Beaming For Bunnies: 2025

Friday, February 28, 2025

Sweet Seventeen

Can you believe it? This lil blog turned SEVENTEEN?!

There's really no good pop culture reference to "17." Nothing good, anyway. That Sesame Street image is the best we're gonna get.

17 is such a weird age, it's like it doesn't even count. You passed the Sweet 16, and you're not a legal adult until you turn 18. You're just a junior in High School and frankly, that's a year of my life I don't want to revisit.

As for what I've been up to since I last posted...not much. We saw Kendrick's diss track to Drake earn multiple Grammys and sung in front of the whole world at the Super Bowl, for one.

SNL had its 50th anniversary special

The world lost a few people, like Michelle Trachtenberg, Roberta Flack, Gene Hackman (the jury is still out on HOW he died. It's sad enough that he passed at 95), and just today Kingda Ka.

Man, just like the ride itself, it was over in about ten seconds. I only got one ride on it, and frankly that was enough. It also marks the end of the drop tower that was attached to it, Zumanjaro. The view at the top was incredible, and again, I only managed to ride it once.

And of course, we lost Lynne Marie Stewart.

Miss Yvonne from Pee-Wee's Playhouse! Decades in show business and she's one of those people I've never heard a bad word about. She'd been nothing but warm, sweet, and hilarious.

Pictured above is a signed pic I snagged off eBay the moment I heard the news. It was only a matter of days when other signed pics were taken off and relisted for double the price. Bastards.

And while I was there, I picked up this signed pic of Kurtwood Smith.

This was much cheaper, mostly because

1) He's still alive

and 2) Coming out to defend Danny Masterson really reduced the demand on his stuff. Don't think I paid more than $20 before all the fees and stuff.

And my mind was blown when I learned that Lynne Marie Stewart also played Mrs. Kelly on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

The show won't be the same without her, and I know she's gonna be in the upcoming season. It's gonna be tough when we see the "in memory of" dedication.

So farewell to the most beautiful woman in Puppet Land, and farewell February. Let's hope March is better.

Follow Me on Twitter!

Follow Me on Bluesky! (new!)

Follow Me on Instagram!

"Like" Beaming For Bunnies on Facebook!

Friday, January 31, 2025

Goodbye January

Okay, I'd like to make a correction from last month's post: I'm ready to go back to 2024.

January's finally over, and that felt like forever. David Lynch AND Simpsons Tapped Out died, not to mention any hope of not being anxious over the...general state of everything.

But I hope you all remembered to celebrate National Gorilla Suit Day!

Somewhat related, but earlier this month I picked up a book I'd been searching for since my childhood.

"Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head & Other Drawings" by B. Kliban.

A now-deceased family friend that lived Upstate had it when we went to visit on family vacations. She had a few Calvin and Hobbes books and a few other comic strip collections, but this was the one I poured over most of all.

It was the first time I ever saw swears in a comic strip and it blew my tiny mind. It was the first comic in the book, and it was a taste of what was to come.

For literal decades I could not remember the name of the book, nor who drew it. But then one of those engagement farm posts went around Bluesky about comics that influenced you, and I googled the only drawing I remembered (the one you see above), and I hit the jackpot. I quickly found the cheapest copy off Amazon and now it's all mine!

The book was published in 1976 and B. Kliban (or "Hap" as he liked to be called) was once an artist for Playboy, and this book does not hide that one bit.

It's one of a few nude pictures in that book, but it was the one that stuck with me. And it's still timely all these years later.

But THIS is my all time favorite drawing in the book. Just eating pies like he just bit into a big sandwich. There's so many pies, and there's even pictures of pies on the wall! It just tells one hell of a story.

If these cartoons seem familiar, Gary Larson has cited B. Kliban to be a giant influence on The Far Side, and man does it show. This one seemed to be the most Far Side-like, in both artwork and the story it tells.