The New Wow Cool Shop Is Officially Open

Wow Cool

Wow Cool has relaunched it’s comics, zines and music mail order shop. All the fun is at: http://wowcool.com/. There are still at least a hundred books in stock that have not yet been posted to the store, but will be very soon. That includes all the in-print issues of Zap, Weirdo and Hi-Fructose; a couple dozen [...] [...]

Punk’s Not Dead

Shaun White T-Shirt

It’s just become a blanket in the baby section at Target. Or, for the truly hardcore, TGI Friday’s has the Pink Punk Cosmo on it’s cocktail menu. Slightly more mystifying is this t-shirt that is part of Shaun White’s (Olympic gold medalist snowboarder, sponsored by Target since 2002) fashion line. It sparked a small argument when [...] [...]

No Pigeonholes Wow Cool Special

Don Campau and John Hayden at KKUP 91.5 FM

I was invited to be a special guest on Don Campau‘s excellent No Pigeonholes show at KKUP 91.5 FM’s new studios in San Jose on Sunday, December 13th, 2009. We breezed through 20 years of the Wow Cool label in two hours; and, featured at least a dozen tracks: from the first Wow Cool cassette [...] [...]

The Sound of the Suburbs: nickname: Rebel FC pre-season practice

Some scenes from the living room, as nickname: Rebel gears up for the Fall season. Mike Keegan also has some studio shots on his facebook. You probably have to be logged in to view them. League domination is now a certainty. [...]

Wow Cool gets iPhone/iPod Touch Makeover

A huge thanks to Wire to The Ear for pointing us in the direction of the brilliant WPtouch plugin from the fine folks at Brave New Code, Inc. If you read this on an iPhone or iPod Touch, you will now have a much friendlier and easier experience. WordPresss bloggers! Go check WPtouch out! New [...] [...]

I’ve got a bike!

bike

And it’s nothing like the one in the song by The Pink Floyd. Godspeed, brother Wright. As mentioned here recently, I have deep-sixed internal combustion and gone back to self-powered 2-wheel goodness. Here’s the hot ride in late night glory, purchased at an awesome bike swap held by the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition. Behind it is a [...] [...]

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