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Read morefognozzle: My old band has new website
fognozzle live again. In temporary identity of Shredni Vashtar (C’mon, give it up, Saki fans!) we shredded live with exploding light fixtures in day care centers and drum circles in crusty east Oakland warehouses. The current equipment list...
Read moreJohnny Flatline Gets it Together
Johnny Flatline returns, in a typical adventure… all fantasies, lies, imagination, backstory and wasted rationalizations. Realized here in an adult form not seen before. He returns in 2009 in Quarter a tale of Pinball, deceit and Lust. This...
Read moreI took the RPM Challenge
My band, nickname: Rebel, will have a new album for 2008. OK, it’s really going to be a solo joint, but I’m feeling the Rebel vibe. The basic pitch is, you have 29 days in February to record an album of new music… at least 10...
Read moreFound randomly on the web
A review of the Jason Martin Stupid Pages strips (seen about a year before we decided on that as a name to package them in) from Tom Spurgeon The Comics Reporter on a Comics Comics thread “There were also some passed around comics by...
Read moreRestoring Jim Flora
There a great story on the fine printing folks at Yee Haw Industries restoring and printing a long lost woodcut by the late, great Jim Flora in the latest issue of Knoxville, Tennessee’s free weekly Metro Pulse. Go Read It. More Flora...
Read moreIt’s a pizza!
Homemade dough, sauce and mozzarella. A pretty good Neapolitan. Food still is the best thing to eat when you’re hungry.
Read moreThe Damn Best of 2007 List
I wasn’t really going to do one of these, but basically had done most of the pieces elsewhere, so I’ve compiled it all here. Five Comics or Comics-Related Publications You Enjoyed Reading This Year (originally on The Comics Reporter)...
Read moreCosmos is on TV again
We are all made out of star stuff. For those of us who remember a time when Pluto was a planet, Australia was a continent and Vegetable Soup was a tv show… there is one magic, authoritative voice that has always sent a shiver of awe through...
Read moreBubble Bath packaged as motor oil and marketed to kids
I think it’s pretty clear what a bad idea this is… “We’re out of bubble bath” “Hey, I think dad has some in the garage!”
Read moreWow Cool turns 20
Wow Cool was launched 20 years ago this month by Sam Henderson, Tom Hart and Marc Arsenault in New York. Tonight, a few of those characters and more are gathering in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, New York for a memorial pub crawl. If you...
Read moreWow Cool gets all historical
It seems that Wow Cool has been around long enough now (20 years this coming January) that it has attained some sort of historical signifigance, or at least our old friend Rick Bradford of the Poopsheet Foundation thinks so. I guess I need to get...
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