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Jack Mangan’s Deadpan #138: Garden State Parkway North
promo – Theme and Variations (http://www.themeandvariationsanthology.com/)
imag1narynumber with the contents of his fridge
Greasy Nipples by:
Vanamonde (first comment of the week)
Cj
DJ Bunny
reaper
Lejon (Some Guy from Chandler)
JohnBoze
The Energizer Bunny has a few words for Paul Maki
Amy Bowen talks about special guest for Questors Effpiem
Jack gives Haiku readings
Johnny Null – Extermination
Justa J0e with music moments of note
Jack Mangan – Nowhere in Jersey is Safe pt. 3
More contents of imag1narynumber’s fridge
The Energizer Bunny continues her thoughts of World Con
Next DeadPan is the start of the Flash in the Pan
Next Deadpanmmmmmm meetup – March? 4th anniversary of Deadpan.
Outro music mashup – The Photon Meters
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I’m talking to myself.
I had kinda written off Pee Wee for his child porn charges. . . (really, who cares about his hilarious theater incident?) – but he’s since stated pretty vehemently that he has no sexual interest in children, that he didn’t have kiddy porn.
Maybe he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Mreh? I didn’t know anything about that. Searching through Google News, I can find info on the charges in 2001, but nothing about a conviction or deal or anything really.
No wait, the charge was dropped and he plead to obscenity.
That’s sad. I’m not sure if I can feel relieved that the best death scene EVAR is untainted. Maybe.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/583747371.html?dids=583747371:583747371&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+20%2C+2004&author=Christiana+Sciaudone&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Los+Angeles%3B+Actor+Paul+Reubens+Pleads+Guilty+to+Obscenity+Charge%3B+The+'Pee-wee+Herman'+television+star+is+fined+and+put+on+three+years'+informal+probation.&pqatl=google
Woot – got the bubble kit for boy that wifeling told me to get when it was on kids.woot the other day. It was sold out before I actually got the chance too.
Saving face the wootoff way.
Morning Pan, TI gets heavy with calculator hackers:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/23/texas_instruments_calculator_hacking/
I don’t understand what benefit TI has in cracking down on this. Don’t highly modifiable device generally sell better? Or am I just hanging around with the wrong crowd?
And it isn’t like the calculators have wifi and could get infected by poisonOSes. ? Poo on TI.
Go go Casio.
And good morning to ya, Van. Welcome to this shiny Wednesday. The week will be half over today.
Boo on TI.
Wow, given the proliferation of laptops and handheld devices that can double as calculators AND run custom software applications wwithout the need of a hack … I’m amazed that TI can still sell enough calculators to warrent manufacturing them.
Add that to the current economic situation and I’d say TI ought to just be glad that ANYONE is interested in buying there product and should stop bitching about what a small group of their dwindling customer base wants to do with it.
As much as I loved the previous Pee-Wee Herman stuff, I don’t think even Paul Reubens can pull off that character at age 55. Let’s leave Pee-Wee as a great memory instead of one that we’re sad to see beaten into the ground.
When Reubens was arrested, was Pee-Wee’s Pee-Wee Wee, or Un-Wee? Maybe some things are best left to the unknown.
Good morning, DP!
CF: a fire. It’s freakin’ winter here.
EssBee: I have to close the windows and put the AC on again for the first time in a few weeks. A few days ago, we had a frost. Today, UGH.
“Pee-Wee” Herman – as you’ve never seen him before.
http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Dave-Herman-19720
NS: sounds like Colorado weather!
As I recall, the particulars in Pee Wee’s big porn adventure was that he had a very large, vintage porn collection. We’re talking “turn of the century”, very early 1900′s type stuff. Some of it bought in auction lots from larger collections.
For reasons that were never clear to me, the local D.A. (the same one who prosecuted him for wanking in a porn theatre maybe ??) raided his home, confiscated the collection and after going through it all – found a nearly, century old book that had re-enactments of the original Greek Olympics. This included pictures of young men, probably teens, wrestling (no, not a euphamism … they were actually wrestling). Of course as we all know, the original Olympiads competed in the nude. Those whacky Greeks!.
This is probably why the “child pornography” charges against him were eventually dropped. There was very little content in his collection that included under aged people and given that all those involved in making the images had been dead for quite some time it was going to be very difficult to prove the ages of the boys in those wrestling scenes. There was also a good chance that the defense could make an argument that the vintage and rarity of this stuff could actually be classified it as art.
Sooooo, while Paul Reubens is clearly not a “normal” character (and quite possibly IS a visitor from another planet who has been stranded here) … if it makes you feel any better about him, the charges against him did not involve him having skanky pictures of kids.
… PLUS, if it had gone to trial he would have probably just kept telling the prosecutor, “I know you are but what am I ” ?
I want jJ’s memory. Crap, I can barely recall what I had for dinner yesterday.
No, wait, I -can’t- recall what I had yesterday.
… and yet half the time, I can’t recall my own phone number!
I think the details stuck with me because;
(a) I liked his Pee Wee characture a lot and was really disappointed in Reubens’ penchant for self destruction.
(b) The very “under reported” outcome of that case which really seemed to have the stench of an over zealous District attorney who was “out to get” Reubens.
