Yes, the man who killed Captain America, rendered in ink, back in 1992 when he was just an (alleged) ex-petty criminal and aspiring cartoonist. Just one day after I seem to have subconsciously channeled him into some doodles (see previous entry), I find Ed staring out at me from some 15-year-old sketchbooks while looking for drawings for a totally unrelated project. What does it all mean?
Been trying to find the style for a new draw on an old old script for a promotional mini that I’m doing as a split release with Poopsheet. discovered that my old pad of bristol was a bit too old and had sucked up some moisture or something as ink is bleeding on it more than I like. So, blew through those last 3 sheets with some style sketches… that were more doodle than anything thought out. This one had a great logo in outline that got pretty thoroughly ruined by filling it. Looking at the drawing today, I think it is supposed to be Ed Brubaker.
I was very sad today to read of the passing of Bob Rauschenberg. He has always been an artist who in some hard to define way has been an influence. He was partially the real life Frank Beam (if you know, you know). As I’ve been rediscovering the act of flowing ideas on to paper through pen and brush lately (yeah, sorry, low web activity because of that… that will continue for at least a couple of more weeks) this news hits me a bit on the side of the head for some reason.
great quote… “I don’t use ideas” oh, yeah. pure Beam.
radioguys have extended the voting on their remix thing ’til june one. give nickname: rebel your love and vote.
Dig if you will an amazing event going down at St Marks Church in NYC.
((im playing “function generator bass and samples” in BUNNYBRAINS tomorrow, friday))
This is part of a festival that starts tonight I’ve forwarded part of the email about it below, but even if u cant catch us, theres plenty of stuff going down so go to free103’s website to get all the dates n acts n stuff.
Cheers,
Jason
NOISE! 2008
May 8, 2008: 10 p.m. – May 11, 2008: 1 a.m. at Ontological Theater, St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th St., Manhattan, NY $10 admission; free video and audio online.
Noise! is a sound performance festival started in 2005. free103point9 curates for the second year. Each year the “Incubator” program at Ontological Theater hosts a Noise! festival, a three-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art.
The festival will feature short compositions and performances by established and emerging artists.
Each evening opens with a Radio 4×4 as the audience enters the theater.
Radio 4×4 is a free103point9 collaborative radio transmission performance. Four simultaneous audio performances are separately sent through FM transmitters to radios positioned throughout a performance space. Each radio receives only one of the signals, so that the audience becomes an active collaborator in the performance, “mixing” the audio feeds by moving about the space among the four signals. Other artists will perform each evening. Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe, and Damian Catera will curate each evening. Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.
Thursday, May 8
Curated by Tianna Kennedy
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Tianna Kennedy + Mark Anderson + Jordi Wheeler + Tyler Nolan
Lith (Jordi Wheeler)
Diamond Terrifier (featuring Sam Hillmer from the Zs)
Dome Theater (Forrest Gillespie directing “Fucked for Real”)
Friday, May 9
Curated by Tom Roe
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Giancarlo Bracchi + Tom Roe + Slink Moss + Michael Garafalo.
Bunnybrains
Michael Garafalo (Latitude/Longitude)
Giancarlo Bracchi
Tom Roe
Saturday, May 10
Curated by Damian Catera
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Damian Catera + () + Tom Roe + John Baird
Skyline
Damian Catera
Andrea Parkins
See some choice Simon Gane art on Arthur Conan Doyle story in the Graphic Classics Free Comic Book Day special, available Friday, May 3rd, 2008 at finer comic book shops everywhere. Simon previews his story here. Read a review of it on Newsarama, where they say that “Simon Gane has a wonderfully busy, angular style that’s perfect for the Victorian story. He’s also remarkably adept with faces and body language, so the characters’ shifts in mood and personality throughout the tale are utterly convincing.” There are many other fine books available that day; get all the details on the Free Comic Book Day site. You should also visit our Simon Gane shop on Wow Cool and read the Vertigo title that Simon pencils - Vinyl Underground - for more wonderful Gane magic.
