#Astroburger

[carpediemtempusfugit]

[hitchell-mope]

Oh SHIT!!!!

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

WHERE THE RETRO ROADSIDE MEETS THE VINTAGE SPACE AGE OVER BURGERS & FRIES.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the retro/vintage space age design of the former Astroburger restaurant/roadside diner in Kramer Junction, Boron, CA. 📸: "Vintage Roadside" & Joseph Allen.

Sources: www.flickr.com/photos/vintageroadside/6939841611 (Flickr 2x).

[matthewgrantanson]

Astroburger, Los Angeles -- September 10th, 2023

Etsy

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Ok, giving you an update as I finish up Season 3!

Claiming Liv for BPD rep. With the mood and Personality swings (+ related interpersonal problems) I feel very seen :)

This might me just my Aro vision making it hard to see, but I don’t get MajorxLiv. Like with all the other pairs, there’s a path there or they shared interests and worked their way closer. But with these two we’re just told that they are meant for each other because ??? , but everytime they are together it’s just…why?

Liv has had better chemistry with every single one of her dead Boyfriends and she deserves better

Watching Blaine go from the main villain to that annoying bastard you can’t get rid of makes me so proud! I love characters like that! He’s the best, I wish him to never achieve his dreams! :D

On that note, the series has consistently fun villains. Good Job!

Big fan of the Meal montages that started with Season 2. And with how the brains keep their colour and consistency unless turned into mush. As brains are known to be x)

Fillmore-Graves has taught me that my armor for puns is still sore

I just like Jimmy, I’m glad he keeps showing up. He hates working with the Morgue Crew so much and it is so funny!

Fave episodes: “Astroburger” “Fifty Shades of Grey Matter” “Eternal Sunshine of the Caffeinated Mind” “Zombie Knows Best” “Looking for Mr. Goodbrain 1+2”

4 more days and 2 Season to go!

*braces for the LARP Episode*

!! You weren’t lying when you said you were speed-running! I was worried you might not be able to make it through the show before the end of June but you’re making headway!

- Oh, I love that (re: Liv BPD rep) – I never thought about it before but that is really interesting to explore! Tbh I often think of the zombism as a metaphor, e.g. Liv’s early zombism as a parallel to the PTSD symptoms that someone would experience after the boat party. And some specific brains having her adopt different neuro-types (e.g. the “hot mess brain” really struck a chord with me as someone with ADHD) – and the thing is, BPD would also make a lot of sense, especially with the age of onset often being in someone's 20s. Plus, it makes me even think in literal terms and not just metaphorical ones – Liv always seems to be more strongly affected by the brains than most other zombies on the show and I think it would have been interesting to explore how zombism and related brain-effects would interact with different mental health conditions and neurotypes. (The thing is, I have at least the working theory that the underlying personality as well as the willingness to engage with the new personality affects how and how strongly zombies are affected. A big example for me is Liv having a vision the very moment she ate one of Lowell's orphan brains while he could surpress it. Or in Conspiracy Weary, when Liv, Blaine and Don E are on the same brain and Liv does stuff like putting gum on her friends' webcams and wants to protect them, Don E likes to talk about celebrities (we see him do that on other occasions like with Christina Ricci or Gwyneth Paltrow) and Blaine is very opinionated on Tupac and the symbolism of Makaveli (music being a big deal to him)

-- The thing is, I think MajorxLiv might just be one of the most contentious topics in the fandom. I know people who really love them together and the tragedy and drama and the doomed-lover-ness of it all and I know others argue more from the point that such a major (ha!) point of the show is deconstructing the seemingly perfect life Liv had at the beginning of the show and he realisation that it wasn’t perfect at all and that she mostly lived for the expectations of others and didn't really have anything that mattered to her. And that part of that should have been realising that Major and her weren’t meant to be married-two-kids-picket fence and that they should have just embraced being friends and that it defeats the narrative. I also think it might be because they’re one of the only couples we don’t see originally falling in love – with Peyton and Ravi and Clive and Dale we see what attracted them to each other in the first place and watch their relationships develop (though I must say that I have more fun with Clive/Dale than with Peyton/Ravi but that’s no hate on the latter, I just enjoy the dynamic between Clive and Dale more). But Liv and Major were a thing from the beginning and you can tell that the writers very much prioritised them over other relationships these two had (rip Nathalie especially, you deserved so much better) which I alo think leads to some frustration. Personally, I don't really feel that strongly about it either way but I wish there were some aspects that they had gotten into more. Also, I wish they had prioritised Liv dealing with the deaths of so many of her boyfriends more?? Dude, the trauma of that. The guilt!

--- REAL. It goes from Blaine being a child-butchering monster to Blaine and Don E being the Pinky and the Brain of zombism (and also having the main-gang on speed dial). I like that they didn’t even go the route of redeeming Blaine or making him less evil. He actually continues to do things just as evil (and worse) than what he did in season 1. But even the morgue gang doesn’t really prioritise stopping or killing him anymore. I bet they run into each other in supermarkets or at the bank sometimes lmao.

