patty Donahue of The Waitresses (I Know What Boys Like) died of cancer in 1996. Something about that seems wrong to me. Anyone responsible for a song that memorable deserves to die of old age. Know what I mean?

*I love links to my site. Links to my site make me happy. I just had a birthday. Why don’t you all link to me to make up for the fact that I’m fucking old. That way, while I might be budding a George Clooneyesque head of salt and pepper hair at least I’ll have a healthy Google Page Rank (currently stuck at 4, in case you were wondering.)

Speaking of Google PageRank, using Google’s webmaster tools they tell me that the highest ranked page on my site is my movies page. The thing is, using the Google Toolbar, I only get the one number, no matter what page I visit. So if there’s any difference between my movies page and any other page on my site I’m not sure what it might be. Sounds like I might have to dive into more of the SEO world to get the straight dope on that one.

I’m all over the place tonight. Just to prove it, here’s a painting I saw in London:

Was that random enough?