The legendary and strange Radiophonic Workshop would have been 50 this month. The Beeb has a great little history article with video up. A vital piece of the DNA of Doctor Who and Pink Floyd was lost this month, now that Tristram Cary - VCS3 designer and Dalek theme music composer - has passed. More info on Create Digital Music.
Guest Stupid Page by Lady Starlight, 1999
4-11-08
The Percy Thrills Thrillington masterpiece, Thrillington, is now available in the DRM-free Plus format on iTunes for just 9.99USD. Awesome arrangements, super smooth bass by session legend Herbie ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ Flowers, Easy to listen to. Um, I guess you could always get it from Beware of the Blog or buy the CD, but, honestly I thought it had only ever been available on vinyl or torrent (sounding pretty bad) until now. Here’s some background (of varying accuracy.. I think) on the project.
The full 23 minute video of what happened when the artist Wafaa Bilal visited Troy, New York is online to view now. Music by nickname: Rebel and My Survival Kit, Gov’t Mule and Fugazi.
Hudson Mohawk Indymedia has produced a definitive account of the whirlwind of events surrounding Wafaa Bilal’s controversial art exhibit, “Virtual Jihadi.”
“Art (does not equal) Terrorism” goes beyond the sound bites to find out what happened when an Iraqi artist came to Troy, NY only to be censored–not once, but twice.
First, Wafaa Bilal was chased off campus after his artwork was mis-characterized as terrorist propaganda by undergraduate bloggers.
When the exhibition was given refuge by The Sanctuary for Independent Media, the city government responded by shutting down the space.
Finally got it together to put the Rebel sound up on Last.fm. There is the mini 5-song version of the R is For Riot EP available as free downloads. You can get the whole 10 song thing for free, of course, as one big 30MB download. The MySpaceship has 3 more tunes. The n:R cover of a Sexual Milkshake song is still available as part of a Teen Beat Records tribute called Relax Brother, Relax up on the Internet Archive. Two more cover tunes are on the old DeptEx Sounds page, for you completists. There, that’s it, that’s all of them. Now you know. Now you know… there is a hell.
I hate to beg, but, you know, vote for me. Can’t resist a contest. I put Radiohead through a dub grinder. I’m pretty happy with it… actually prefer it to the original. Hard to touch that vocal. I guess given time and inclination it could have been seriously sliced and diced.
Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg, Tennessee is dishing up some serious sideshow goodness in these mildly grotesque outdoor boards for it’s latest exhibit. Working on a campaign like this is pretty much every designers dream. “Hey, watch out, that alligator is gonna eat the kid!” Amazing article about the exhibit in the Mountain Press. which contains this interesting historical factoid:
“The idea of putting babies in incubators started out as a sideshow feature and these doctors would tour around with these premature babies,” File said. “It’s a great story. I think people will really enjoy it.”
Sadly nothing up on the Aquarium’s site yet (looks like a classic, ‘we never got the working files in Flash from the agency that did it’ scenario). I’m sure the collateral is quite awesome, although I suspect the actual exhibit is going to be a bit of a snoozer.
Guest Stupid Page by Lady Starlight, 1999
Commercial culture depends on the theft of intellectual property for its livelihood. Mass marketers steal ideas from visionaries, alter them slightly if at all, then reissue them to the public as new products. In the process what was once insurgent becomes commodity, and what was once the shock of the new becomes the shlock of the novel. Invariably, early expressions of sub- or alternative cultures are the most fertile sampling grounds, as their publications or zines are the first to be pilfered. Invariably, pioneers of radical form become wellsprings for appropriation. Rebellion of any kind breeds followers, and many followers become a demographic.
And more brilliant stuff follows. Read the whole thing on Design Observer. There’s a lively comment section, too.
