Love at First Sight

I'm not what you'd call a motorhead. In fact, I have trouble telling most cars apart, save for the occasional Jeep, Porche or station wagon I see on the road. As long as it runs (and doesn't look too much like Ace and Gary's favorite mode of transportation) I'll drive pretty much anything. Except an El Camino. They suck.

Every once in a while, though, there comes a car that can warm the icy cockles of my heart. I'm pretty sure the two cars you see below slipped me a roofie and had their way with me several times over. I'd press charges but think I'm in love. Don't be like me, kids!

Here's the first, a Punisher-themed dragster in a photo taken at the Union County dragway in South Carolina:

My vehicular dyslexia can be fairly pronounced at times. On a bad day I can spot only two kinds of cars: Batmobiles and Not Batmobiles. I think I know which category the next car falls into.

The second photo was taken at the KDS Motorsports 2010 Season Starter. Both photos are courtesy of Quick 8 Outlaws, a promod group from here in South Carolina. (But the tip came from the ever-lascivious Hypno Pimp.)

The Punisher: Arcade Flier

"They killed his family. They destroyed his career. Someone's gonna pay."

That's a really dark tagline for a game that's a fairly typical side-scrolling shoot 'em up. You could also play Nick Fury in the two-player version of this game, who apparently didn't need such a tragic motivation to blow the holy hell out of NYC's underworld.

The Punisher: 1989 Score

Here are a couple of links I came across to a really unlikely album: the Dennis Dreith score to the 1989 New World picture The Punisher.

It's pretty unusual for a movie to skip its theatrical release and still get a soundtrack album released. It's even more unusual for that album to be released 20 years after the fact. I think part of this comes from the growing cult following the Dolph Lundgren movie has gained since the advent of DVD.

Helping the argument for the Lundgren film are the subsequent Punisher movies with Thomas Jane and Ray Stevenson, which illustrated that the much-less-expensive 1989 film wasn't so bad, after all. While it might not make a great "modern" interpretation of The Punisher, it's fairly reflective of the Carl Potts era of Marvel when the film was made.


You can pick the soundtrack up at Amazon HERE, or buy the DVD (it's cheap!) HERE.