There are many artists and creators who have experimented mashing up the beloved Bill Watterson comic strip Calvin & Hobbes with pop culture. Fans of the strip have used its loose style and witty spirit to combine with properties likeAdventure Time, Game of Thrones, and even Fight Club.
But one collaboration has recently struck a chord throughout internet channels. That would be Brian Kesinger’s mashup of Calvin & Hobbes with Star Wars. If you’re following any serious fans of either franchise, you’ve likely run across Kesinger’s reimagining of a young Kylo Ren as the rebellious Calvin.
According to The Verge, Kesinger is a story artist at Walt Disney Studios and has also created some artwork for Marvel, specifically on six issues of Groot last year. Kesinger first thought of the idea watching The Force Awakens, when he saw Rey slide down the sands of Jakku. “[I]t made me think of that classic image of Calvin & Hobbes in their red wagon,” he told The Verge.
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Kesinger has been taken aback by the popularity of his art, but did note that his goes deeper into the spirit of the original comic strip. Examining his image, he’s right. Kesinger has also been able to recapture Watterson’s imaginative voice in the dialogue, though it aptly matches the Star Wars characters and not a Calvin & Hobbes rip-off.
“Once I really made the comparison that Kylo Ren was probably a difficult child much like Calvin, it really resonated with people,” he told The Verge. “The metaphor was solidified when I made Darth Vader Kylo’s imaginary friend.”
Mother-of-two Kim, who is married to Kanye West, was held by armed robbers in Paris last October and $10 million worth of jewelry was stolen. But insider tell Naughty Gossip that mother Kris is milking it tragedy for ratings.
Kim was bound and gagged at a private residence during Paris Fashion Week while her bodyguard was out in the city with her sisters. She thought she was going to be raped and killed on the traumatic night. She described that one of the thieves threw her on the bed and pulled her to him as she was semi-exposed.
Sunday night’s episode gave the 36-year-old reality star the platform to describe the disturbing events that transpired on October following months of news reports, speculation, and silence on her behalf.
“He grabs my legs, and I wasn’t, you know, I had no clothes on under. He pulled me toward him at the front of the bed and I thought, ‘Okay, this is the moment they’re going to rape me,’” Kim recounted in heart-wrenching detail.
She continued: “I fully mentally prepped myself – and then he didn’t. He duct-taped my legs together and had the gun up to me. I knew that was the moment they’re just totally going to shoot me in the head.”
Jennifer Lopez Loves The Spotlight Too Much For Alex Rodriguez
And it seems Alex Rodriguez is making sure new girlfriend Jennifer Lopez gets an education in his sport, taking her along to a New York Yankees Spring Training game on Saturday. But what he really wants her to learn – is HOW TO SAY OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT.
“Alex is very private and he hates that Jen needs soooo much public attention. He likes her but he likes his privacy more,” sources tell NAUGHTY GOSSIP. “If she doesn’t learn the privacy rules very fast, he will dump her. He doesn’t like being in the magazine and cannot understand how the photographers always know where they are. He is starting to think that someone in her team is tipping them off. He has had it with all these leaks to the press.”
The new – and apparently besotted – couple were seen riding a golf cart together at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. They were there to watch the Yankees face off against the Baltimore Orioles.
They’ve recently been spotted holidaying in the Bahamas, where J Lo posted and quickly deleted a social media selfie that appeared to show him nuzzling her ear.
This Thursday evening, both the pop star and the baseball player were seen emerging from the swank restaurant Casa Tua in Miami.
A-Rod was previously married to Cynthia Scurtis from 2002 to 2008, and they’ve got two daughters: 12-year-old Natasha and 8-year-old Ella.
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If you could pop over to the ol’ supermarket and plop a tub of Organic Purple Haze Sweet Cream Butter into your cart as easily as a pack of eggs, I suspect there would be entire Anthony Bourdain-esque markets devoted to the art and appreciation of cannabis food.
Since we still live in a gerrymandered mixed bag of legality in the US, often one must first procure cannabis and then go through the sometimes time consuming process of extracting actives from the herb. The availability of a device that’s made specifically for this purpose is proof that the cogs are squeaking to a start and that eventually inertia will take over.
The Magical Butter machine is definitely unique as far as cooking devices go, and its sealed and stirred and evenly heated features confirm your butters, oils and even tinctures will be stronger than ever. In my kitchen, using it would replace three appliances and two steps in the process.
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Thoughts on the Magical Butter 2 Device
Following their instructions, I decarbed some Sour D and hit the buttons, hoping for a Space Age butter experience. I used the same ratio of butter/herb that I normally use, just in the scale of the machine, meaning I had to make about twice what I normally make, volume wise, since it’s a bit bigger than I had thought it was going to be.
