The King of Braves is Born, Part One

There are a lot of giant robot cartoons out there. Voltron, Transformers, and Robotech are probably the first ones that I remember seeing as a kid. Yes, yes I know the whole Macross/Robotech thing. It was Robotech when I first watched it, so let’s move past that. Even with all those robots, my all time favorite is one I discovered much later in life. The King of Braves GaoGaiGar was a Japanese cartoon that ran from 1997-1998 and was followed up with an OVA called The King of Braves GaoGaiGar FINAL.

I’m doing something we haven’t done for a while here, a full weekend episode breakdown. So make sure you check back tomorrow for the conclusion of the episode. As you’re about to see, GaoGaiGar starts out strange and then builds from there. Over the 49 episodes things get really weird as the cast grows and grows. The amazing robot cast is best left for another article. Today we’re starting with the beginning.  Also this gets pretty long, so check out all the fun stuff after the break.

Flash Friday: Zazzle

Happy Flash Friday everyone! Over the past Flash Friday articles I’ve talked a lot about Flash merchandise. From shirts to phone covers we’ve covered a lot of ground. Today I’m going to talk about all those things and even more. Zazzle is one of those websites that creates items on demand. Want a specific picture on a coffee cup? In a few clicks and some money and they’ll make it and send it to you. When they first got the DC license they had a handful of Justice League designs, but nothing with just the Flash. Since then they’ve added a few things.

There are now 36 images just in the Flash category. Some of these are symbols, some are logos, and some are characters. There are a lot of images to choose from. Once you’ve picked the image you want you have to pick something to put it on. Zazzle offers different types of shirts, a few types of mugs, pins, stickers, mouse pads, skate board decks, hats, aprons, key chains, magnets, greeting cards, stamps, binders, and phone covers. The only real limitation is that a lot of the items have a white background, so if your perfect item needs to be bright red you will probably be disappointed.

I’ve ordered things from print on demand shops before. I was always a little disappointed with the shirts, but the other items were quite good. It’s very possible that the shirt process has improved greatly. Unfortunately I can’t review the quality of the Zazzle items, I haven’t put in an order yet. I will be ordering the coffee mug you see pictured above. I won’t be ordering the mouse pad. Just look at the picture. He just looks so disapproving, it’s like he already knows the websites I’m going to go to and he’s disappointed in me. I don’t need that kind of pressure while I’m online.

Hangover Thursday: Sidekicks

It’s Hangover Thursday, how’s your head? I’d suppose most people are taking their drinking easy this week in preparation for Super Bowl parties. Personally I’ve had a couple Black and Tans the past few days. I think having two a night would improve my overall view of the world. Things tend to seem better after two beers. Today’s Hangover Thursday is about Sidekicks. And while I could write numerous articles on my love for Short Round, I’m not talking about that kind of sidekick.

Sidekicks are shot glasses with a hidden compartment! Well, I guess it isn’t actually hidden since they are clear. The bottom compartment unscrews from the rest of the glass allowing you to drop in candy, peppers, or anything else you want to make your drinks more interesting. The bottom of the top portion is slotted, so any liquid you pour in will mix with the bottom compartment.

The glasses are made of hard plastic and a four pack will run you 20 dollars over at Think Geek. Sure shots with peppermints in the bottom sound neat, but I think you’d have to let them sit for a while to really get the flavor. The (no pun intended) coolest usage would be to drop some dry ice in the shots. I could see that going over really well at a Halloween party.

SWTOR- A New Meme

I am slammed at work today.  So I’m sharing a video that I can’t stop watching.  At seven minutes long, there should be something you find funny.

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam

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We try to make it very easy for you to leave us comments.  Putting more restrictions on that would decrease the Spam, but would decrease how easy it is for you to reply.  So for the time being we are keeping things the way they are right now.  If you do see one of these Spam comments before I can delete them, please don't click on them.  It only encourages them.

That F'ing Podcast

We here at That F'ing Monkey have been throwing the word podcast around for a little while now. What we need is some input from you, the Reader.


The show would be split into 3 main parts that fall along the Comics, Games, and Booze tracks. Those being pretty self explanatory as well as integrating things like beer recommendations from you. The show would most likely be about once a month and an hour long. So would you listen to Ken and I ramble on? Do you have any suggestions? As always Let Your F'ing Voice Be Heard in the comments, on our Facebook page, or click on the F'ing Email button.

New Painting Setup

Today I’m showing off my new painting setup! Let me start today’s entry by saying I am a very mediocre painter. In the coming weeks I’m going to be spotlighting the tips and items that I use to cover up my paint skills. Before we get to them though I have to talk about where I put all of these things together and since I just put together a new space to do all my painting I figured I’d show it off. I just set it last night, so you’ll notice that there aren’t any works in progress on the table.

The desk was something my mother found at a garage sale. It was initially intended for my wife, but she has found something that is more her style. That’s when I got the bright idea to use it as a painting table. On the top shelf is Game Workshop’s painting table. When I was originally just using our kitchen table to paint I needed something that was easy to pick up and put away. On the main desk surface is a really cheap cutting board, a desk lamp, and a portable DVD player. I like watching season sets while painting. Currently I’m on season 3 of Chuck. Before that were Black Sheep Squadron and BJ and the Bear.

Below the desk I have space to store my Battlefoam 720 troop carrier. We will definitely be talking about that in a later entry. The white container with the three drawers is my bits box. I get pretty OCD about bits, inside those drawers all the bits are grouped together in tiny zip lock bags. One bag is full of backpacks, another arms, another heads, etc… Below the Battlefoam are boxes for the two tanks and assault bike that I need to put together. I almost forgot, I use the Converse shoe box when I got to my local store and paint.  It's useful to carry around all my paint supplies.