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Underdog at the 2009 Baltimore Mayor's Christmas Parade
"Suzanne Muldowney makes her 21st consecutive appearance at the Mayor's Christmas Parade in Hampden (Baltimore, MD) - her 19th as 60s cartoon superhero Underdog. Due to a serious illness caused by a cat bite, a visibly weakened Suzanne had to hitch a ride this year, but it didn't take her long to take to the streets afterwards. She's a trouper!" --Tom Warner
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Thursday, December 10, 2009
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Suzanne Muldowney Overcomes Illness To March on Underdog's 45th Anniversary
"Suzanne Muldowney left her hospital bed, where she was recovering from complications arising from a cat bite, to make her 21st consecutive appearance (and 19th as 60s cartoon superhero Underdog) in the Mayor's Christmas Parade in Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood. Though she was too weak to march, Suzanne motored throug...h the parade in style (her cape lining adorned with saphire stones) and hopes to make it back next year - and needless to say for Underdog's 50th anniversary in 2014!" --Tom Warner
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Mayor's Christmas Parade in Hampden
Shriners ride miniature vehicles, the crippled children's float, and the most surreal float of all: The Vietnam Vet "Reindeer Hunter" float.
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Happy Holidays from Atomic TV
Suzanne Muldowney, better known as "Underdog Lady," sings "Silent Night" accompanied by "The Awkard Sounds of Scott & Skizz" at the 2006 Mayor's Christmas Parade in Hampden, Maryland.
Meanwhile, over at Accelerated Decrepitude, Atomic TV's Tom Warner files his first-hand report along with photos of the much heftier Underdog portraying the "Fairy of the Golden Snow."
Labels: hampden, skizz, underdog_lady, xmas
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"Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto"
"During the holiday season of 1997, I had a sudden epiphany while listening to James Brown's "Santa Claus Goes Straight To the Ghetto." White Christmas? Bah humbug! Suddenly I had visions dancing in my head, not of sugar plums but of billy clubs, Rodney King, rioting, looting, and arson. And of a guy dressed in red with a big sack...named Fat Albert! Like Dylan's lyrics, not sure what it all means, but here it is for your bemusement." -- Tom Warner
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Wednesday, December 09, 2009
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"Underdog Battles Satan Claus!"
Also available on Google Video
Making it to the parade in the nick of time, Underdog shines in her 11th consecutive holiday march, only to confront her greatest challenge yet... SATAN CLAUS, a Y2K-obssessed messenger of doom who taunts Underdog and terrifies parade goers with his prediction that the world will end New Year's Eve when Dick Clark drops the ball in Times Square. Will this be the last Hampden Parade for Underdog? Or will she defeat the powers of darkness in time to enjoy a tasty roast beef sandwich? Watch and find out in our wildest Christmas Special ever!
Labels: underdog_lady xmas hampden satan_claus
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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Underdog Lady in "The Tootsie Roll Incident"
Also available on [Google Video]
Underdog Lady takes a brief respite from her battle with Satan Claus so that she can stock up the secret compartment in her cape with treats tossed to the ground by the Tootsie Roll Trolley.
Labels: hampden, satan_claus, underdog_lady, xmas
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"Heat Miser/Cold Miser" by The Krudz
Are The Krudz the worst local Baltimore band ever? Nepotism rules supreme in the Atomic Universe, so I let my brother's "band" join in the Xmas festivities in this clip from the Atomic TV 1997 Holiday Special: "Holiday at Ground Zero."
The Krudz soon went on the play the Kiss/Devo show only to fade into obscurity.
Labels: atomic_books, krudz, xmas
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Monday, November 30, 2009
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Jerry Butler's Turkey Stuffing
Porn Star Jerry Butler shares his special recipe and unique techniquw for stuffing a turkey. From Atomic TV's Thanksgiving Special.
Watch Jerry Butler's Turkey Stuffing - Atomic TV's Thanksgiving Special in Sexy | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Saturday, November 28, 2009
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Atomic TV's Thanksgiving Episode
Watch Atomic TV's Thanksgiving Episode in Entertainment | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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"A good deal to all the male fans."
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Found this letter while cleaning... it was sent to Atomic Books at the 36th Street location, a good while after we stopped airing the show on city cable.