You can now proudly walk into your newsagent’s and demand the new GQ without shame as there are 3 delightful full-colour pages of burlesque goodness by Paul Pope to be found within. And, unlike most of this issue’s content, they are not on the website. GQ is also worth a look if you are in the art, culture, design, what-have-you trade, because, it is, well, surprisingly well done. I was genuinely surprised at the freshness of the work. Really. Give a look. (It still smells bad, and the content is beyond questionable, but no shock there)
Thanks to anyone who has been visiting lately. What started as the Wow Cool event feed some 6-odd years ago has taken on a new life this last year. Right now I’m just way too buried in various projects–including rebuilding WowCool.com proper and getting the shop to make sense (and getting friendly with WordPress 2.5 and getting a proper theme on this thing). I’ve got a half-dozen major-report-type entries about half done… those will have to wait. I’ll be staying well away from the net in general. Time for a break. Hopefully I’ll sneak some art up here during April. Anyway, look for the whole new Wow Cool experience sometime in May, and come say hi at Heroes Con in June.
–Marc Arsenault
Among the witless speculation and fantasy being trolled out on what I imagine might still be called comics fandom concerning what the recent decision regarding ownership of Superman might mean in the long run, one shining beacon of reason drops the science on corporate comicbook publishing in spectacular fashion. Be very grateful that Tom Spurgeon is with us.
An industry where the caretakers of properties make far more money off of creations than the creators themselves due to legal circumstance and standard practices that greatly favor corporate ownership should be an intolerable one to every single person who has even a half-measure of interest in the comics they read beyond the initial thrill of looking at the ink on paper.
Superman spotted hiding out in the Research Triangle In a BT box at a Hampton Inn in Cary, NC.
OK, it’s out there to hear. As I’ve been blathering on about here, I spent February recording a new nickname: Rebel joint for the RPM Challenge. You can now hear that whole thing on the RPM Jukebox. Also up there and well worth a listen are the contributions from Rebel guest guitarist Rev. Joshua Baker recording as Not Square with Zero and Kamikaze Heart Matthew Loiacano.
In other news, nickname: Rebel and Wow Cool main guy Marc Arsenault (me) is laying down the guitar as part of Thee Froggss for a benefit for the Pilot Light in Knoxville, Tennessee. Also appearing, the mighty GUNN CLUUB and the GERRMMS - April, 1 2008 at The Pilot Light 106 E Jackson Ave, Knoxville, 37915 Cost : $5.00
If you were planning on checking out the new 23 minute documentary by Hudson Mohawk Indymedia about the recent events surrounding Wafaa Bilal’s controversial art exhibit, “Virtual Jihadi”, be advised that the venue has changed…. the screening will now be at: The Daily Grind, 46 3rd St. in Troy. The times will remain 7 and 8 pm.
“Art Not Terrorism” goes beyond the sound bites to find out what happened when an Iraqi artist came to Troy, NY only to be censored–not once, but twice. First, Wafaa Bilal was chased off campus after his artwork was mis-characterized as terrorist propaganda by undergraduate bloggers. When the exhibition was given refuge by The Sanctuary for Independent Media, the city government responded by shutting down the space.
This short documentary by the award-winning producers of “Independent Media in a Time of War” asks: what was so troubling about this artist’s message that University and City officials decided that we would all be better off not hearing it?
View the trailer.
Overview of the situation from earlier in the engineroom
Bonus goodness - the film has some music by nickname: Rebel and My Survival Kit in it!
I’ve just started uploading and making notes on pictures I’ve taken of artist studios. The first batch, taken for Kitchen Sink Press’ Michael Kaluta Sketchbook, is up on flickr now.
Guiltcology. A cute little portmanteau neologism that stabs right at the heart of the green zeitgeist. Long overdue, I think. Has that same beautiful illogical quality as Irangate and chocoholic. Coined this day by Marc Arsenault. Guiltcology can be loosely defined as an approach of argument that focusses on blaming individuals for causing grossly disastrous effects on the environment. You shower too long, you drive too much… change these selfish habits and everything will be OK, and better yet, you’ll feel better about yourself. ‘I hugged the earth today. I walked to the corner store (instead of driving the 2 blocks) to buy (mercury laden) CFLs to replace the bulb I broke last night stumbling around in the dark (because I’ve been keeping the lights down to save energy).’ A classic example is US President George W. Bush’s speech about how Americans are addicted to gasoline.