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This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because aside from reducing steps, it adds up to less time making butter and cleaning and more time making recipes. Also, the butter it produced smelled much more intensely of cannabis than my typical at-home version, in line with the time and temp it spent in the device, with a temperature identical to my normal procedure, but a cook time twice that.
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It makes a fair bit of noise and isn’t completely scent-less, but it’s miles better than throwing the goods in a slow cooker or praying that your kitchen vents take care of most of the smell. This means if you aren’t in a 100% sanctioned situation, you don’t have to make things in the dead of night when no one can smell it.
The cleanup was also a little trickier, but again, this beats the hell out of using plastic vac bags that are bad for the environment in the long term. It even comes with reuseable tools for straining that are much more efficient and higher quality than similar tools not made for this purpose.
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Since the ratio they have in their cookbook is also on the ‘lighter’ side, after eating something, I suspect the butter is actually stronger. Overall this device is great for its purpose, and it would be really helpful for many infusions, not just Cannabis ones.
In fact, it has a no-heat setting and times That could easily be used to make some fantastic cosmetics and naturopathic extracts. Not to mention that also allows for the more intensive and hard-to-create RSO and alcohol cannabis tinctures. It’s well worth the $174 if you’re making infusions on a monthly basis, let alone if you’re a frequent experimenter.
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I tried the butter in my basic (but still interesting) brownies, here’s the recipe:
Basic(ish) Fudge Nut Brownies
Danielle Guercio 2011
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Yields 30 1inch brownies, estimated 12 mg of THC per serving
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup flour
2 eggs
½ cup chocolate syrup
½ cup Magical Butter according to their recipe, or other cannabis butter, melted
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
¼ c cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp almond extract
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Preheat oven to 300. Mix together dry ingredients. Beat eggs and melted butter into chocolate syrup.
Fold in dry ingredients gently and mix until uniform. Dispense into a baking pan 13×9 or individual molds. Bake for 15 minutes, rotate and bake for 15 more at 300 degrees. Allow to cool on wire racks before popping out of mold or cutting in any way.
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After munching, I feel like the brownie was not only stronger in aroma, but definitely stronger that what is normally put out in a home kitchen. The effects were similar since I used a strain that I’m used to, but much more pronounced than normal. The only way to be sure is lab testing, but based on observational clues, I’d call it a winner.
Every state in the nation could be on track to legalize marijuana for medicinal or recreational use by the year 2021, suggests a new report.
Last year will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the biggest in the grand scheme of pot reform across the United States, with voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada deciding to bring down the scourge of prohibition, once and for all. These states have joined Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska in running a tax and regulated cannabis trade that allow adults 21 and over to buy weed in the same manner as they do alcohol.
According to the latest research by GreenWave Advisors, the marijuana legalization movement is on the cusp of expanding into a significant number of additional states within the next few years. Already, there is momentum to get marijuana-related initiatives on the ballots in 2018 and 2020, which could lead to marijuana being made legal in all 50 states within the next four year, reports the Motley Fool.
At this point, the only deterrent would be if President Trump and his Attorney General (Jeff Sessions) decide to send in the cavalry to dismantle the marijuana industry in states that have already established a legal trade. But that seems to be easier said than done.
During a recent interview with national talk radio host Hugh Hewitt, Sessions admitted that, “It’s not possible for the federal government, of course, to take over everything the local police used to do in a state that’s legalized it.” What’s more is, while AG Sessions is not a fan of marijuana legalization, the goal of Trump’s Department of Justice seems to be more focused on crippling the drug cartels rather than businesses operating in legal states. Yet, there are still no guarantees that legal weed is safe.
If the industry manages to stay intact, GreenWave predicts the nationwide marijuana market could be worth approximately $30 billion in retail sales alone by 2021.
A similar report published earlier this year by Arcview Market Research and New Frontier Data shows the whole of the national cannabis industry could be worth around $22 billion by 2020. The report shows the market would likely contribute more than a quarter of a million of new jobs to the American workforce, which is more than the manufacturing and government sectors combined
Now more than ever, people are looking to legal marijuana as a salvation’s wing for local and state economies. In just the past two weeks, The Fresh Toast has reported on how communities in Pennsylvania and Ohio are looking to their respective state’s medical marijuana laws to put hundreds of people back to work. These blue-collar towns are simply looking to resurrect the American Dream at a time when traditional industries have left them for dead.
Perhaps it is for this reason that more Americans now support the legalization of marijuana than ever before. Some of the latest national data shows that around 60 percent of the population believes weed should be handled in a manner similar to beer.
But it is going to take an act of Congress to bring this concept to life – something that doesn’t seem likely to happen anytime soon.
Although some marijuana reformers often create hype around the issue each time a federal marijuana bill attracts an additional co-sponsor, there is still nowhere near enough support on Capitol Hill to bring the nation anywhere close to ending prohibition.
