Vote Today

With all of the politics going around, we should -- at the very least -- vote who our robot overlords should be.  So, go vote for your favorites in the Robot Hall of Fame.  The robocalypse is bound to begin at one of their induction ceremonies.

(Via BoingBoing)

Friday Iguana

A veritable rainbow of iguanas for your Labor Day weekend.  Happy Friday everyone!

(Image courtesy of ARE.IN.BEE)

Daily Rock Band Name: Extreme Space Age Hairdos of Yesteryear

Extreme Space Age Hairdos of Yesteryear is the name of my B-52s cover band.

Daily Rock Band Name: Marmon 34

I think I saw Marmon 34 open for Blink-182.

Dwayne's Wednesday Robot Romper Room

"The Cooker" (aka the robot cooker character):  The Cooker is the robot found on the moon in the 1989 Wallace and Gromit adventure A Grand Day Out. It is not bad enough to look like an oven but to have two trespassers come along and start vandalizing and littering up his home -- the moon -- is too much. Finally, the poor robot comes to realize that he could live out his dream of skiing if only he can hitch a ride back to Earth with the interlopers. Unfortunately, Wallace and Gromit escape from the moon with a rocket full of moon-cheese and leaving behind the Cooker and some scrap metal. Making lemonade out life's lemons the robot fashions his skis out from the debris left behind from the rocket.

(Image courtesy of the Wallace and Gromit Wiki)

Daily Rock Band Name: Liquefying Beetroots

Liquefying Beetroots has a debut album called Physical Performance is Unknown. You should check it out.

Daily Rock Band Name: Menaced by Giraffes

Menaced by Giraffes is my Trampled by Turtles tribute band.

Daily Rock Band Name: Wonder Clock

Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to rock with Wonder Clock!

Friday Iguana

Today's Iguana is a sunning on a rock in the Botanical Garden at Portoviejo, Ecuador. Lucky guy! Happy Friday everyone.

(Image courtesy of Wikipedia)

Daily Rock Band Name: Scratched Metal Murals

Introducing our Iron Maiden tribute band Scratched Metal Murals!

Daily Rock Band Name: Bee Jargon

Let's welcome to our stage: Bee Jargon!

Dwayne's Wednesday Robot Romper Room

Eastern Bloc Robot Cowboy: Eastern Bloc Robot Cowboy appeared in season three of the cartoon The Tick in 1996. Probably one of the more unusual robots being that this Soviet machination is part vending machine and part cowboy. He speaks with a western drawl and has some Cyrillic-esque writing on him. The Tick is able to defeat Eastern Bloc Robot Cowboy by inserting a quarter into him and buying his brain.

(Image courtesy of The Atomic Think Tank)

Daily Rock Band Name: Ugly Nordhoff

I think my dad told me about the time Ugly Nordhoff opened for The Troggs.

Daily Rock Band Name: Spider Molt

Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for Spider Molt!

Daily Rock Band Name: Coal Diggers and Dynamite

Oust Homes the debut album of Coal Diggers and Dynamite rocks the house!

Daily Rock Band Name: Hidden Factors of Service

Let's hear it for that alternative band Hidden Factors of Service!

Daily Rock Band Name: Cooling Space Pilots

Introducing my Ziggy Stardust tribute act: Cooling Space Pilots!

Friday Iguana

Bill Amend posted a Game of Thrones related comic a few weeks ago.  So, I bring you Quincy in real life.  (Hank playing the part of Quincy)  Happy Friday everyone!

Daily Rock Band Name: Run, Wombat, Run.

I think I saw Run, Wombat, Run open for Bow Wow Wow back in the day.

Daily Rock Band Name: Weird Batteries and Wimpy Gorrillas

If you like alternative rock, you will love Weird Batteries and Wimpy Gorrillas!

Dwayne's Wednesday Robot Romper Room

The Electric Grandmother: In 1982 movie of the same name (written by Ray Bradbury), some kids lose their mother.  So, what does a good father do?  He goes and buys them a robot grandmother.  What choice did he have? Two of the kids are easily won over, but the third it takes some doing.  When grandma is hit by a truck and no damage is done to her, the friendship is sealed.  Another story free of killer robots.

(Image courtesy of The Pink Smoke)

Daily Rock Band Name: Futuramic Two Wheeler

Get ready to rock with Futuramic Two Wheeler!

Daily Rock Band Name: Magic Aquatic Garden

Magic Aquatic Garden is like totally groovy dude!

Daily Rock Band Name: Impossible Helicopter

Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Impossible Helicopter!

Daily Rock Band Name: Gophers, Einstein and Mars

My Emerson, Lake & Palmer tribute band is Gophers, Einstein and Mars!

Daily Rock Band Name: Voters with Amnesia

I think I saw Voters with Amnesia open for Foo Fighters.

Friday Iguana

Happy Friday everyone! Here is a recent picture of my iguana Hank! Big yawn!  Perhaps I will add fire to this image.  

Daily Rock Band Name: Bane of Crypto Zoologists

I think I saw Bane of Crypto Zoologists open for Beck.

Daily Rock Band Name: Rope Makers of Spain

The Rope Makers of Spain have a debut album named Twist Strands by Hand.

Dwayne's Wednesday Robot Romper Room

Huey, Dewey, and Louie (AKA Drone 2, Drone 1, and Drone 3 respectively): In the movie Silent Runnings, all the plant life on earth has been destroyed.  The plants only exist on these domed spaceships which circle the sun just outside of Saturn's orbit.  The goal is to replant the Earth when it is viable. These three robots aid in the maintenance of these domes.  A single robot (Dewey) survives to the end of the movie, but the crew members and the other two robots are not destroyed by a robot rampage for a change.

Daily Rock Band Name: The Graffiti of Pompeii

I think I saw The Graffiti of Pompeii open for Scritti Politti back in the day.

Robocalype Mars

The life on Mars is doomed! The robot take-over of Mars took a big step forward early Monday morning (CDT). Could the Earth be next? Stay tuned!

Daily Rock Band Name: Cows Eat Sawdust

The debut album Thrive on Strange Diet by Cows Eat Sawdust is worth a listen!

Daily Rock Band Name: Wombat in the Hat

I think I saw Wombat in the Hat open for the Eurythmics when I was a kid.

Daily Rock Band Name: Werewolf Lesbians in Love!

Head for the mosh pit because here comes Werewolf Lesbians in Love!

Daily Rock Band Name: A Valley Painted Red with Algae

If you like your alternative rock, you are going to love A Valley Painted Red with Algae!

Friday Iguana

Today's iguana is an impressive open mouthed rock iguana. Silent roar! Happy Friday.

(Image courtesy of John Iverson of Earlham College's Biology Department)

Daily Rock Band Name: Zombie Bees

The debut album of the Zombie Bees entitled Infiltrating Your Neighborhood should hit your local record store soon.

Daily Rock Band Name: Nested Vehicles

Introducing Nested Vehicles -- a tribute band for The Cars!

Dwayne's Wednesday Robot Romper Room

Willard: In 1989 movie R.O.T.O.R., Willard was a robotic lab assistant. Make a goofy looking robot and put a police officer's hat on his head and voila! Instant comic relief. I have to say the best actor in the entire movie.


(Image courtesy of Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension)

Daily Rock Band Name: Fuel Tank Labyrinth

I think I saw Fuel Tank Labyrinth open for David Bowie.