Many examples are directly tied to the crassest and most misleading forms of advertising, like a recent example in the Gardener’s Supply Company catalog (Late Spring 2008 edition, page 68… nothing against them, really, they’re a fine company, but this is just plain stupid) that begins “Americans throw away more than 300 million tires every year.” Well, surely, this is the responsibility of that industry? I don’t get my old tires back when I replace them. (I didn’t get my wisdom teeth either, even though I practically begged for them. Who knows what they did with that hot commodity?)
Typically it then leeds in to full-on guiltvertising (neologism no. 2 for today). Continuing on in the Gardener’s listing… ” The good news is that today, almost 80% of those tires are being recycled into road surfaces, building materials… and our exclusive rubber mulch! Our customers alone have purchased enough recycled rubber mulch to keep 896 tons of rubber out of the landfills.” Really, OK, don’t hurt your head too much thinking about how that works… Like how many tons are 300 million tires and what percentage this mulch that will just hang around forever represent.
Far worse are the many examples of ad copy out there for how buying a plastic water bottle or coffee mug is so awesome for the environment because it saves X amount of bottled water bottles or coffee cups. And that makes it green as all get out, no matter what it is made out of.
UPDATE: Excellent piece on AdFreak tears apart Wall Mart’s loathsome green campaign that
…instead of showing that it’s following through on serious, long-term corporate commitments to eco-friendly practices, the company is just tossing the job back in the consumer’s lap.
Troy, New York’s WRPI - 91.5 FM begins the new series Colony Collapse Radio, Wednesday, March 26 at 10AM. Tune in to hear about the bees and buzzings, collapsings and swarmings. CCD Radio is a seven show series inspired by the longstanding buzz between humans and bee creatures, brought to you by EE Miller and Ryder Cooley. Tune in Wednesdays 10am -12pm, WRPI 91.5 (New York Capital Region), streaming from WRPI.org more information & podcasts available through their blog: colonycollapsedisorder.wordpress.com. Of special note on the show are pieces by Wow Cool pals Dara Greenwald (April 2nd show), Wafaa Bilal (who you’ve read about here recently, on the April 16th show), and our own Jason Martin (Brown Cuts Neighbors, Bunny Brains, Evolution Revolution on April 30th).
Revelations abound and much sample art is to be had in this least likely of all artist interviews at Marvel.com with Gary Panter on his contribution to the 7th issue of Jonathan Letham’s Omega. We get some clues that Gary is releasing some music, and yes is still drawing for Riddim. A few other tidbits are also worth noting.
1. This awesome analysis of Jack Kirby
The kind of changes he went through graphically in his life were really interesting. His stuff starts out kind of blobby, like everything’s made out of wet mud. Then by the ’60s, it is like wax and less blobby and he starts really getting the gravity and antigravity going. And then in the ’70s he has figured out how to sculpt the space with the line and shapes and attach the planes in space like they are clipped together and the whole thing bulges and explodes. And then he kept at it like the warrior intellect he was.
2. Marvel has a healthy respect for its fans
Marvel.com: So, Gary, tell the Marvel zombies out there a bit about yourself and your career.
3. If you’d read Gary’s blog entry about visiting Marvel, then this is damn funny
Everyone was nice at Marvel and I had fun doing the comic
4. Marvel doesn’t mind it’s competition advertising on its site
Screen grab of the Marvel page with video ad for the new Justice League: The New Frontier DVD
5. I spend about a quarter of my working year writing interview or ad copy and I cannot imagine writing such awful question lines as are in this interview. How this thing was constructed is beyond me. It’s a very un-natural flow. It feels very dumbed down in a an awkward way. I’m not convinced that Sean T. Collins had much to do with this final piece, but I’m very glad to see that all Gary’s bits of stuff and links made it in there. It’s worth noting that it was updated the day after it was originally posted.
