Category Archives: the mindlab

Freedom Stick

This advertisement is from the Marvel comic Excalibur #1, published in October of 1988. I remember another controller like this liscenced by Nintendo, but I do not remember the Camerica wireless version. The Freedom Stick was approved by the U.S. National Video Game Team. I wasn’t aware we had one… but whatever. In this video Donn might be using the Freedom Stick with his Gradius tip.

Freedom Stick

Seal of Approval

LJ’s Trip, Episode 3 — The Horrible Houdini

In Episode 3 of LJ’s Trip, the show’s host, LJ, travels or “trips” back to witness master escapologist Harry Houdini’s final death-defying act. Instead of playing the respectful peanut chomping observer, LJ, played by New York actor Joel Stigliano, engages in footsie sexy time with the lovely Miss Kitty Pinchbottom and stops Houdini’s performance dead by killing him! It was just an episode ago that LJ was seducing cavewomen with his suave come-ons such as, “I like your hair,” and “You’re pretty,” and now he’s added grisly, brutal murder to the list!

The episode takes place in a stylish Steampunk universe where Gray makes a cameo as a Steampunk clock repairman. Episode 3’s steamy design was created by Brunson from his home which was infested by a colony of bats at the time. Not unlike a certain Bruce Wayne, Brunson relied on imaginary wealth, black spray paint, and Morgan Freeman to create his inspired collection.

LJ’s Trip ep 3 – The Horrible Houdini from Matt Brunson on Vimeo.

Bugs

Dear Dr. William Grogan:

Hello, how are you, we have new news, we now have the pleasure to dedicate a new species named Downeshelea grogani, for your super work Ceratopogonidae of the world, with many happy to honor your important work in the biting midges systematic as you were the creator of the genus.

Mis mejores deseos.

Herón Huerta. Ok

A new species and new records of Downeshelea Wirth & Grogan in Neotropical Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Translation: There is yet another bug that shares my last name.