She’s mostly not plugged in, but there’s one video game that suits her:
This is Bill Griffith’s Zippy the Pinhead cartoon, so of course the violent vehicular combat game Carmageddon, with its portmanteau name (compare carchitecture, here), is real, not some fevered fiction of Griffith’s: first released in 1997, now in a series of three, with overall sales of around two million.
July 14, 2011 at 6:07 am |
July 14, 2011: carmageddon is the word of the weekend in Los Angeles, what with the I-450 freeway closing down for construction work over the weekend.
July 14, 2011 at 2:28 pm |
[…] portmanteau carmageddon (with the element -mageddon rapidly gaining libfix status) got a mention on this blog back in February, in connection with a Zippy cartoon. And now Barry Popik, on his […]
July 19, 2011 at 8:49 am |
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