February 2012
10 posts
Achewood § August 11, 2004 →
Me going back to school
“And all the Ferrara Pan boxes can still be played like kazoos when they’re...”
– Nello Ferrara Dead: Creator Of Lemonheads, Atomic Fire Balls Candy Dies At 93
Just off the highway from where I grew up. And look at the nostalgia…what a different era he was from!
“I asked him what was going on. He said to me, ‘This is too good for you guys....”
– Classic Tracks: Prince’s “Kiss”
The thing about 998,001 is... →
“I also stopped reading twitter and facebook regularly, because most of my online...”
– Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The Wirecutter
“It’s a great medium for the non-confrontational, frustrated, maladjusted...”
– Chris Onstad on His Return to the Uncanny ‘Achewood’ [Interview] - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
January 2012
34 posts
Hip Hop Family Tree - Boing Boing →
Fantastic reading on the roots of hip-hop. Must-read, and excellent art style as well.
“The fight cemented a set of stock characters — the fast-talking, ultra-talented,...”
– Brian Phillips on the boxing career of freed American slave Tom Molineaux - Grantland
Blue Lines Revisited: What are people buying... →
tomewing:
Dipped my toe into the ever-circling “piracy debate” again this week: little new to be said. So this is a question I’ve wondered about a few times but not really seen answered. Let’s assume that the music industry has a point and that significant chunks of its core audience are spending less money…
“We’re on I-95, and she unhooks the pole, and she’s holding the morphine bag over...”
– The Lives They Lived - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
“Robert Merton: “Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your...”
– Language Log » Snowmanteaux
Cut the Rope →
“The robbery took place in Nice in 1976. A team of 20 men, led by Mr. Spaggiari,...”
– Albert takes a bubble bath « gimcrack hospital (PG)
Parents Drop Fake Treating-You-Like-An-Adult Act... →
“A lot of my songwriting in the Hold Steady has to do with this place in your...”
– Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn talks to us about his unflinching new solo album. (via pitchfork)
Joe Mohan, dance your dance: I’m paying attention and liking the wordwork of Craig Finn (probably because I can’t hear his voice).
“MR: Everyone loves to quote Oscar Wilde’s line about how all bad art is...”
– An Interview with Michael Robbins [by Robert P. Baird] - The Best American Poetry
How Not To Do Your Twenties: Goethe on Being in... →
hownottodoyourtwenties:
“We are so made that we compare everything with ourselves and ourselves with everything. Therefore, our fortune or misfortune depends on the objects and persons to which we compare ourselves; and for that reason nothing is more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, by its nature inclined to…
Look at These Fucking Boots! | VICE →
“The whole thing with LiveJournal, WordPress, and Blogspot was oversharing in a...”
– Some Tumblr-on-Tumblr analysis from Los Campesinos! frontman Gareth. (via pitchfork)
The Ballad of @Horse_ebooks | Splitsider →
surprisingly thought-provoking
Stealth Mountain (stealthmountain) on Twitter →
What twitter looks like from here
Northern Calloway, Sesame Street's David: 1948 to... →
Metafilter’s best of the year is fantastic, as to be expected.
This company wants to charge you for not... →
The author is missing the point - the people who would use this program are the ones who need to get punished (financially, here) before they’ll begin the process. That hurt is worth it to them! The shame will compel them to shape up or continue the revenue loss, I guarantee.
“Having concluded from the fact that he wasn’t dead that the bullet had not...”
– You’ve Been Shot | The Awl
December 2011
31 posts
Gunshow - The 26th →
Slow motion magnets →
science!
TWOYOUTUBEVIDEOSANDAMOTHERFUCKINGCROSSFADER.COM →
“He says that good games usually offer meaningful opportunities for achievement,...”
– The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit | Magazine
Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy
viafrank:
I’ve been thinking about Louis CK lately. I’m a fan of his show on FX, and I’m so happy his recent adventure in distributing his newest comedy special himself has been a rousing success. But my thoughts are going elsewhere to wonder why he has blown up in popularity in the past couple years, and why his comedy seems to resonate with these times. It always feels like there’s a...