Back in MY day, during the summer, lounging teenagers would maybe steal an empty toilet paper roll (a “goodle“) and a scrap of tinfoil to make a pipe, then sneak off to smoke pot.
Can kids today enjoy such simple, relatively cheap pleasures? Nosiree, Bob. Now they need tickets to ComicCon and a trip to Not-HobbyLobby to buy glue guns, paints and foam rubber panels so they can take over your workshop to fashion Lady Thor costumes. I give you the Maidenform of Asgard:
It’s not done. It still needs to be painted and decorated and bejeweled. Good god, what’s to become of this generation, I ask you. Please discuss whatever.
KG
tin foil and toilet paper rolls?
wei knew some guys who used coke cans and apples for suchsummer activitiesyouthful indiscretions.SiubhanDuinne
I put this as an O/T on the thread downstairs, but it belongs better in an open thread: James Brady, who was shot and paralyzed for life during the Reagan assassination attempt, has died. He was a republican nominally, of course, but he and his wife Sarah were tireless advocates for gun control in this country. May he RIP.
Elizabelle
I think Cracker Jr’s design skills are way beyond mine, at her young age.
Very cool.
Pogonip
Looks like something Madonna would wear.
I don’t follow this stuff closely, but I don’t understand why they cooked up Thorette when Thor had a wife, Sif, who could have served the same function and painlessly taught kids something new at the same time.
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yeah. My first thought was that it was his second death, since his injury devastated the Bradys’ lives, but led to their very good work in support of sensible gun legislation.
Now done in by the party of Reagan. Sad, sad, sad.
RIP James. Peace to Sarah.
Randy P
A what? Oh wait, is this another one of those poodle cross-breeds with the cutesy name? Let me guess… a miniature poodle and a G…great Dane?
Seriously, I have never seen that word in my life.
pamelabrown53
@Elizabelle: Cracker Jr’s design skills are awesome. Still, we old ladies need a super woman design with side boobs.
Trollhattan
@Pogonip:
Lacks a certain pointiness but…point taken anyway.
Josie
I certainly hope we will get to see a picture of the completed project. It looks to be a very glamorous costume. I actually like the lack of pointiness – much more modern and natural.
SiubhanDuinne
@Randy P:
My middle name is “Goodelle” (like NFL Commissioner Roger, but with a Frenchy “e” affixed to the end) — family surname — but my cousin has always addressed or referred to me as “Goodle.” Until you posted about it a year or so ago, Betty, I never actually knew that a goodle was a Thing. Let alone a useful Thing.
Dee Loralei
Very cool and talented young lady. Did she re-take the driver’s test today? Best of luck to Jr. Cracker.
One of my sons friends makes stuff like that and sells it, makes enough money to go to Comic Con and several other places every year.
Amir Khalid
We’ll all want to see what the costume looks like when painted and decorated and bejeweled (and worn, also, but you may want to exercise some discretion there for privacy’s sake).
Elizabelle
Went to a small press comics expo last year, and was delighted to see so many women and young girls into cartooning and graphics. Very smart people all around, and loved watching teh youngs (in the audience) finish each other’s drawings.
It’s the best admission fee you will spend in the DC area this fall — $20 for both days, with plenty of good panels and the chance to talk with real (published!) artists.
September 13-14, “North Bethesda” near White Flint Mall (OK, Rockville!) — maybe we can do a BJ meetup?
Go cartoonist grrrrls.
NonyNony
@Pogonip:
Sales.
The thing to understand about the modern comic book industry is that a book with really, really high sales sells somewhere around 120,000 to 150,000 copies into the US market per month. A low average book sells more like 30K to 40K copies. Thor has been selling right in that average spot recently, so they’re looking to tweak the market for Thor. How do you do that? Stunt casting is one way to do it.
Why not use Sif? Well they put Sif in her own book a couple of years back (after the first Thor movie) and it only sold in the 10K-20K range – not enough to keep a book floating and they cancelled it last year. (It was good book too – as with much of entertainment, popular does not always equate with good). No way they’d replace Thor with Sif so soon after her own book getting canned – it’s unlikely to tweak sales.
(For the same reason the Falcon is now going to be Captain America for a while. Captain America’s book is right now selling in the 30K range, so some stunt casting is in order. And Wolverine’s book is in the 40K range so they’re going to kill him off as a stunt in the hopes that when they bring him back down the road sales on his new book will be boosted. Follow the money and you’ll rarely go wrong.)
nellcote
House Obama
Ours Is the White House
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
Modesty, also, too.
Elizabelle
@nellcote:
Love it! Isn’t today his birthday?
schrodinger's cat
I wish Cracker daughter, good luck on retaking the driving test, whenever it is scheduled. BTW, has she thought of using concrete for more support?
