Forbidden Slap

Points of online interest, and me pointing to them. Enjoy.

• Famous art redone in the style of The Simpsons.
• Entertainment Weekly’s Doc Jensen explains some hypothetical subtext to Lost — in particular, the various appearances of Pierre Chang (a.k.a. Dr. Marvin Candle, Dr. Mark Wickmund, and Dr. Edgar Halliwax).
• From Sanam, the story of Carl Tanzler, or as she called him, “the boyfriend of the year.”
• How to hallucinate without using drugs.
• Sega trademarks the term “TOY-LETS.”
• A list of stuff fictional characters would leave at my apartment if we broke up. (But not me — the girl who wrote it.)
• Scriball — an insanely addicting online game. (via Neatorama)
• What could have been: the nixed neighbor to Disneyland’s Main Street USA, Disney's Chinatown.
• Why Johnny Hart — cartoonist behind strips B.C. and The Wizard of Id — actually doesn’t completely suck, according to John K.
• Always one to look out for our best interest, the Pop warns against obsessive Facebook use.
• Proof that change truly has come: Japanese people learning English by listening to Obama's speech.
  

And, for your viewing pleasure, observe this: the first-ever television appearance of the X-Men, on a Spanish-dubbed episode of the old Namor the Submariner cartoon. (I found it here, in reference to a new X-Men cartoon.

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