Chris Evans Was How Old When He Lost His Virginity?
Before he became a Hollywood superstar, Evans was an intern in New York City. He spent his time hanging with friends and looking forward to moving to Los Angeles to pursue his acting ambitions.
“I know I’m going to L.A. in August,” he said about the days during his internship. “So I go home and that spring I would wake up around noon, saunter into high school just to see my buddies, and we’d go get high in the parking lot. I just fucked off.”
An insider says, “Angie couldn’t stand being around Amal …… Not because Amal was rude or unkind, but solely because Angie was filled with envy. Angelina would even slam Amal’s looks and fashion sense.”
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A teenager in Australia nearly lost his arm after he jumped into a crocodile-infested river on a dare and was attacked by one of the ginormous reptiles. The only thing that saved the 18-year old was his quick punch to the croc’s head.
The West Australian reports the 18-year-old man underwent surgery Saturday, hours after he jumped into the Johnstone River at Innisfail. The teen was reportedly climbing out of the water onto a wharf when the croc leapt from the water and seized the teen’s left arm. He likely would’ve have been dragged to his death had he not punched the croc in the head with his free right hand.
The teen’s friends also helped rescue him, which seems only fair because they were the ones who dared him to make the jump in the first place.
“Circumstances that led up to this attack are quite sketchy but reports from the scene are that he was dared to jump into the water, which he did,” Queensland Ambulance Service senior operations supervisor Neil Noble told The West. “Unfortunately the area is well known for its crocodile population and we’re grateful that he survived this incident because it could have turned out to be quite fatal.”
As you’ll no doubt be shocked to find out, the teens were reportedly drinking before the incident.
Elaborate proposals are all the rage now. What was once an intimate, romantic moment is now a big production, with hidden cameramen or choreographed routines or a custom-made video. Generally, the proposals end with an enthusiastic or emotional “yes,” but on occasion they end with a helicopter ride to the hospital.
Just such an occasion took place last week in Phoenix, Arizona, where George Begalla invited his girlfriend Katie Woodford on a hike up Camelback Mountain. Begalla planned on proposing to her once they reached the summit.
Everything went as planned…at first. “She said yes. We hugged. We kissed. We got the round of applause,” Begalla told 3TV.
Then things took a turn for the worse. “We were really excited and all of a sudden she started to say, ‘I’m not feeling good.’ I could see she was getting pale and she went down slow and asked for help,” he said.
Not long after calling for help, Woodford was airlifted from the mountain. Then paramedics checked Begalla and discovered that he too needed help, so he was airlifted down as well. Both were treated at a hospital for dehydration.
“I was absolutely terrified,” Begalla. “I mean, I just proposed and I’m seeing the woman I love really suffering, and it definitely made me appreciate her more and I definitely think it brought us closer together.”
The happy couple plans on getting married this weekend in Nevada. Hopefully, no helicopters or IVs will be required at the ceremony.
On Thursday, a pro golfer named Cody Gribble calmly tapped the tail of a gator lurking near a pond at the 6th hole of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida, sending the large reptile scurrying into the water. One day later, the gator—apparently emboldened by the tap—returned to terrify a different golfer.
One hand in his pocket, golfer Cody Gribble nonchalantly dispatches alligator into Bay Hill lake pic.twitter.com/f4LbULruWc
As the excellently-named Smylie Kaufman was strolling confidently by the same pond on Friday, he appeared to believe he was heading towards a rock when he suddenly realized the the object in his way was not a rock at all–it was actually a large gator. Kaufman quickly leaped back and raised his club in a defensive manner, then continued walking away from the massive reptile in horror.
A friend recently passed along a theory that future generations will consider contemporary men’s faces really, really strange. That reason is facial hair, as clean-shaven bare jawlines are definitively out. Even your male friend doesn’t grow a full-on beard or curly mustache, slacking on the shaving and developing some serious scruff in between is more accepted than it’s ever been.
Still, we appreciate the men who commit all the way with their facial hair. Walking around South by Southwest, we couldn’t help noticing all the unique and off-color beards coming across our path. After all, Austin and beards just go together. Check out our favorites in the gallery.
Our tongues are still coated with artificial green dye inherent to St. Patrick’s Day, and yet, Easter is already in the air. At least in candy aisles, where orange-foiled, carrot cake flavored Hershey’s Kisses nervously await the hordes of sticky fingers that will soon be yanking them off shelves and into baskets.
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The carrot cake flavor was introduced last year. And it’s a mixed bag of opinions.
Some people attest that the candy tastes exactly like carrot cake, while others say it misses the mark completely.
So today I bought carrot cake Hershey’s kisses…. What the fuck is life and why is it so beautiful?
