Frogs Greifen Uns An II: Raumpatrouille Redux
As usual, Xeni at bOINGbOING is a bit late to the party and a little light on her research. She's apparently just discovered the swingadelic German space-opera from the 60s, Raumpatrouille (AKA Spaceship Orion), and writes: "I'd never heard of "Raumpatrouille" before this week."
Maybe you should read my pal, The Cartoonist more often? He's only been posting fab Orion links and images for the past 3 or 4 years and has been linked to bOINGbOING multiple times.
[Link: The Cartoonist's Orion Archives]
[Link: YouTube Raumpatrouille clips]
Comments
Raumpatrouille ist wunderbar mein Herr! I loved watching it as a kid - today it's pure 'Kult'. Love the soundtrack ...
Posted by: orangeguru | July 1, 2006 1:20 PM
Jawohl! The soundtrack is brilliant; I downloaded it a few months ago.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | July 1, 2006 1:23 PM
Yeah, I caught that BB entry this morning and couldn't help thinking, "Geeze lady, we covered that on the ol' Exotica list back in the 90s."
I'm not terminally jaded, am I?
Posted by: M.Ace | July 1, 2006 2:29 PM
I don't think it's about being jaded so much, as it's about why the Xeni-fied BB is so totally sucktastic; she doesn't seem to check anything she posts to see if it's something a significant portion of the blogosphere already knows about.
Did you notice how much better it got while she was in Tibet? Maybe we can take up a collection and send her back.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | July 1, 2006 3:59 PM
Ohmygoodnessme - thank you, Sir!
Raumpatrouille was actually mentioned on BB? I was wondering why I'm getting all those silly comments over on YouTube.
Perhaps I should subscribe to the BB feed again.
Or rather not.
Anyway, Matt - lots of thanks. Ralf.
Posted by: The Cartoonist | July 1, 2006 4:48 PM
My pleasure, Sir Cartoonist. If not for you, I would never have learned to keep watching the skies for invading Frogs!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | July 1, 2006 4:53 PM
The Frogs are evil, they really are!
:-)
Posted by: The Cartoonist | July 1, 2006 5:45 PM