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My name is Erik Mallinson. I draw pictures, make music, and some other stuff. I like playing the ‘ukulele, riding my scooter around Boston, and playing board games.
Follow me on Twitter (@erima) if you’re into that sort of thing.
You might also check out my illustration and music studio (@gravel).
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May30
For the past few days I’ve been trying to remember an arcade game that I played when I should have been bowling in my Saturday morning bowling league circa 1990–1991.I finally figured out that it’s Magic Sword!
I haven’t thought about this game in 19 years… I remember dumping quarters into this machine week after week and finally, after spending all of my allowance (which I received that morning), I was at the last level. I then ran out of quarters and some little shit continued my game.
This is an amazing poster design. No watching of LOST is required to get the idea behind it.
via fuckyeahlost
Pet peeve: Tumblr notifications don’t contain any details. This person is following me, or one of my many Tumblr groups I am in. Currently I have to log in and sift through the different groups to figure out which one it is.
May28
I had been reading the Harry Potter books and was intrigued by the idea of being a naturalist. So when we visited the Harvard Museum of Natural History I brought my notebook.
In retrospect I wish I drew the stick it was mounted to.
May27
Gathering, Shindig, or Hootenanny?
- OZ: We should figure out what kinda deal this is. I mean, is it a-a gathering, a shindig or a hootenanny?
- CORDELIA: What's the difference?
- OZ: Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, (Cordelia smiles) less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage; and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
- XANDER: Well, I hate brie.
Hobbit Meals: Eat smaller, more frequent meals.
Why a Paper System?: I decided to jot down my reasons for making a paper system of organization, before I forgot.
May26
According to Wikipedia’s entry on Zero Hour! the Zuckers bought the rights to the film so they could use the dialog verbatim.
Airplane vs. Zero Hour (widescreen) (via flipflomas)
Proves the fact that the classic film comedy Airplane was a shot by shot send-up of the serious 1957 film, Zero Hour.
There are many cases like this in film. For instance, the 1989 movie Heathers has many shots and plot points with the 1976 film Massacre at Central High.
Just further proof that few ideas are truly original, especially in Hollywood.
Think of it like an Amish digital system.
May25
Today is Towel Day!→
Next year I will not forget about Towel Day. Unless it’s already too late and I am caught towel–less.
Don’t forget your Towel!
“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”RIP Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
