you won’t be able to unsee this horrifying and yet mesmerizing 1980s Hobbit book art (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Jan 29, 2013

What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today:
• Tee-hee! Stormtrooper: What I Do

• Wait, so, the woman, Diane O’Meara, whose photo was used to punk Manti Te’o is a “media executive and consumer Internet analyst and advocate” (which almost makes me think we’re all being punk’d now), and she appears to think that she has been somehow damaged in social media because of this hoax. I’m sure this hasn’t been fun for her, but it seems she’s overreacting a bit. How has her reputation taken a hit? I don’t see it… Through social media, a launch into the Manti Te’o scandal

• No, the world did not suddenly turn from black-and-white to color sometime in the 1930s… Paris 1914

Wow.

• Rrrraaaaggghhhh! Can’t unsee! Horrifying and yet mesmerizing 1980s Hobbit book art! This book cover of The Hobbit from the 1980s is both hilarious & terrifying..

• Love! RT @scotteweinberg: Yowch! RT @gholson LIKE WATTO FOR CHOCOLATE #StarWarsSpinoffs

Zero Gundark Thirty RT @scottEweinberg: Wait Until Gundark #starwarsspinoffs

Bwahahaha! RT @EricDSnider: COOL HAN LUKE #starwarsspinoffs

The Han That Rocks the Cradle #StarWarsSpinoffs

Love it. RT @danowen79: DJANGO FETT UNCHAINED #starwarsspinoffs

LOL RT @bobdevney: .@maryannjohanson Another hospital show: OBI GYN #StarWarsSpinoffs

• Shaaaaaaaaatnerrrrrrrrrr!!!! Captain Kirk takes on Doctor Who Fans!

(hat-tip for today’s links: Word Smythic, FishbowlLA, PJK, @spliggle)

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Paul

Tue, Jan 29, 2013 11:52pm

Who is that on the cover of The Hobbit?

Johnny Vegas in a wig? But he’d be too young in the 80s, surely?

innpchan

Wed, Jan 30, 2013 12:05am

Isn’t the Green Gollum hanging with the interior decorator from Beetlejuice? And does that mean Gollum’ s secret identity is… Robert Goulet?

Smith

Wed, Jan 30, 2013 3:02am

Yep, I remember that Hobbit cover from my childhood.

RogerBW

Wed, Jan 30, 2013 11:55am

For crying out loud, Bill, you’re a television personality, not an actor.

Paul

reply to RogerBW

Wed, Jan 30, 2013 12:30pm

I’ve seen him hosting Have I Got News For You. I think you may be optimistic in labelling him a television personality.

On the other hand, I also have his version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, which is a powerful argument for him being a Conceptual Artist at least on a par with Tracy Emin.