I think it’s partially because he’s the long-distance runner of iZombie villains – most of the other baddies contain their evil to one season, maybe one-and-a-half. So it’s much easier to keep track of where they wronged you. With Blaine, the list is so long, it’s really hard to keep track of it all. Plus, a lot of his schemes don’t even directly affect the gang or they never learn about them. The show just gives like…a good amount of screen-times to tuning in to Shady Plots or the Scratching Post to show us what stupid schemes these two clowns are up to. (Also, I like that David Anders said that Blaine actually really likes the morgue squad and spending time with them. Those are his best friends who hate him <3)

----I also kind of dig that the meal montages really only started happening with season 2. Because early on, Liv’s zombie meals being more depressing (the instant noodles she does in the pilot for example) makes a lot of sense because she still feels defeated and lost being a zombie. But later on, she starts having fun with it! And I think it goes well with stuff like her refusing to tan or dye or putting on a scratchy wig – she really starts owning being a zombie and the fun meals are part of it!! I love that for her!

----- iZombie drinking game: Always taking a sip when there’s a silly pun somewhere. (doctors do not recommend this)

------- They put so much energy and thought and screen-time into their non-primary cast! Jimmy! Vampire Steve! Enzo! Johnny Frost! They’re just like: “here’s another perplexing little guy. We will not elaborate.”

--------- These are all fun! I always find it kind of hard to say which one of my favourite episodes are but I also really like The Whopper for all the drama happening there and Conspiracy Weary – Oh, and in season 4 you have Brainless in Seattle and Goon Struck coming up which I also really love (you might already be there, even. Not to spoil but: Major and Don E on a roadtrip! That was fun.). And in season 5 The Scratchmaker and the noir episode are really fun!

[darcycarmela]

Watched S1E11 "Astroburger"

[eatmysmellyfeet]

saw this comment on the limc Oppenheimer video:

I feel as if the Man was dead set on perfecting the project to actually consider the possible repercussions, like, he was so focused on finishing the bomb to actually think of what the bomb was going to be used for, literally a “Yes, I did it, oh shit, I did it” moment.

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i do recommend watching the video in question, oppenheimer just isn't a person that i had a lot of sympathy for. (i mean its still funny too dunk on him no argue there) but i think i personally ought to try to view the world from a more nuanced angle.

Forgive the tangent; but in order for me to graduate highschool, due in part to my own fuckups, i had to take supplementary online courses to get all the credits needed to get the hell out of there. Now unfortunately, i'm still me. So the actual completion of these courses took "longer than strictly necessary" by that i mean, I didn't fucking do them. Last minute shit you know the deal. For pretty much an entire week all i did was school (my circadian rhythm has been off since), i hardly sleep, barely ate and was scared as shit. but hey i graduated i got my god damn diploma and nobody saw me again. "holy shit i did it." my mom got me astroburger then i slept for like 16 hours,

me graduating highschool by the skin of my teeth is probably a silly way to try to understand and relate to the guy who built THE KILL EVERYONE BOMB, actually its probably quantifiably stupid. but like when i comes to something high stakes, what else can you do but do it.

god, i sound like a nike ad, empathy doesn't really come easy to me, I'm not a fucking newtype. i was a scary piece of shit in school who lied as easy as breathing and never did anything productive, i don't know how i had any friends. but like, this oppenheimer guy is directly responsible for THE KILL EVERYONE BOMB

i don't think he would know why he had any friends either.

[hollywoodscum]

wish you were here

[hitchell-mope]

Oh Gordy

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

MORE TUMBLR COVER PHOTOS -- AMERICANA, KITCSCH, COMICS, & METAL.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a handful more horizontal photos and/or illustrations used as cover photos for my Tumblr profile.

Included are some American comic-book stuff, the UK's GIRLSCHOOL, a vintage roadside restaurant sign, KISS' 1974 self-titled debut photoshoot, a shot from a 1986 IRON MAIDEN concert, and more.

Sources: Flickr, the Guardian, Ultimate Classic Rock, Pinterest, Off the Beaten Panel, Random Happenstance, etc...

[findingsally8870]

Got introduced to #astroburger in #westhollywood back in 1994, where I tasted my first #gardenburger and never looked back. Still as good as they ever were! #bestburgerever #reward #cheatmeal #somethingsneverchange #yummy (at Astro Burger) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcZhzpWLr4Z_C2HhzhIFXUusZB2OeFvrURSGR40/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[travelhopupu]

more Old school punk rock! #circlejerks #bootsbandanasandchains #punkrock #oldschoolpunkrock #starwood #slamdance #stagedive #rodneybingenheimersenglishdisco #okidog #astroburger #feryouz #hopupulife (at House of Blues Anahiem) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaNHXguJhg9qAAKNPIZ7w4SJAZo9inPR1sGLgY0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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@bjaverell just won't stop trying to promote Astro Burger! He left some art bags when he came over the other day. #art #astroburger #skeletor (at Los Angeles, California)

[perks-of-being-absolutelynothing]

not my photo just my blue 

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[beaniesburgerblog-blog]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the very first Burger Blast! I decided to start with three fairly popular examples; AstroBurgers (otherwise known as Apollo Burgers), Wendy’s, and Burger King. As will be the standard for these reviews (mainly because I like them the most out of the basics), these are bacon cheeseburgers.

After the pictures were taken, each burger had two small pieces cut out of it, one each for me and my dad, who helped with the grades. My mom labeled them 1-3, then shuffled their places on the plates so that we wouldn’t be able to tell which was which. Both me and Dad were able to pick out the one from Astro easily, but he initially mixed up the Wendy’s and BK burgers.