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Monday, February 23, 2009
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Photos from DEAD AIR Video Exhibition
Photos from DEAD AIR Video Exhibition ~ Feb. 17, 2009
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Thursday, February 19, 2009
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DEAD AIR video exhibition + THE END of Analog opening party - Feb. 17th (large flier)
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posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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DEAD AIR: The End of Analog Party
Atomic TV is Part of the End of Analog Video Exhibition
by Tom "Man About Town" Warner
http://accelerateddecrepitude.blogspot.com
DEAD AIR Video Exhibition (Feb 17 - Mar 22)
Metro Gallery, 1700 N Charles St
www.themetrogallery.net
www.myspace.com/metrogallery
Exhibit Opening: THE END of Analog Party (Feb 17, 2009)
Metro Gallery, 1700 N Charles St
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm; $6, Light snacks, Cash bar
Bands: Lo Moda, Plans Plans, and Edie Sedgwick
VJs: Joe Reinsel, Chris LaMartina, and Guy Werner
Exhibiting Video Artists: Vin Grabill, Atomic TV, Phil Davis, Kristen Anchor, and Preston Poe
What a fitting event for an Atomic TV retrospective: a farewell party for the archaic medium of analog video featuring a long dormant TV show that's been pretty much dead and decomposing for the past 4 years (Atomic TV, b. June 1997 - d. February 2005)! Atomic TV's heyday was roughly 1997 to 2000. In the New Millenium, Scott Huffines and I only turned in a few sporadic "holiday" and "special" episodes ("The Thanksgiving Episode" "The Black History Month Episode" "Atomic TV Shorts," "The Mark Harp Memorial Episode," and the "2004 Election Political Episode"), a result of various factors including unemployment, new employment, spending too much time at the racetrack, and The Rape of the Tapes Incident (when some feckless and unapologetic city cable employees tossed out about 30 Atomic TV episodes that were stored in their offices). Plus, the rise of Internet video streaming technology, viral video sites like YouTube, and the whole conversion from analog to digital technology took its aesthetic and financial toll and made us kind of redundant (Atomic TV was mostly shot on S-VHS video and edited on "cuts-only" S-VHS VCRs). Whatever. Atomic TV got derailed and only through this event have we gotten back on track to put together a "gallery background video clips" reel. This event has given us the opportunity to go back and dig through the hundreds of hours of video muck we created and find the best slices of the mud pie we hurled at Baltimore's late-night cable TV audience back in the day. It's been fun and we hope you think so too.
The Gruesome Twosome:
Atomic TV's Scott Huffines and Tom Warner
Tom and Scott figures from the "Atomic TV Colorforms Play Set"
Here's the official event press release from Kristen Anchor (CAmm) and Metro Gallery:
Good-bye analog, hello digital! 11:59:59pm February 17, 2009 is currently the legal deadline for TV broadcasters to switch from over-the-air analog broadcast to digital, leaving traditional TV sets unable to receive broadcast TV. Dead Air marks this momentous cultural and historical occasion taking a look back at analog and forward to digital — how we use it, abuse it, love it, and hate it– the flaws, joys, (dis)advantages, and beauty of it all.
We kick off the exhibition on Feb 17 with THE END of Analog Party, a rock ‘n roll multimedia circus including music by Baltimore’s art rock super-stars Lo Moda and Plans Plans plus DC’s Edie Sedgwick (Discord Records), with original site-specific visual accompaniment created by Joe Reinsel, Chris LaMartina and Guy Werner.
Baltimore underground weirdos and movers-and-shakers mix with indie music videos, Mexican wrestling, classic commercials and other ephemera. News anchors meld, stutter, and fight static in rhythmic gestures. George Bush slowly morphs into Barack Obama. Garbled, static-y footage follows a man in a suit on an ambiguous chase. Dead Air presents five single channel video works by artists Vin Grabill, Atomic TV, Phil Davis, Kristen Anchor, and Preston Poe.
THE END of Analog is coming. Are you ready?
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Wednesday, February 04, 2009
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Atomic TV to be part of D E A D A I R Video Exhibition
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D E A D A I R
Video Exhibition
Feb 17 - Mar 22
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Exhibit Opening: THE END of Analog Party
Tue Feb 17, 2009
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm
$6. Light snacks. Cash bar.
w/ bands: Lo Moda, Plans Plans, and Edie Sedgwick
VJs: Joe Reinsel, Chris LaMartina, and Guy Werner
Exhibiting Video Artists: Vin Grabill, Atomic TV, Phil Davis, Kristen Anchor, and Preston Poe
Metro Gallery
1700 N Charles St
www.themetrogallery.net
Good-bye analog, hello digital! 11:59:59pm February 17, 2009 is currently the legal deadline for TV broadcasters to switch from over-the-air analog broadcast to digital, leaving traditional TV sets unable to receive broadcast TV. Dead Air marks this momentous cultural and historical occasion taking a look back at analog and forward to digital — how we use it, abuse it, love it, and hate it– the flaws, joys, (dis)advantages, and beauty of it all.
