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!
Read moreShame on you CNN – Ugly timing of ‘News You Can Use’ feature on HRT
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...
Read morefognozzle at noise fest in San Francisco
fognozzle is one of 35-odd noise acts doing 15 minute sets each at the International Noise Conference in San Francisco, California on April 11, 2008. I haven’t been in the band in nearly 15 years, and won’t be at this show, but it...
Read moreIan Lynam’s Parallel Strokes – The Graffiti book you always dreamed of
Long time Wow Cool Compañero Ian Lynam’s awesome new book, Parallel Strokes, just came out and is available now via the book website: http://parallelstrokes.com/ Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews with twenty-plus contemporary...
Read moreDon Ed Hardy tattoos at Toys ‘R’ Us
Ed Hardy tattoo decals in a vending machine at a Toys ‘R’ Us. 50 cents each. I bought two. What is the world coming to? OK, maybe it never passed out. If you remember the days when tattooing was still a relatively underground thing...
Read moreA Coney Island of the Mind
Karen Ulrich, originally uploaded by Marc Arsenault – Wow Cool. It’s starting to look like the more exciting Coney Island exhibit that the Brooklyn Museum is hosting right now is the one in the blog by curator Patrick Amsellem. And...
Read morenickname: Rebel – R is for Riot album is done – RPM Challenge Success
OK. I just spent the month of February taking the RPM Challenge-record an album of at least 10 songs or 35 minutes in 29 days. Easy, right? Except I’m down in Knoxville and the band (Brown Cuts Neighbors, nickname: Rebel, anyone!) is now...
Read moreNeil Gaiman is watching you
OK, after that pun, I’ve forfeited my right to some sort of future privilege in this world and all possible others. This magazine has been on the rack on the local Kroger’s for the past 2 months, and I do a double take every time I...
Read moreMeddling Kids schill for the competition
Direct TV has a spot airing now with Scooby, Shaggy, and the gang pitching their service. Funny thing, they are owned by their rival–cable TV provider–Warner Brothers. What does it all mean?
Read moreWorking on the new record
I’ll post every few entries on my RPM Blog here as they build up during this long desperate month of recording… Just 17 days left. Obscure Functions of the RPM Challenge I pretty quickly realized that this would be where I finally cut...
Read moreMartial Arts Photo Explosion
This has been a pretty big month for me for newsstand exposure. I’ve got photos of Cary, NC’s White Tiger Martial Arts in the latest TKD-TaeKwonDo Times and many of the shots of the Tiger Claw Elite Champions’ performance at...
Read moreI’m Burnin’ Up
Just a half-hour to go and then album frenzy kicks in. Stay tuned for updates.
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