A long long time ago, in a land far far from here, my friend Julia Winter and I were going to a show at Toad’s Place and went driving all over Connecticut beforehand to hole-in-the-wall military surplus stores. We found one which had a huge sort of vat enclosure, full to the brim with pairs […]
My block is generally bracketed by Russian (or possibly Armenian) gangsters in big black cars. They keep the neighborhood safe. Hollywood is probably pretty safe anyway. I occasionally hear gunshots at night, but never anything like an AK. Today, however, LAPD bookends my street instead. Rapper Ice Cube has been set up to shoot a […]
There is a sort of school of modern directors who often collaborate and make movies within movies. In the Grindhouse outing by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, Robert Rodriguez had a sort of faux trailer, within the movie, for a movie called Machete. Fans kept coming up to him and asking if this was a […]
The Two-Tailed Dog Party in Hungary is making some mighty attractive election promises: Eternal life! Free beer! Tax cuts! Money without work! There’s a 93 percent chance we won’t steal. You will be happy! We will promise anything. In terms of country infrastructure, the Two-Tailed Dog Party favors flooding the roads with beer on holidays, […]
I really like Eli Roth as a personality. He has a certain wit and charm and unstoppable DIY willingness to just go for it and stick to it, which I really enjoy. I find him most interesting as a writer and have been following him on Twitter just to read his random thoughts in 140 […]
So today is supposed to be Blog Day 2010. BlogDay founder Nir Ofir has been doing this since 2005. The idea is for bloggers to post links to five disparate blogs which are culturally alien reads. Each BlogDay post August 31, 2010 is supposed to be tagged as BlogDay2010. Bizarrely, this year, Technorati shows not […]
Vaughn Belak just relaunched his art web site. In addition to featuring new work, most of which features naked boobies, so I can’t show it to you here, the site features flyers for past gallery shows and announces his forthcoming show. He will be having a “New solo show of monsters, zombies and undead ladies […]
It is no secret that I find Vladimir Putin hot. Russia’s best pinup just keeps upping the ante like an 80’s action movie supervillain. According to Russia Today, the city of Sevastopol hosts a yearly motorcycle rally to coincide with the anniversary of Russia’s, uhm, victory over the Nazis. (WWII buffs may feel free to […]
My fellow Wesleyan alum Jim Vincent posted this demotivational poster today. Not sure where it comes from, alas. He is afflicted with co-workers who play golf and refer to him as a LARP-er. So this was pretty perfect for him. I wish the SCA — Society for Creative Anachronism for the uninitiated — were less […]
So Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal is pretty much a genius. He sold an early social network he coded some years back, so I have no idea if he needs to sit at home creating antisocial quizzes and hilarious webcomics. But, need to or not, he does. Today’s entry is Why Working at Home is […]