Everyone wants a piece of JOe.
Nomad Scry: Thanks for the laugh. Made for a great visual.
Doesn’t TI have a long and glorious history of shooting themselves in the foot? F’ ‘em.
Dan and I have always enjoyed the Pee Wee stuff, but after seeing him on Leno last night, I have to agree with UsedHair. Reubens looks old. They had to keep pulling the camera back. The voice is still there, but his responses were clearly setup and seemed canned.
I don’t know if I’m disappointed or just a little demystified. I’ll always love his movies… but….
“But what? Everyone I know has a big but. C’mon Simone, let’s talk about your big but.”
First off, really not work/child friendly. That being said, this is friggin’ brilliant. Yet another example of the “new media” kicking ass. IMO vastly superior to 99% of the drek the mainstream commercial entities put out.
http://therewillbebrawl.com/episodes.php
Oh, and Good Morning, Everyone!
Happy Hump Day. (it is Wednesday right?)
So true:
http://gizmodo.com/5364205/the-truth-part-ii-dear-readers
Cj – How are you celebrating Hump Day?
JN – I will have to look at that later can’t get there from work. This sucks.
ditto: I don’t think I could agree with the venn diagram more
Dr Strangelove eat your heart out:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=all
A list of somewhat iTunes alternatives: http://alternativeto.net/desktop/sharepod/
Wolf,
I’m gonna celebrate the all that junk inside my trunk…
What you gon’ do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps.
I’ve been playing around with:
http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Index.dt
I sent a friend a song from my encrypted iTunes library and she played it back fine.
CP: Mississippi Moon — Too Slim & The Taildraggers
Vendetti talks about the film adaptation of “The Surrogates”. I’m looking forward to this one.
http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/09/21/interview-with-robert-venditti-the-surrogates/
Cj – I’ll be in my bunk.
CP: Heavens to Purgatory — The Most Serene Republic
ditto, when I went and saw District 9, The Surrogates preview played and I thought it looked great!
I’m very much looking forward to the movie. I’ll have to consume the graphic novel first. It’ll help me be more critical towards the film.
It does seem like Pee Wee is constantly struggling to repair his image.
It’s like he’s unraveling a sweater, but someone keeps knitting. . . a-ha-hand knitting. . . a-ha-hand knitting. . . a-ha-hand knitting. . .
I think I’ll read the GN after I see the movie.
Having found a way to use that line, I think Jack gets to go home for the day.
CP: Snow in June — The Northern Pikes
After the Leno show Dan says to me, “It’ll probably take us a while to get Big Top Pee Wee from Netflix now… So I showed him our e-mail box:
“Big Top Pee-Wee
Sent to: Daniel
Arriving on or around: Wednesday, Sep 23, 2009″
Because I’m faster than fast! (I’d put it at the top of the queue earlier this week like I’m psychic or something!)
Gods, have you ever seen Big Top Pee-Wee?
(I love that 2 of today’s conversation topics have been Pee Wee Herman and thermonuclear armageddon)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! He said the word! “Armageddon”! Come on, Chairy, scream!
Did a duck just drop from the ceiling?
Did you expect anything less?
CP: Intermittently — Barenaked Ladies
Yes. I’ve seen Big Top Pee Wee several times.
What are you trying to say? :)
I can’t say. I watched about five or ten minutes of one of his shows.
w00t! Officially caught up on my podcasts.
CP: That Voice Again — Peter Gabriel
http://www.oddee.com/item_96582.aspx
Neat.
CP: You’re No Good — Sons of Freedom
CP: Keep Yourself Alive — Queen
Finally caught up on my podcasts from the 3 days that I was forced to miss.
So Not only is Jonathan Frakes going to be at Phx Comicon, but his wife, Genie Francis, whom I adore will also be there!
Bonus win for me today!
I sure hope Jonathan Frakes doesn’t listen to LLAP. . . .
That reminds me. We really need to get the new episode online. We recorded this weekend, but this week has been so crazy busy, it’s still just sitting in the can waiting to be posted.
………..tumblewednesday………
CW: Big Top Pee Wee
ZP’s latest review:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/941-Beatles-Rock-Band-and-Guitar-Hero-5
I’m talking to this person and I can’t help feeling there is a door that we both want to walk through, but can’t admit to the other person that we want to walk through that door.
…and on that load of old cobblers I’ll say night pan.
CW: X’amd ep 4
Just admit it, Van!!
Cool steampunk sculptures and jewelry:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5785678
A lil pricey for me, though (ie, you can’t put in a dollar and move the claw around to try and pick it up)
Van – What does “load of old cobblers” mean? I thought a cobbler was an apple, and a load of old apples … yeah, I’m not getting it.
EssBee – Colorado weather. Or Chicago. Only been there once but the temp shifted about 50 degrees, one day to the next. Crazy.
I like the idea that the ultimate doomsday machine is actually a doomsday deterrent. My ancient survival instincts tell me something is fishy about the article though, and I tend to think it is more likely that the blueprints got drawn out and then the project was forgotten. That’s why no one knows about it.
Or it’s just a bunch of scifi goodness.