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My best Valentine's Day/Night ever. That is all.

A brief salute to America's Imaginary Jet-Packed Infantrymen

When I was a kid my first G.I. Joe playset was the JUMP jet pack - which included an elevated launch pad, a twin cylinder jet pack with little rocket exhausts on each side and of course... a laser gun that fed off the main power supply of the pack itself. As a bonus I believe it included a silver padded version of the Laser-Rifle Trooper (code name: Flash). For whatever reason I always just assumed that the real world military must've reflected their 3/12" Hasbro counterparts. It was sheer child logic: "Whatever can exist as a toy, can therefore exist in real life."

Maybe this was a subliminal side-effect of growing up during the Reagan Administration. That somehow the unprecedented arms build up that America was experiencing had to, just had to, include Jet Packs, Heavy Artilery Laser cannons, guys with trained eagles and of course... something like a platoon of katana and uzi wielding commandos!

I mean seriously, what else could justify such an unprecendented build up in military spending if it wasn't on jet-packs and ninjas?

But no... it turns out we blew it all on the STAR WARS satellites and nukes instead!

Pfff... like any of those things ever helped in America's never ending war with the forces of Cobra!

So it is with proud and thankful heart, that I would like to take this moment to commemorate the fighting men and women of the flying army we never, but should have, had...


Death by Hover-Pod, Sucka!

An experimental hovering sniper platform. How cool would this have been for sheer psychological warfare. Picture the advancing American army, with their floating pods zooming around the air, so we would resemble the alien invaders you'd see on the covers of old Science Fiction Pulps! Seriously who wants to fuck with anyone fronting UFO tech?


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And now a word from our "sponsors"-

Local Film maker, producer and all around nice guy BRUCK wanted me to spread the word on an upcoming new movie he's worked on coming to theaters near you in seven days... The Signal.

To offer a little taste of the goodness to come here's a webisode centered in the continuity of the Signal-verse if you will.