Omega the Unknown from Marvel Comics is on stands April 2, 2008
UPDATE - I can’t help but feel a little cheated for getting something free.. That interview has ALL the art by Panter in the Omega comic. I would have been nice to have experienced it all in the book. Aaarghhh. never look. never look. Keep the spoilers from my heeart!
Happy Easter and Equinox from Optiplex the Divine, protector of the universe, eater of gamma rays and organizer of the sublime dark matter.
Call for submissions: My Baby Rides the Short Bus – an upcoming anthology to be published by PM Press (Winter, 2009)
[This book is being co-edited by my eldest son’s mother. If you’ve had experiences that you would like to share that could enrich this project, then I urge you to contribute. - Marc]
We are seeking submissions from a diverse group of parents raising special needs kids who feel marginalized by their subculture status (economics, lifestyle, orientation, religion/atheism) and underrepresented in print.
Got tips on how to stay sane during the IEP process when you don’t believe in the system to begin with? Felt you had to hide you radical political books while the Early Intervention Folks come over? Found yourself stuck a mainstream world of special needs parenting that you don’t fit into?
Submit your stories to a upcoming anthology that features writing from parents in the know about what it’s like to raise “special needs” kids — with no sugar coating or the ‘you will dream new dreams’ kind of crap we’re subjected to by mainstream media. Unfortunately we can’t pay, but all contributors will receive two copies of the book.
Topics we would like to see covered include (but are not limited to):
Experiences with helpful or clueless doctors
· How not to leave your politics at the door and still work the system
· Care providers and how they help us (when they show up)
Community support or lack thereof
· The asinine things people say you
· Challenging people’s assumptions
Keeping yourself sane while caring for your kid’s needs
· The politics of inclusion
· Fighting city hall/demanding more access & services
· Kids with special needs growing older
Alternatives to group homes and institutions
· Politics behind professional care-giving
Alterative treatments: the good, the bad, or the rip-off
*Also, we’re seeking suggestions for good resources/services state-by-state or on the national level. Please send those to the email listed below.
Send 2,000 to 5,000 word submissions by May 15th 2008 or questions to: shortbusbook@yahoo.com Essays must be typed, double-spaced, and paginated. Please include your address, phone number, email address, and a short bio on the last page.
Editors: Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman and Sarah Talbot, who are parents of “special needs” kids.
The other day, there was a link in the Random News Round Up section of Tom Spurgeon’s always great The Comics Reporter to an essay in the New Yorker by art spiegelman on revered EC Comics artist Bernard Krigstein. I came to a total stop in my light reading of it at this sentence…
…Krigstein was a true intellectual. He would have had more in common with the staff of Partisan Review or Commentary than he did with his colleagues on Nyoka the Jungle Girl, Space Patrol, and Strange Tales of the Unusual.
No, not because I’m not familiar with the Partisan Review (uh, I’m not…); it was the list of then contemporary comicbooks. The last one in particular. Strange Tales of the Unusual! You’ve got to be putting me on. art snuck that in there in a mischievous fit after too many slices at Ben’s Pizza. No freaking way. That’s like having a comic called Exciting Stories of The Spectacular… except much, much more dull. It might have well have been called Interesting Anecdotes of the Peculiar.
OK. Sure enough, after a little searching I find out that “Strange Tales of the Unusual” had a dozen or so issues from one of Martin Goodman’s 50s comicbook imprints. You can see the covers on The TIMELY-ATLAS Cover Gallery : Blake Bell’s Visual Tour Of Marvel’s “Horror” Books. Here’s the first one:
At first they’re kinda funny in that lame ironic sort of way. Many of the covers repeat these type of not very interesting teases, with such snoozer titles as “Man Afraid!”, “Those Who Plan!”, and “The Long Wait!”… always with the quotes and exclamation point. I’d guess they’re tales of people driven to such heights of paranoia by the cold war that the slightest irregularity in the daily routine would drive them to the brink of madness, sort of like the situation of the housewives in countless infomercials who shake their heads in disgust that performing the most common of household tasks invariably causes embarrassing and messy accidents.