We kick off the exhibition on Feb 17 with THE END of Analog Party, a rock ‘n roll multimedia circus including music by Baltimore’s art rock super-stars Lo Moda and Plans Plans plus DC’s Edie Sedgwick (Discord Records), with original site-specific visual accompaniment created by Joe Reinsel, Chris LaMartina and Guy Werner.
Baltimore underground weirdos and movers-and-shakers mix with indie music videos, Mexican wrestling, classic commercials and other ephemera. News anchors meld, stutter, and fight static in rhythmic gestures. George Bush slowly morphs into Barack Obama. Garbled, static-y footage follows a man in a suit on an ambiguous chase. Dead Air presents five single channel video works by artists Vin Grabill, Atomic TV, Phil Davis, Kristen Anchor, and Preston Poe.
THE END of Analog is coming. Are you ready?
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The Place: www.themetrogallery.net
The Bands: www.ediesedgwick.biz
www.lowmoda.com
www.plansplans.us
The Artists: myspace.com/chrislamartina
www.joereinsel.org
www.pressedengine.com
www.atomicteevee.com
art.umbc.edu/varts/faculty/grabill.php
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posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Sunday, January 25, 2009
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Atomic TV DVD: "Tribute to Natty Boh" plus "The Atomic Cocktail Hours"
Resistance is futile, so Atomic TV has decided to jump on the Lounge-a-palooza bandwagon, pledge allegiance to the Cocktail Nation and embrace Swankness in all its fez-hatted, zoot-suited, retro swing silliness... First up is a vintage commercial break paying homage to our legendary local blue-collar brew, Natty Boh. Then we drop by our fave watering hole, Henninger's Tavern, where owner Kenny Vieth spoils us with food and drink while we we enjoy “incredibly strange space-age bachelor pad exotica” music videos by Combustible Edison, Korla Pandit, Martin Denny, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, a rare Raymond Scott Quintette film appearance, 1940’s “Soundies” music shorts, the hepcat hokum of Baltimore’s own Swingin’ Swamis, Don Knotts as "The Love God," tributes to patron Saints of Swing Dean Martin and Buddy Love and assorted clips from drinkin’ flicks! Time flies when you're having rum, so “drink up and be somebody!”
(DVD-R, 2 hours, 30 minutes)
SNEAK PREVIEWS
Don Knotts is "The Love God?"
"The Love God?" movie trailer
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Atomic TV's Tribute to Natty Boh
Gluttons for punishment can put on their beer goggles and view the blurry-ass video encodes posted over on YouTube:
Atomic TV's Tribute to Natty Boh Part 1 (YouTube)
Atomic TV's Tribute to Natty Boh Part 2 (YouTube)
Related Links:
National Bohemian Blog
Natty Boh Gear
Beer Collections: National Bohemian
Tom Warner's Accelerated Decrepitude: You Gotta BOH-lieve
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Friday, March 09, 2007
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Tom Warner: Man About Town
"Warner, a trim blond with a well-groomed mien more befitting a GQ editor than a librarian cineaste, organizes several film programs a year..."
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Thursday, January 04, 2007
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Managers Corner by Skizz Cyzyk
Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver colorfully answers questions from baseball fans.
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Monday, December 04, 2006
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Michael Nesmith - Cruisin'
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Another classic music video from the pre-MTV era, I guess I first saw this video on Don Kirschner or some other late-night music show. I love how in the olden days the plot of a music video actually followed the song's lyrics. Plus how can you beat a line like "Trying to make connections with their blemish-free complexions"?
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Monday, March 13, 2006
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Butterfly Ball (sung by Ronnie James Dio)
When we first saw this bizarre cartoon in the mid-80's during Night Flight's "Cult Classics" we swore it was Sabbath's Ronnie James Dio singing... and it took us over 20 years to confirm the fact. A very trippy cartoon that was very fitting for USA Network's late-night stoner programming... back in those days we would finish our night shifts at Friendly's and then rush to the liquor store to buy cheap cases of RWB -- "Red, White and Blue" beer. We would then ingest all sorts of goodies, legal and illegal and topped off with 6-foot Wawa subs affectionately known as "babies," hunkering down in a hazy bliss for another weekend Night Flight all-nighter. --Scott Huffines
Labels: animation
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Wednesday, March 08, 2006
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