3 hours ago

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Any moment, the snow will start to swirl around your window (ok, it's 75 degrees here today, but I'm looking at the calender, not out the window). The holidays are just around the corner, and since you probably work a shitty service industry job, that means as the days get shorter, your hours get longer . . . and, what's m (Read More)

16 hours ago

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs Every once in a while you get to see a mainstream outlet cover a story right alongside a blog, so you can put them up against each other and see why one was so much better than the other. This week TechCrunch and the New York Times (photo) provided just such a lesson.The issue was a company called Zynga, which makes online (Read More)

1 day ago

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News Massive and unremarkable, the Terrace Apartments was subdued Saturday as residents displaced by the police shooting the night before returned to their homes. (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: House, 1977, a comedy/fantasy/horror/Japanese movie. It’s playing at Central CinemaHausu (House)How to describe Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 movie House? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory h (Read More)

3 days ago

Boing Boing Image via Sandy Austin's FlickrPeople always ask me what I like to do in Tokyo. What's fun? What's cool. Well here's my dirty secret. Most nights, I sit in my parents' living room and watch silly game shows while drinking green tea and eating persimmon. SujeonggwaPeel and thinly slice 2 inches of fresh ginger root. Bring th (Read More)

5 days ago

Submitted by Chromjuwelen from Google Reader: *Dueling tattoo legends & bosom buddies-- Al Schiefley (left) & Les Skuse (right)*Yep.  On a tattoo kick again.  Check out these sick pics and you’ll know why.  This ain’t no Miami Ink — this is Olde School, Hard-Ass Tats.The legendary tattooist, and founder of the Sandusky Tattoo Club, Al Schiefley lived and worked out of (Read More)

4 days ago

Boing Boing Boyhowdy sez, "The folk covers of Straight to Hell I compiled last year were so well-received by your readers, I thought you might also be interested in this week's entry, which compiles folk and acoustic covers of more songs from Punk's first and second waves. From banjo-tinged Stooges covers to countrified Blondie, sing (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: The Henry Art Gallery owns all 30 of Allan Sekula's WTO protest photographs, and is only showing 10 because of limited wall space on the mezzanine. Then don't use the mezzanine! The full set should be up.That complaint aside, even with just 10 we get a chance to see how heroically Sekula set out to be Zen about the protests (Read More)

5 days ago

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Not that we need an excuse to dine at any of Ethan Stowell's restaurants--hello, How to Cook a Wolf--but unloading our cork collection in the name of the environment and a newsworthy discount is as good as any. From November 1-December 31, pack your pockets and purses with corks to dine at any Ethan Stowell restaurant an (Read More)

6 days ago

Boing Boing The secret: It's not the creepy chemical additive you thought. A couple of weekends ago, I caught an episode of the public radio show "The Splendid Table" with soothingly voiced chef Lynne Rossetto Kasper. The topic was BBQ and I was shocked (Shocked!) to hear Lynne* and her guest recommend liquid smoke as the key to great (Read More)

7 days ago

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Last weekend, after feasting on fifteen intricate and gorgeous courses prepared by chef Curtis Duffy at Avenues Restaurant in Chicago’s Peninsula Hotel, I am having a difficult time blogging about my simple peasant food. The meal there was a work of art and an inspiration, and I will post about it as soon as I have gathered (Read More)

Nov 01, 2009

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Movie Trailers - The Men Who Stare At Goats: YES! George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey. (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

New York Times Paganism has done much in the last generation to overcome its perception as either Satanism or silliness. . (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: International Association of Cynics, Ne'er-Do-Wells, and Misanthropes I had forgotten I made this. I wonder what Foedus Potulentum Abdignitates means?. (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Energy Secretary Stephen Chu is recently on the record stating, "The American public, just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act." We also hear statements that the United States is 5% of the world's population but uses 25% of the world's energy. The United States is also criticized for being t (Read More)

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