Eventually it had to dawn on me the climate of the times, and I realized just how sad this all was. The strange and unusual situation of trying to make a horror comic without any horror. The seal of the Comics Code Authority was in effect, and zombies, decapitation and injury to the eye motifs were a thing of the past. After a time the creators of these tepid thrillers realized that they could go a long way with the weird and monstrous, and some innovation was forced to occur. At EC they were lucky to have Krigstein, who produced his comics masterpiece ‘Master Race’ under the code.
Given much of our current cultural climate it seems timely that we now have a more detailed record of those times and the factors that led to comicbooks coming under the scrutiny of the US Congress, David Hajdu’s new book The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Wow Cool will be at the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-22, 2008. There will be a few new debuts, lots of stuff by Simon Gane, Steve Cerio and myself, music, comics, shirts, etc. I’m hoping to spend most of my time drawing sketches of 70s Marvel monsters for the kids (or, failing that, for Frank Santoro). Updates to come in this space. You can look for the new shop and some other fun web stuff to go up well before then (hey, the Interweb is hard). Thanks.
–Marc Arsenault
I have this deep conviction that, given the chance, most Americans would take anything that smells like art or an artist and ship it to the giant island of plastic waste in the middle of the Pacific. With that mindset it should come as little surprise the events in Troy, New York during the last week involving RPI’s visiting artist Wafaa Bilal. Except things reached a point of the truly wrong. That the storied engineering school with the slogan ‘Why Not Change the World’ should have a hardcore club of republican students with apparent connections beyond campus (or whatever the case is) should also come as little surprise. Still, the whole thing leaves a bitter taste in the mouth as a supreme ‘what the fuck’ moment. Although officially written out of US law in 1973, federally protected free speech still held a shimmering veneer, that, in practice, anyway, seemed secure. Secure until what the application of “community standards” really amounts to in a former industrial center of the American northeast became apparent. Welcome to the scene in Troy, New York. Early March, 2008.
Across the river, mansion hill burns with the emerging scandal of now former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s indiscretions. In the historic district of downtown Troy an untarnished hero of the people is roasted for doing what was clearly the right thing at the right time. Steve Pierce is a saint. A champion of the empowering possibilities of media placed in the hand of the common man. He should be held in the same regard as other such far-thinkers as Rick Prelinger and Kevin Kelly. His most recent passion, The Sanctuary for Independent Media was callously shut down by the City of Troy, New York this week in a blatant flexing of cronyism.
Here’s Steve’s official statement from last night:
Hi-
Perhaps you’ve heard the news that the City of Troy, citing code violations, has shut down The Sanctuary for Independent Media effective immediately.
This happened the day after a top Troy official, who is also a Rensselaer County legislator and a constituent liaison for Senator Joseph Bruno, organized a protest condemning Wafaa Bilal’s work and our decision to present it on Monday night.
We have been working on our building since we first occupied it and throughout have been in close communication with the city about our plans, so this sudden closure-following the censorship of Wafaa’s work by RPI last week-came as quite a shock.
You can hear the phone call from the City of Troy at www.MediaSanctuary.org, along with a clip from Wafaa Bilal’s talk, and make up your own mind about the motivation behind the City’s action.
We have contacted the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and private practice attorneys for assistance on the First Amendment aspects of this situation.
This crisis has created an urgent need to raise funds for building improvements: if you can manage it, it would be greatly appreciated if you could make a secure online financial contribution at www.MediaSanctuary.org, or send a check payable to The Sanctuary for Independent Media to PO Box 35, Troy NY 12181.
