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Japanese Monster Fans Come Out of Their Shells for Gamera
By David Moye - AOL NewsAs Japanese monsters go, Godzilla stands tall as both the first and the one that best defines this rubber-costumed creature genre. But there is a certain percentage of the fan base just as devoted to Gamera, the fire-breathing flying turtle who, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, starred in a series of films in which, like Godzilla, he fought a group of strange monsters with names like Gyaos, Viras, Guiron, Jiger and, last but not least, Zigra. "To me, Gamera was always a more substantial character than Godzilla," said Mark McLaughlin, a staunch supporter of the flying turtle. "He was more ...
A Neutron Bomb Primer: 5 Key Questions and Answers
By J. Richard - AOL News(Dec. 2) -- His legacy lives on. Physicist Samuel T. Cohen died this week, roughly 50 years after using pencil, paper and a slide rule he received for his 15th birthday to create the neutron bomb, the Los Angeles Times reported. A cousin of the conventional nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the neutron bomb has been called "the ultimate capitalist weapon" because it was designed to incinerate humans with massive amounts of radiation while sparing buildings and infrastructure. Since Cohen laid out the concept for the weapon in 1958, the neutron bomb has been reportedly ...
What Does Halloween Mean? Holiday Evolves With Time
By J. Richard - AOL News(Oct. 30) -- From apple bobbing to "The Simpsons" annual "Treehouse of Horror" episode, Halloween traditions are informed by a variety of religious and cultural influences. So it's no surprise that the holiday incites controversy every year as celebrants debate what Halloween means to them, a discussion that causes both tension and change. In a growing number of public schools, Fire Prevention Week is the new Halloween After receiving complaints from parents and teachers who believe the holiday has religious overtones, a number of public school systems have banned Halloween activities in the ...
The Simpsons are Lampooned (Unsuccessfully) on Their Own Show
By Alison Fairbrother - Politics DailyBritish graffiti artist and activist Banksy has directed a controversial opening sequence for the most recent episode of "The Simpsons," and it's a doozy. In this episode, "MoneyBART," the iconic couch gag sequence starts the way it has for more than 20 years, with the middle-class Simpsons family lined up on their tired orange sofa. But soon the image flickers and the viewer is taken on an extended tour of an underground sweatshop where lines of Asian women stencil images of the Simpsons onto sheets of paper while being watched by a male foreman. At the end of the line, one of the workers ...
Banksy Tags 'The Simpsons'
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Oct. 11) -- UPDATE, 5:13 p.m. Fox has removed Banksy's opening sequence from YouTube, according to TechCrunch. Street artist Banksy has created a name for himself by leaving his mark in unexpected places. Sunday night, the surprise locale was the title sequence of "The Simpsons," which under his direction took a dark turn into a sweatshop where hordes of workers, including child laborers, pen Simpsons animation sequences, stuff Bart Simpson dolls with kitten fur and punch holes in Simpsons DVDs using the horn of a chained and dying unicorn. (Watch it below.) The common response to the ...
Yabba Dabba Doo! 'The Flintstones' Turns 50
By Chris Epting - AOL News
(Sept. 30) -- Everyone's favorite modern Stone Age family and friends are celebrating their golden anniversary. "The Flintstones," America's first prime-time animated sitcom, first aired on ABC-TV on Sept. 30, 1960. For six years, the show almost everyone thought was an animated imitation of "The Honeymooners" entertained not just kids, but primarily adults. And that was the point of the Hanna-Barbera production -- to create a more adult-styled cartoon. It's a holiday so dear to so many that it has been celebrated with a "Google Doodle" on the search site's homepage. Everett Collection If ...
The Dugout: Homer at the (At Bat + Win Share / Secondary Average)
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsBill James, the creator of ULTRA Games like Skate or Die, will be making a guest appearance on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. I falsely credited him as that scary face coming out of my television to tell me about Defender of the Crown because the last thing a sports website needs is another God-forsaken post about sabermetrics. For those of you who don't know (and I'm guessing that means the people who ended up here by googling "pro wrestling" and clicking my name), sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence, resulting in a lot of really accurate calculations ...
Robotic Dinosaur Celebrates 20 Years of Chomping Cars
By David Moye - AOL News(April 5) -- Orson Welles once claimed a film set was the best train set a 12-year-old boy could ever have. These days, he'd get an argument from Mark Hays, who is admittedly biased. He's both one of the developers and one of the pilots of Robosaurus, a 40-foot-tall robot styled after a Tyrannosaurus Rex that travels around the U.S. and occasionally to Australia to burn cars to a crisp with its fiery breath and chomp them to bits with 24,000 pounds of bite force after lifting them up to its face with hydraulically powered arms. Greg Wood, AFP / Getty Images Robosaurus, a fire-breathing, ...
Marge Simpson Does Playboy (Does Homer Know?)
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAnd does he love it? Or does he, after drooling for a moment and stuffing another donut in his mouth, suddenly smack his head and exclaim, "D'oh!" as he realizes some 2.6-million other readers would be able to ogle what had been for his eyes only? Mayhem ensues, but all ends well. Or at least that's the way creator Matt Groening would script a typical plot of "The Simpsons," the beloved animated sitcom that is entering its 20th season on Fox. But some Christians don't see anything redeeming about Marge's decision to appear on the November cover of Playboy, and in a two-page centerfold spread. ...
What Women Can Learn From Malibu Stacy
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics Daily"Math class is tough," a talking Barbie doll once reminded little girls. ...
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