The League of Gentlemen Adventurers

Oh how I WISH I could take credit for this brilliant piece of video editing. Courtest of whoiseyevan via YouTube, this trailer shows us what might have been if Egon, Ray, Peter and Winston had started busting way back in the 1950′s. Given my love for wise-cracking adventurers,  the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road movies, and old time tech, I would really love to have seen Ghostbusters made like this. Take a moment and take a look, it’s quite brilliant.

Our apologies faithful adventurers, recent events have caused all of us here at the LGA Manor to be unavailable for podcasts or posts. We’re terribly sorry and thank you for your patience while we adjust to the loss of our recorder, audio editor and equipment man all via Gentleman Jesse leaving to start the Los Angeles Chapter of the League of Gentleman Adventurers. Our loss is their gain. We all wish you the best Sir and look forward to your eventual return!

In honor of our drinking podcast…

This design was suggested to me by Gentlemen Jesse and Lee. During their travels abroad, they discovered a sign featuring the staff with a snake intertwining it that symbolizes medicine or pharmacies (the Rod of Asclepius, although the Caduceus is also occasionally used) and both mistook the staff for a martini glass. Read into that what you will, but both agreed that the healing powers of the martini surely exceed anything available over the counter.

As regular listeners and/or readers have no doubt noticed, the League strongly supports drinking with both leisurely and adventurous activities. With that, I now present what we here at the LGA have deemed, “The Hippocratini”. The symbol of approval for drinking as the cause of, and solution to, many of life’s problems.

This was an amazing little piece of art I came across while doing some research recently. It’s a lithograph by Nathaniel Currier during the extremely popular (note the use of highly sarcastic italics there) Temperance Movement in the United States. In honor of our second Drinking podcast, I pass this warning on to you.

I’m happy to say that our current active LGA members seem to be hovering around Step 5 so far… although the argument could be made that some of us have advanced to Step 6.

I was walking in San Diego recently when, as I waited at a crosswalk, I noticed  that the nearby “Pedestrian Crossing” sign had been defaced. Someone had rather crudely drawn a big pair of googlie eyes on the poor chap trying to cross the street on the sign. This turned out to be a moment of inspiration for me and upon returning home, I sat down and sketched out this piece.

There are so many signs trying to call attention to so many things. It became clear to me that something people will want to watch for in the future will undoubtedly be a proper Gentleman Adventuring…