June 21, 2005
Poor Mattie Fox...
Sometimes I think that the old "Rev. Dr." Fox should pick up a new animal for his patronage: Mattie Weasel has a great ring to it.
Yes, Rev. Dr. Weasel, tell me about the Technocosmic rave mass again...
Or not.
Anyway, look at these pictures from this bad in a giggly sort of way post on Mattie Fox's website. I have always noticed a similarity in mannerisms between Mattie Fox and the late Timothy Leary, but recently, as he gets older and more gaunt, he reminds me of someone else as well. Care to guess?
(subtract the hair).
Still don't get it?
"Pope Benedict, you big yellow cheese!"
Still no clue?
What if the Holy Father had a talking tiger as his pal?
If you still don't get it, you never will, until you read some old Captain Marvel comic books.
Posted by erik at June 21, 2005 4:00 PM | TrackBackre: the link (I don't know anything about Captain Marvel comics, I'm a girl!)
This has got to be my favorite part: Our plans were to meet the press and others on Wednesday, May 18 at 4 PM at the door of Castle Church in Wittenburg where Luther nailed his 95 theses some 500 years ago. First, however, we had to stop by the city hall and get official documents to allow us to perform this action. The officials limited us to one hour (4-5 PM) and we were to station ourselves far away from the door "in order to let the tourists be unemcumbered in taking photos of the door." After considerable persuasion offered by Anne, they relented to allow us to be "near the door." But we could not pound nails into the door which today, unlike Luther's day, is no longer wood but metal casting containing his 95 theses. No pounding on that door even if one had permission to do so!
What a loser. Nothing makes me laugh more than a panty waist pseudo-revolutionary asking permission to be a revolutionary. It's like a teen boy asking his mom and dad to please please please let him wear his new Che t-shirt to their country club get together. The whole scenario just screams "impotence."
Posted by: Jeanetta at June 24, 2005 9:20 AMI stand corrected, but he still looks like Andy Warhol.
Posted by: Franklin Jennings at June 22, 2005 10:08 AMActually, Captain Marvel was a Fawcett Comic; DC sued their sorry rear ends in the 1950's for imitating Superman; as part of the settlement DC acquired the publishing rights to the good Captain and his friends. DC left Captain Marvel in publishing limbo for about 25 years, then revived the title. By the time the title was revived, Marvel Comics had come into its own, along with THEIR version of a "Captain Marvel" (nee Mar-vell)and all the copy rights and title priveleges that implies. Accordingly, the DC and Marvel lawyers, agreed that both could use the character name, but that DC could not prominently feature the name "Captain Marvel" on the title. Hence, the revived DC comic was called SHAZAM! As a consequence there has been a lot of products (toys, tv cartoons, etc.) which seem to conflate the name Captain Marvel with the name Shazam.
Anyway, it would be complement Matt Fox to compare him to Dr. Sivanna. Fox strikes me more like Mr. Mind, only less effective.
SC
Missed your (-)the hair comment. My apologies.
Must. Read. More. Carefully.
Posted by: Franklin Jennings at June 21, 2005 4:55 PMLooks like Andy Warhol to me.
But seriously, Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana was bald. And Captain Marvel was a DC comic, not Marvel.
Shazam!
Posted by: Franklin Jennings at June 21, 2005 4:53 PM