July 2011
32 posts
In Honor of Shark Week
I hereby re-release song #10 from 52pickup, Jacques Cousteau:
Download/play here
That’s how he lives every week like it’s Shark Week:
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DIY Cat Surgery
So-called “experts” in the medical community don’t want you to believe it, but DIY cat surgery is totally possible!
Materials: One (1) bottle of ether, one (1) liter grain alcohol, two (2) prescription-level painkillers, One (1) X-acto knife, a spool of thread.
1. Hide X-acto knife in a safe place so you don’t cut yourself with it.
2. Distract cat with spool of thread.
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Instrumental EP, Anyone?
Post will be short today. Working with spreadsheets all morning emdullens* my English skills.
* Which is to say, it makes dull. See: Embiggen. Not even writing my own jokes today.
Speaking of English skills - I’m wondering whether people would appreciate hearing my music without my whateveritistoday-addled commentary as accompaniment. That is to say, would you enjoy an instrumental...
“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
An article describing the various ways in which this passage has been misunderstood and misquoted - oftentimes to the music industry - is here.
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Hockey Hair, Volume 1 of Many
Those of you familiar with this blog might recall the baseball card art that I posted a while back (SFW, with NSFW links inside the post; same deal here).
This morning, in the absence of substantive discussion, I decided to do a quick run through a pile of hockey cards and let fly with some great pics of early 90s hockey hair.
1. The Hrkac Circus. His 1986-7 Hobey Baker winning season at North...
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Terrible Rap by People with Advanced Media Access
I have wrestled with the idea of this post since I started writing in earnest, two whole weeks ago. I am not one to loudly proclaim that other artists suck. But then again, maybe these are not artists.
One of the most deflating things that I deal with on a daily basis is watching people with advanced levels of media access who are not rappers leverage their access to become rappers. Now there is...
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The FBI's Anonymous Raids (The FBI Raids...
In the past few days, the FBI has raided the homes of and arrested 14 hackers who were alleged to have been in involved in denial of service attacks on PayPal after the latter capitulated to Joe Lieberman and friends’ absurd demands and cut off funding to Wikileaks.
The FBI only managed to nab itself some low-hanging fruit, and to their credit don’t seem inclined to make examples of...
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““The question is,” said Alice,” whether you can make words...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Whom Do You Work For?
Just a note that I am waking up every morning and trying to do this. It’s a process, and it often involves sitting and staring at a blank computer screen, and sometimes my results are nothing at all. Seems that I always pick these sorts of processes, and never the kinds of processes that involve holistic health, mental well-being, or happiness. Just the blank computer screen processes. Like...
So August 26th is the mastering date for whatever...
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Good-bye, Space
The US launched its last space shuttle mission two Fridays ago, and it probably looked something like this:
It’s pretty clear that Responsible Decisions are being made here - we’re shaving off a billion here and a billion there so we don’t have to raise taxes on the middle class, or have taxes on rich people. But I think there’s a whole lot more at stake here. It...
Friday Ephemera, Which Would Be a Great Name for a...
1. I just got the most recent Uline catalog, which is a huge deal, because I was out of bathroom reading. Seeing as tape > digital, I went to check and see what was new in that department. Turns out there’s a product called “Quiet Tape,” which sounds awesome, or doesn’t sound awesome at all, on account of its quietude. But here’s the thing:
Now I want to purchase...
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Rob Potylo and the Lonely Planets
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As a music listener, and as other things as well, I am awash in contradictions. Specifically, I walk the fine line between not wanting to steal music, not wanting to download it illegally, and not wanting to listen to it, because I am tired. Add to that my current, financially-hampered push to purchase and listen to more records, iTunes’ increasing irrelevance (and...
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Obama Doesn't Want a Progressive Anything
Matt Taibbi’s blog piece this morning is titled “Obama Doesn’t Want a Progressive Deficit Deal,” and explains how it’s pretty clear that Obama doesn’t want a progressive deficit deal (RS blog’s headline writer is on point). It’s not that difficult to follow his logic, unless you really don’t want to.
I’m no policy wonk, but it seems to...
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This Is It
Welcome, officially, to the age of me, generating content.
I haven’t written regularly for a long time, which is a shame, because I am somewhat talented at writing. It’s one of those things that I really feel like I need to be in shape for - sort of like beach season - but it’s hard to get started. So I’m starting. I’m going to grab a cup of coffee and blurt out some...
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Yet another synth-soul sketch, for you for to...
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A Free Something to Anyone Who Uncodes This...
Found this hanging out in some old books that my sister gave me. I will mail some free something to the first person who can uncode it. It goes without saying that it is vital to national security that we* do this at once:
* we = someone else
The winning entrant will receive one free t-shirt that looks somewhat like this shirt, or perhaps this exact shirt, or the kitten, if you live in New...
Yet another sketch-up that will one day grow...
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I am going to get into the habit of posting...
