Hi, I'm Chris Eckert.
I live in Brooklyn.
I have made a Tumblr blog, even though I already have like eighty other ones.
I hope you're happy, Internet.
I also write actual things for:
Funnybook Babylon
Items of Potential Interest
and elsewhere. Just Google me, I'm the Chris Eckert that doesn't take photographs or make robots.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Marvel Fanfare Pinup of the Day #2: Iron Man by Bill Reinhold, from MF #41
Marvel Fanfare Pinup of the Day #1: Namor by Kent Williams, from MF #40
FBBP #138 – Daredevil Discourse with David Brothers
Big Talk about Ann Nocenti and John Romita Jr’s Daredevil run with Jamaal and special guest David Brothers!
I never was down with Simon because it wasn’t hardcore enough, but if Swizzy will allow Simon Flash into the Ruff Ryder family, who am I to judge?
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ALSO ON THIS DAY OF THINGS VAGUELY RELATED TO SPACE!
- Deforest “Bones on Star Trek” Kelley, born 1920
- Paul “Starchild” Stanley of KISS, born 1952
- Tom “I’m Not Sure if Dr. Who Goes to Space But Probably” Baker, born 1934
- Will “SimEarth Kind of Happens in Space” Wright, born 1960
- Amir “?uestlove” “Did a song called “Celestial Blues” Once” Thompson, born 1971
- David “Dune” Lynch, born 1946
Also George Lucas’s latest space battle film, Red Tails premiered in theaters today!
Truly, today is a day full of space!
ON THIS DAY IN SPACE: Slim Whitman was born in 1924, ensuring our safety against attacking Martians.
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ON THIS DAY IN SPACE: Buzz Aldrin (left) turns 82!
ON THIS DAY: Marcus “Buff” Bagwell turns 42! Buff had quite the career:
- He was The Handsome Stranger, a masked Chippendale’s dancer/gigolo in Global Championship Wrestling
- He moved on to become an American Male in WCW, which as best as I can tell is a pair of Color Me Badd inspired gigolos
- Joining the New World Order, he formed another tag team — Vicious and Delicious
- Then I don’t know, he hung around being “The Stuff” and a b-level NWO member for years. He had a top hat!
- He may go down in history as the only wrestler to ever have a My Mother On A Pole match
And he’s certainly tied with a number of other performers with Shortest Stint in the WWF, with his single match in 2001.
Happy birthday, Buff! I hope you don’t mind that we always changed your character in N64 games to a guy named Daterape. I think it was justified.
ON THIS DAY: Happy birthday to a real couple of Nixons:
37th President of the United States Richard Milhous Nixon (b. 1913)
16 Year MLB veteran Otis Junior Nixon Jr. (b. 1959)
