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I am the last person who should wear a crop, but I would buy one.
That photo makes Matt look like Thurman Merman if he slimmed down and went to college.
Peter is doing some important work. Very good Autopian stuff right there.
Hmmm, that would go pretty well my jorts, I think
Max Headroom was great. Totally predicted the no cameraman content creator and “blipverts” very short ads.
Apropos of nothing in particular, you know that a media outlet like The Autopiian could legitimately write off a hair stylist as a business expense.
Unless it’s part of your branding-which I as an individual who has been cutting my own hair since 1979 can totally understand.
Okay, time for a flash membership drive.
And if 100 people sign up/upgrade, David has to wear the half shirt for a minimum of 20 minutes and one group photo at the wedding reception.
I’d cancel my membership, just so I could sign up again and be counted towards the 100!
Stretch goal: if 200 join, Adrian shows up to the wedding, too, wears the shirt, appears in a group photo.
A few of us should bunch together and do a kickstarter. We can help David raise much more that way wearing the half shirt or sleeping in weird places.
Isn’t the a likelihood of sunny weather in soCal ? Oh, I’m thinking of vampires not goths, he’ll be fine.
Ha ha there’s NO way that is ever, ever happening…Adrian would never wear that…that’s what makes it so funny!
Hell, 100 members and Matt gets a perm would work too.
I don’t have enough hair for a perm…OH you meant Hardigree! Never mind, as you were.
Slackers
time to start sending Peter unsolicited Puffalump pictures for………….use
Do it: I miss the Puffalump photobombings
They are very TOSSABL lil’ guys!
Max Headroom was definitely one of those “synonymous with the ’80s” things that everyone knows about but few actually experienced.
The original tv movie and them the short-lived show were amazing (perhaps one of the first-ever depictions of a cyberpunk world), but the weird and out-of-nowhere Coke ad campaign is the reason it briefly became a thing.
I remember keeping a limited edition New Coke can with him on it b/c yeah… C-c-c-c-catch the wave!
I loved Max Headroom when it came out in ’86(?) It was such a unique show for its time. I rewatched the whole series over the pandemic years (only 2 8-episode seasons, available for free on the Internet Archives). It is really amazing how accurate aspects of the show were. In 1986, they nailed constant access/addiction to media, internet connected everything, a consumerism-focused cashless society, constant surveillance, artificial intelligence, increased income disparity and homelessness, and mega-corporations that provide everything. Just replace the networks with social media outlets and ratings wars with competing for followers and the story lines would be timely today.
The whole thing was very Terry Gilliam, in the best of ways. I was really impressed when I found out that almost all of it was done with practical effects and that Matt Frewer would spend hours getting into the makeup to do Max.
And I still think of blipverts when I’m blasted with internet ads.
Back when CGI was so expensive that people would do the craziest things for fake CGI
Oh Yeah, I watched every episode. The only possibly more ’80’s is Like a Virgin.
20 Minutes into the Future!
“You know how we said ‘No Future’? Well. This is it.”
>If you want to know what’s going on in this photo
I doubt the real story is anything close to what my mind has made up.
Please sir, I want some more (I always thought Oliver! was a Christmas movie).