TO THE MUMBLING GLITCH-SOUL GURU bopping in Omaha parking lots: I hear you. I’m ready to embrace your teachings. I watch your channel and await further instructions.
A SLEW OF VINTAGE FREIGHT COMPANY PADS were my booty from Sarah’s recent trip to Salem (Oregon), quirky artifacts from the Early Modern era of office stationery scored at a flea market. They’re nice to have by a desk phone (preferably corded), with an in-between size and parchment-like surface that’s good for drawing. You gotta [...]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Among all the celebrated firsts, Jo’s first licensed character obsession isn’t a milestone I was excited about. But while it would be unthinkable with Disney Princesses or Hannah Montana, Hello Kitty has grown on me. Something about her inscrutability and projectability. And thus for Halloween I was convinced to carve her likeness in pumpkin. Johanna [...]
I recently went to TruValu looking for a manual aerator. Something to loosen up the soil for grass without the full-on assault of a fume-belching engine. Reasonable enough, right? I was unprepared for the scorn I received. Such a thing hadn’t been manufactured since the 1970′s, I was told. Instead of helping me find what [...]
Turns out Harry Allen a/k/a “the Media Assassin,” doesn’t just lurk around the PE water cooler like Professor Griff, but is, in fact, out there assassinating media ignorance. A short essay on racism in the new Old Navy commercial that white people probably can’t see. Why my local dry cleaner rocks (not only because it’s [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Links: 1) Soft Drink Generator: Can do 2) Fuck You, Penguin: Cute abuse 3) World country quiz: I’m not even going to say how bad I did 4) David Lee Roth soundboard: Oh God 5) Nothing Is New: Unexpected aesthetic finds Listens: 1) Marbles – Red Lights Featured in the upcoming Brain Lapse, issue 1 [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
I’ve created a permanent page for animated GIFs to help bring attention to this underappreciated artform: The GIF Box.
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Friday, November 28, 2008
My 89-year-old grandfather’s hip broke two weeks ago. He didn’t break it exactly, it just broke. Since that time, he’s been operated on, put in traction and left to languish in a hospital room until they get around to doing more surgery. It is not clear when he will be ready to leave. At his [...]
University of Arizona marching band does Talking Heads medley. Barak Obama walks down a street. Kitty plays theremin.