Monthly Archives: August 2007

Cleaning Up this Town

Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 by Robert Hood

A friend came across this Ultraman-inspired Japanese ad from 1971, in which a heroic mum (or sister?) takes on a dirt-producing giant monster. There seems to be several versions in one, getting progressively longer: Japanese Vacuum Cleaner Commercial

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There once was a monster named….

Posted on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 by Robert Hood

There once was a monster named Rumsmag Who was known as an evil yet glum dag. He would wear waist-high pants And keep people like ants On the muck in the back of his bumbag. To celebrate the imminent appearance … Continue reading →

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Your comments are no longer being dumped!

Posted on Saturday, August 4, 2007 by Robert Hood

Right from the inception of Undead Backbrain, I’d been having trouble with the comment function. It seemed to be treating many legit messages as spam, sometimes burying comments so deep in the cyber-dump, I couldn’t bring them back from the … Continue reading →

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Arghh! Giant serpents!

Posted on Friday, August 3, 2007 by Robert Hood

This just opened in Korea — to a good box-office response, it is said. In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the trailer:

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Giantkiller

Posted on Friday, August 3, 2007 by Robert Hood

Giantkiller by Dan Brereton is a graphic novel about a world overrun by giant monsters. These daikaiju have entered our reality through a spatial tear caused by volcanic activity in an ecologically turbulent area of California — an effect that … Continue reading →

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