The Retronaut

I love this picture – click here to visit the artist’s website and get the key!  (via You Fail)

There has been no official confirmation yet, but various sources (including the New York Post) are reporting that Mike Judge and MTV are in the process of bringing Beavis and Butthead back to our TV screens.  The show’s format is supposed to remain the same as in the previous incarnation, only with the duo commenting [...]

One of today’s tweets from Roger Ebert notes that it is legendary comedian Milton Berle’s birthday.   It’s a kind of shame that if Berle’s name comes up in popular culture these days, it usually involves a reference to his reputed giant dong. Berle earned the moniker “Mr. Television” in the early ’50s, and for good [...]

It’s just as well – this probably would have been too much awesome for me to handle. (via The Brave and the Bold: The Lost Issues)

Last night Ms. Retronaut and I watched 1995′s Empire Records, the story of  one of the last  independent record superstores (seriously, the place is as big as any of the old Tower Records or Virgin Megastores) and its impending takeover by MusicTown, the personification of “the Man” for the purposes of the narrative.  It also [...]

Greetings inhabitants of Planet Earth, I am the Retronaut, broadcasting to you from deep within our collective pop culture consciousness.¹ I float freely among the artistic output of the past 60 years, randomly arriving a la Dr. Sam Beckett at particular moments of greatness (or, just as often, not-so-greatness) in television, film, music, comic books, [...]