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New pulp foo!
Mar. 1st, 2002 03:19 pmThat's right, I've updated the ever-popular Pulp Survival List, with something like fifteen or twenty new tips (I lost count). Some are admittedly inspired by my current habit of watching Hong Kong action movies rather than straight pulp, but I think even Indiana Jones would agree with 'em, so have a look. I've also added links to a couple of scribbles on the Pens Gallery page, but bear in mind I did 'em while watching a video in class and coloured 'em in using glitter gel pens. We're talking arthritic monkey level of skill here.
In other news, eBay has paid off handsomely once again. Got me a bright shiny five-pack of Stephen Chow movies on VCD today - this is the gentleman responsible for Shaolin Soccer. I paid $25.99 for the whole shebang plus shipping and handling. I'm a happy camper, all right.
Might be more later, might not, I dunno. Still got me some work to do today... Oh yeah. Question for those of you who might ever have seen these things. I walked past a stall in the mall today that was selling all kinds of Asian doodads - Chinese, Japanese, Indian, you name it - for home and office decoration. Lotta redstone dragons and bronze-looking Hindu gods, you know the deal... anyway, as I started looking the stall over, I spotted 'em. The Shaolin Sunglasses Babies.
I don't know what the hell these things are, but I've seen 'em for sale several places. They're little ceramic or plastic (I've never checked) figurines about an inch, maybe two inches high. They depict what look like children of some kind, all dressed in the same martial arts attire. Nearly all of them are bald or have that one little blob of hair in the back that crops up on paintings of ancient Egyptian kids, too. They're in different martial-looking postures - I'm guessing kung fu, but we're talking figurines less than two inches high, I'm not gonna stand there long enough to figure it out. And a bunch of them are wearing dark glasses. Little round-lensed things, usually. There's no sign next to 'em, not even when they're all for sale in a box of eight or ten - there's just these surreal little kids doing weird things in martial-arts-movie clothes, and wearing sunglasses. What the heck are they? Anyone?
Today's pulp survival tip is #154: Questions like 'who's the toughest man in this bar' are meant to be answered by someone. See to it that this person is not you.
In other news, eBay has paid off handsomely once again. Got me a bright shiny five-pack of Stephen Chow movies on VCD today - this is the gentleman responsible for Shaolin Soccer. I paid $25.99 for the whole shebang plus shipping and handling. I'm a happy camper, all right.
Might be more later, might not, I dunno. Still got me some work to do today... Oh yeah. Question for those of you who might ever have seen these things. I walked past a stall in the mall today that was selling all kinds of Asian doodads - Chinese, Japanese, Indian, you name it - for home and office decoration. Lotta redstone dragons and bronze-looking Hindu gods, you know the deal... anyway, as I started looking the stall over, I spotted 'em. The Shaolin Sunglasses Babies.
I don't know what the hell these things are, but I've seen 'em for sale several places. They're little ceramic or plastic (I've never checked) figurines about an inch, maybe two inches high. They depict what look like children of some kind, all dressed in the same martial arts attire. Nearly all of them are bald or have that one little blob of hair in the back that crops up on paintings of ancient Egyptian kids, too. They're in different martial-looking postures - I'm guessing kung fu, but we're talking figurines less than two inches high, I'm not gonna stand there long enough to figure it out. And a bunch of them are wearing dark glasses. Little round-lensed things, usually. There's no sign next to 'em, not even when they're all for sale in a box of eight or ten - there's just these surreal little kids doing weird things in martial-arts-movie clothes, and wearing sunglasses. What the heck are they? Anyone?
Today's pulp survival tip is #154: Questions like 'who's the toughest man in this bar' are meant to be answered by someone. See to it that this person is not you.