Under the circumstances, the remaining three programs in our “Art, Freedom, Democracy” series are in jeopardy as is the rest of the Sanctuary season. We will let you know shortly whether our presentation of The Yes Men next Tuesday, March 18 will proceed as planned, and if so, where.
Many thanks for your support in the past; if you can offer further help in this moment of need, please let us know by emailing info@MediaSanctuary.org.
Hope to see you soon!
–Your Friends at The Sanctuary for Independent Media
Here is Wafaa Bilal’s videotaped statement on the incident:
Interview with Wafaa Bilal on We Make Money Not Art
YouTube Channel with coverage of the event
Still on the fence? Cast your vote… would you waterboard a dog or this Iraqi?
George Tabb Benefit, Thursday March 13 at 10pm with Mike Watt + the Missingmen at Safari Sam’s, 5214 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, (323) 666-7267. Visit MySpace.com/HelpGeorgeTabb.
I have to admit to being way clueless. My apartment in Brooklyn is a scant 4 3/4 miles away from the World Trade Center, in a neighborhood heavily populated by firefighters, and apart from some vague sense that, ‘yeah, the air after 911 was probably pretty bad and I’m sure some people are a little sick’, I haven’t given it a whole lot of thought (given that I only live there part time and moved in over a year and a half after 911, I’d probably miss a little, but c’mon!). Randomly today I see a bulletin from Mike Watt in my rarely visited MySpaceship about the benefit show, and first I’m thinkin’, ‘I didn’t know George was sick’, I read a little and it’s ‘I didn’t know George lived in New York’ (somewhere in there is, ‘we both worked at MaximumRockNRoll and even though we met once or twice I dodn’t really know George’), and then I’m sucked into a new scary world.
Simple version: George lived downtown during 911 and shortly after that he got sick… and then he got very sick, and found out that not only was there not much help available for anything beyond a runny nose, but the possibility that a causal link existed was denied in the interest of homeland security. Read his whole story at MySpace.com/HelpGeorgeTabb. As always George dishes things up in a clear, direct and honest human voice. For more on the human wreckage caused by the attacks in the years since, see these pieces in CBS News, The Village Voice, and Discover Magazine.
Back in the nonreal world, you should also give a visit to George’s YouTube channel, which contains many fine installments from his punk TV joint Destroy Television.
Made the plunge. Wow… is it almost one AM? Anyway, feel free to friend us on the MySpaceship or fan us on the Facebook. See this post, if you are not sure what a nickname: Rebel is.
Be seeing you.
Fox again dips into the pool of slightly odd to fill space in their schedule, this time dragging Mr. Scott Smallwood (beard, glasses, sitting in the center) along with them. This clip is a tad old, but, hey, it was new to me. For those unfamiliar, Mr. Smallwood is pretty much the central unit in music at Wow Cool, being 1/2 of Evidence and a member of Brown Cuts Neighbors and nickname: Rebel. Check his stuff at the DeptEx shop.
Lost classic from around 1989/90? Why this gem never saw print I cannot imagine. –Marc Arsenault
Screen grab of the ad section from one of those ridiculous themed RSS aggregator ad farm sites (or Splog). The interpretations of this juxtaposition (and the potential for resulting humor) are endless. Way to go, 1st Tenn!
Mere hours after a jury in Little Rock awarded USD 27 million to a woman who got breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy (full story), an article appears on the CNN front pages ‘Latest News’ titled “5 Good Reasons for going on hormones“. The final insult, the story is in a column called “Empowered Patient”. The whole tone of the article is vomit-worthy, right down to the attitude it takes to the history of the therapy and the risks involved and the way it tries to spin it into something acceptable. Like, ‘it’s safe now, trust us’. Riiiggghhttt. The frequently cited source for studies on HRT and cancer is the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, which has just published a new study that basically states that the risk is much greater than previously believed and use for three or more years increases the risk. So, CNN and Elizabeth Cohen, I am calling you out on your bullshit article that tells us that everything magically changed in 2002 and HRT is perfectly safe now, given a loving caring doctor.
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