Naughty Pinups reports that Dita Von Teese is doing a special branded collection of stockings with Secrets in Lace. Secrets in Lace specializes in nostalgic structured lingerie, such as fully fashioned stockings, so the synergy with retro superstar Dita Von Teese is obvious. Forrest Black and I were at a friend’s housewarming party this past […]
Matthew Vaughn directed and co-wrote the movie Kick-Ass, which opens this week. His past work is why I’m interested in seeing this, despite the fact that the ordinary life superhero comedy has been done so wretchedly badly recently e.g. Superhero Movie. Matthew Vaughn directed the excellent modern noir Layer Cake, which starred a pre-James Bond […]
Maxim Golovatskikh might be hot and in a band, but he is a butcher. Well, actually a year ago that was pretty literally true, on multiple levels, but he has been in jail awaiting trial since then. See Maxim Golovatskikh was a goth boy in a band who worked as a butcher to pay his […]
I love long form cable dramas and The Wire is my favorite of all time. So I’ve been looking forward to HBO’s Treme for quite some time. Treme is a brand new show created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. David Simon created The Wire and Eric Overmyer wrote a couple episodes. Both of them […]
Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing reports that Humboldt County farmers are sporting bumper stickers saying: Keep Pot Illegal For the non-Californians amongst you, Humboldt County is an area in California which is sufficiently north of San Francisco that it might as well be hippie Oregon. And the November ballot here in California is going to […]
I tend to read The Economist whenever I fly. It is usually available in airports and I find its coverage of pretty much everything that matters, with a particular focus on the economic impact of current events, to be thorough, interesting, and intelligent. The Economist recently held a summit in Berkeley, at the Haas School […]
I’m still not sure whether the Hello Kitty Beer was an actual Sanrio product. I’m thinking someone I know would have brought some to a party if it were. However, it is absolutely confirmed that there will now be a whole line of Hello Kitty wines. Not whines like, “I really want the citrine Hello […]
When I was around five-years-old, my father took me to the Easter Egg Hunt at the Harvard Club. Everything was colorful and I loved the puzzle of looking for all the hidden things. It was like hide-and-seek only better. When my father pointed out that I could find more foil-wrapped candies by looking for a […]
My friend Funkatron called my attention to the impending sea monster invasion with his usual calm cool and collected demeanor: “Yep, the robot is coming up, looks gooHOLY FUCKING SHIT OH MY GOD OH MY GOD GAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH” That would be the precise quote. Apparently, in these last days before the apocalypse, even scientists require something […]