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Yaphet Kotto Week - A-Team Villain

Eastside Charlie

















Thanks to my main home slice Seth over at Lost Video Archive I was invited back once again to participate in a week of great reviews by blogs with one goal in mind, to honor the prolific yet highly underrated actor, Yaphet Kotto. It was a blast participating in Blair Week a few months back and after watching The Chilling numerous times it could only get better right? Right! I got to watch a single A-team episode over and over. "The Out of Towners" guest starring our honoree Yaphet Kotto followed the series' usual formula: assess, build, battle, resolve.

Assess: Local New York business owners are being extorted by Eastside Charlie (Kotto) and his goons. Desperate, the shop keeps call on the help of our favorite fun loving mercs, the A-team. B.A. Baracus cases Charlie's lounge and the boys promptly bust in with Uzis and threats.

Build: After agreeing to meet the following day to handover the stolen cash, the A-Team heads back to the affected businesses' neighborhood and builds a sewer booby trap, Molotov cocktails, and a mobile armor-plated defense station made from an oil drum in case things get hairy.

Battle: Boom, bang, nobody gets shot, A-Team dominates.

Resolve: The Alpha Team takes Eastside Charlie back to his safe to grab the cash and repay the shop owners. Faceman catches a ride from the local female taxi dispatcher.

Below is my tribute piece to the one and only Eastside Charlie, a man whose racket was dismantled by the infamous A-Team.






















Monday Nov. 15th
Unflinching Eye - Alien
Raculfright 13's Blogo Trasho - Truck Turner

Tuesday Nov. 16th
Lost Video Archive - Raid on Entebbe
Manchester Morgue - Friday Foster

Wednesday Nov. 17th
Booksteve's Library - Live and Let Die

Thursday Nov. 18th
Mondo 70 - Drum
B Movies and Beyond - The Monkey Hu$tle
Cinema Gonzo - Report to the Commissioner
Friday Nov. 19th
Illogical Contraption - Eye of the Tiger
Ninja Dixon - Across 110th St.
Lines That Make Things - The A Team (TV episode)
Things That Don't Suck - Blue Collar

Saturday Nov. 20th
Breakfast In the Ruins - Bone
Lost Video Archive - The Park Is Mine

HA!

The Defacing of a Wildlife Calendar - Pt. 5

The Unsheathening 3 - Spawn of Sheath

The Defacing of a Wildlife Calendar - Pt. 4

Pasta Surprise

Kung Fu Grindhouse Poster - August 2010

The Defacing of a Wildlife Calendar - Pt. 3

...Of the 29th Century

Sonic Cavalry

FTL

Bathroom Fan

The Defacing of a Wildlife Calendar - Pt. 2

Night Trap

The Defacing of a Wildlife Calendar - Pt. 1

The Chilling - Various Observations

In collaboration with a selection of the finest film blogs the infranet has to offer Lines That Make Things is proud to contribute this quality post to Blair Week, a six day extravaganza expounding on the virtues of Linda Blair and her legacy of quality motion pictures. Don't believe me? Check this out...

The illustration below is a fairly acurate translation of a drawing I feverishly scribbled down in my sketchbook while watching The Chilling. It includes some of my favorite quotes and observations. If it all seems random, don't blame me, blame the movie. Be sure to check out Happy Otter for more Chilling content on friday as well as all the other great Blair Week posts listed below.



Our colleagues are bringing fresh Linda related content all week long:

Monday May 10:
Lost Video Archive - Savage Streets
Satan's Hope Chest - Chained Heat and Savage Island

Tuesday:
Camp Movie Camp - Grotesque
The Horror Section - Hell Night.

Wednesday:
Illogical Contraption gets Repossessed
Breakfast In the Ruins - Exorcist II

Thursday:
B Movies and Beyond - Summer of Fear
Camp Movie Camp - Nightforce

Friday:
The Manchester Morgue - Rollerboogie
Happy Otter - The Chilling
Ninja Dixon - The Witchery

Saturday:
Lost Video Archive - Born Innocent
Unflinching Eye wraps it up with a look at Linda's fall from grace.

Toofers

Derbo

Kung Fu Grindhouse Poster - April 2010

Kung Fu Grindhouse Poster - March 2010

Various Retreatments

Sho'nuff!!

RIP VHS Part 2

Illustration by The Goodkind with additional lettering added by myself.

RIP VHS Part 1

"The Flamer"

My friend Rob owns a crappy old Toyota Tercel. It was destined to have spray painted flames on it. I made that happen. After 8 years the fire has faded a bit but the legend lives on. A classy chassis indeed.

Lazer to the face

M-m-m-magic

Lizard the Clown

Sketchbook - Beware: Wolf

Sketchbook - Tree

Sketchbook - Strudel

Sketchbook - Feather of the Screeching Falcon

True Story

I went to visit a fine young lady today in the electronics department. She was holding a DVD that I had my eye on. When I met up with her she proclaimed how bored she was. It was slow at the time and she had a couple hours left until she was off.

“It’s been a crazy day, crazy people.”

“Are any of them still here?”

She glanced over at the DVD section and nodded. The only person over there was a wild haired guy perusing the cases.

“he usually comes in with a helmet”

Like many times before I walked around the department looking at various games and accessories while my lady friend walks and talks with me. I veer towards the wild hair guy. We stop and talk about the latest Screamers sequel. Out of nowhere the wild hair guy proclaims,

“My brother said there was a new format coming out after Blu-ray.”

I look at him and reply with a smile,

“Oh yeah? They gonna call it Pink-ray, or Red-ray maybe?

He stares at me for a second as I wait patiently for any response to my horribly pathetic joke. He glazes over, his body gradually tilts backward. Anchored on his heels and stiff as a board he falls backward past the point of any recovery. His shoulders slap the hard linoleum and the back of his head meets the ground with a dense bouncing thud. Shocked, I stepped toward him to see if he was conscious. He moved, but was silent.

“Are you alright? Did you have a seizure?”

He was dazed but sat up. The back of his head was bloody. A crowed started to gather. Someone brought a chair while another called the paramedics. I helped him up into the chair. He said he was epileptic. A first aid bag was brought out and an instant ice pack was feebly slapped on the ground by a store manager to activate it. I took it from her, squeezed it and it mixed the chemicals with a few shakes. The paramedics showed up shortly after. The manager thanked me and I paid for my DVD and left. I felt bad. I was scared for the guy even though he was relatively okay. He should have worn his helmet. If nothing else I can claim with absolute truth that my jokes are seizure inducing.

Sketchbook - Slumpty Dump

Letter Cult

Many thanks goes out to Brian Jaramillo for including my zombie piece in Letter Cult's "The Best of the First Half 2009"

Tons of great lettering is compiled there so be sure to check it out.

Sketchbook - Hamster Burial

Godfrey Ho is undefeatable