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Freak Machine

When I was a bit bigger than a wee boy, boy did I enjoy playing Exquisite Corpse. 

“What’s that?” you say?  C’mon you know: I draw the head, fold the paper over but continue the neck so the next player/drawer can see where to start; they draw the body, fold it over but continue so the last player/drawer can see where to start, and so on for the feet.  I suppose you could do it with the entire class but we kept it to three generally.  Maybe that had to do with the number of kids in our family.

Anyhoo, Exquistie Corpse has come to the Internet, but with a much cooler name.  Give it a play right here (click to link), and send it on to an email friend.  Freak Machine will post once complete.
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Little Nemo


The Champion Cartoonist Of All Time has got to be Windsor McKay.  He created Little Nemo In Slumberland, Dreams Of A Rarebit Fiend, and Gerty The Dinosaur, to name but a few.  He was one of the original pioneers of cinema and used to do a trick act where he performed live on stage as if he was training Gerty, who was actually nothing more than a filmed dinosaur.

Little Nemo is hours upon hours of fun for any kid of any age.  McKay drew with architectual precision.  He had full page panels that would work equally well upside down as right side up.  His imagination knew no bounds.
We feel safe in saying that none of other hero drawers could do the work they have accomplished without him to pave the way — so imagine how dull that world would be: No Miyazake, no Tex Avery, no David Weisner, no Chris Ware, and so on and so on and so on.

There is a great collection of his work on-line at the Comic Strip Library.
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Good Website: NASA’s Mars Program Funzone

NASA has a website dedicated to the Mars Program.  And they have a whole bowl full of games.  What are you doing?  Get over to Mars.

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Cool Cars #8: Watermelon Car





Thanks to Crooked Brains, this landed in The Bowl.

I guess we’d be the seeds you spit out if we were driving…
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Pre-fab Monsters, Aliens, & Extreme Vehicles

Whomever came up with Z-Cardz gets extra points in our book. They are cards but then you punch out the shapes and assemble into 3-dimensional creations.  They increase your fun by letting you be the one to build them.  

Here they are taking over our computer again!

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Ninja Kitten Commercial

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Astro Boy Returns!

He doesn’t look as sweet this time…

The old shows in B&W and the newer ones get a lot of play in our bowl.  We will be at the head of the line when the new feature debuts.  Click here to see the first trailer.  We are hungry for more.