Amir Khalid
@Elizabelle:
Why people like James Brady are needed, part the infinity.
Paul in KY
Betty, she’s going to need a badass hammer, if she’s going as Thorgrrl.
Michael A
I see the sickles, I assume she will be carrying the hammer? These damn commie kids are so creative today.
M
Josie
@nellcote: Fantastic picture!
Pogonip
@NonyNony: Yup, that explains it.
Sif’s not a vitamin.
cmorenc
Fractal nipple design on the costume – cute.
Scamp Dog
@nellcote: I think a better choice for the Obama words would be “please proceed”–that’s the man’s style in a fight. Well, a debate.
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: Thank God the idiot didn’t point it at anyone else.
Pro Tip: If the gun is not a revolver or a single shot weapon, you must look 2 places to see if it is loaded. The magazine (where future rounds to be fired are) and the firing chamber (where a current round to be fired will be).
I’m sure alcohol was involved…
Elizabelle
@Amir Khalid:
Death by stupidity.
Poor witnesses. They cannot unsee what the late Mr. Eric Zyzanski brought into their lives.
catclub
ISIS has captured the largest dam in Iraq. This is not good news.
They also drove out the Kurdish Peshmerga from another area. This is also not good.
It might become good if the Kurds and the Iraqi Shia/Baghdad central ‘government’ can start cooperating, which may happen.
BGinCHI
Are those sickles that make up the bustier part?
Commie costume!
Bob In Portland
@Amir Khalid: I put up a few posts last night to respond to the Daily Beast article you linked.
Also, this.
catclub
@BGinCHI: Also, Peace Symbol in the shield.
Suffern ACE
@catclub: i’m going to go with “What is, “It’s too late?”, for 10,000 troops back in Bagdad right after mid-terms.
BGinCHI
@catclub: Commie hippy dippy costume.
Amir Khalid
@Bob In Portland:
This seems a less one-sided report on the situation.
Amir Khalid
@Bob In Portland:
And this examination of possible Western media bias in coverage of the Ukraine-Russia conflict is worth a look. Not least for what is noted about the dirt on Russian hands.
Pogonip
@Bob In Portland: Hodor.
Cervantes
@Amir Khalid: Thanks for mentioning that.
Yatsuno
@Amir Khalid: Whyfor do you make the BiP cry?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Yatsuno: Somebody should?
shelley
That would look pretty good in Midgard (the realm of men) as well. Let her know that there were völvur, women prophets/shamans in pre-Christian Scandinavia. Some of the most respected people in the Viking age.
Bob In Portland
@Yatsuno: Cry about what? We’re grownups, we exchange information.
J R in WV
@Bob In Portland:
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Some of us use information and others make stuff up, or link to other folks making stuff up. Whatever.
Hodor.
Kay
It’s great looking. Good job!
My son wants to go to one in Cleveland but I think he’s too young so he’s not going. He’s only 12. I don’t know what would be The Age. Maybe 14?
Which is too bad. I love making costumes. Not wearing them, just making them.
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
14 or 15 is probably about the right age. Obviously, you ideally have a geek-minded parent who’s willing to chaperone the group (I’m assuming he wants to go with friends).
Cervantes
@Bob In Portland: Emotional investment can make discussion complicated, I agree. As for information, accuracy and reliability are not always easy to establish.
Kay
@Mnemosyne:
He does, he wants to go with one particular friend. This friend’s parents don’t drive them anywhere for whatever reason so I would drive and stay…around them.
I actually really like this particular friend. He’s smart and funny and my sense is his house is unhappy or something is going on there so I like to take him places he might not ordinarily go. Just not there, yet.
They were good about it when I said “no”, the boys. They moved right on to the next plan :)
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
I was trying to find it online, but have you seen the Target commercial with the mom who takes her teenage daughter and daughter’s friends to the boy band concert? The tagline is something like Coolest Mom Ever. That’s the mom you’ll be when they’re a little older. ;-)
ETA: To be clear, I think you were right to veto it this time around — 12 is a little too young.
Bob In Portland
@J R in WV: Feeling confident in your sources?
Bob In Portland
@Cervantes: True. How many people here have irrational hatred towards Putin? I imagine there was a lot of irrational hatred towards bin Laden, Saddam, Khadafy et al.
When I was a younger man my government made me run around a field with other young men chanting, “I want to go to Vietnam. I want to kill me a Charlie Cong.” Many of generation actually did go to Vietnam and kill Vietnamese. It must be easier if you run around a field with that little poem in your head. Or rely on the NY Times.
Did the NY Times ever get around to mentioning the surrender of 400 Ukrainian soldiers to Russia? How did they explain it? Identify units?
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence of evidence.
Bob In Portland
@J R in WV: Your government makes stuff up. Has for a long time.