Was working on the weekend and I found this strange bird that was just standing in front of this big vinyl banner that was left out in the hope that it would flatten. She stood there for a very long time… moving very little. Later on I went back outside to find her standing under
Read moreCornetto/Nutty Buddy review attempt
Somehow I got obsessed with picking up variations on my childhood favorite (called something different, depending on where you are – Nutty Buddy, Cornetto Classico, Crispina, Sundae Cone… basically Vanilla ice cream in a cornet (aka the sugar cone) covered with chocolate and nuts)...
Read moreFCC Listening Station
I was in Livermore, California a few years ago… and in the middle of a big empty field was a little shack surrounded by a metal fence, with a million antennas around it and a pickup truck parked on the side. There was a sign out front that said “FCC Listening Station”. I just...
Read moreRob and Lou and your whole damn crew
Back in October 1994 I went down to Austin, Texas to do a strange training gig in HTML at a long gone early eCom startup. While there I got to see my old Northampton, Mass neighbors Sebadoh. That night, after their show the lot of us (me, Lou, Bob, Jason, Flood, Jason Austin) went over
Read moreIf you were really punk you’d have thrown a full bottle
Enjoy this sad tableau from the local Borders.Rest in Peace Punk Planet
Read moreneoloGISM
You figure it out… Although I really would not want to live with this as a driving goal in life; a goal it is… I’d like to enter more words into the english language than Shakespeare. For now, I’m pretty excited to be acknowledged as a contributor to the mighty OED.
Read moreVOFE
Let it be noted, that on this day, Marc Arsenault did coin the 4LA “VOFE”… sweeter and shorter than VOMFEB… for “Vomit Out My Fucking Eye Balls”. As in, “that meeting made me want to VOFE, those people don’t know the first thing about marketing, they just learned some fucking buzzwords and now...
Read moreWonderful Rainbow
Flying in to San Francisco for the hollidays… the most amazing sight… looking over the wing… a vivid rainbow… behind it, a nuclear power plant.
Read moreSolsticitations
Let it be here recorded that Marc Arsenault did on this day invent the portmanteau word ‘Solsticitations’ as a catchier alternative to religion-dodging salutation “Happy Holidays”. Solstice + Felicitations = Solsticitations.
Read moreJaffa Cakes
OMFG. I just had the 2 best, most amazing, mind-blowingly good Jaffa Cakes. Thank you Burton’s. Good night and may your god go with you.
Read moreStruggle in the Snuggle Factory
I couldn’t sleep last night… I kept having nightmares inspired by all the recent political tourmoil in Thailand and Mexico… I was convinced that it would somehow affect the supply of ingredients for more than half the food I eat…
Read moreWe had this dream… once
of becoming larger, more influential, yet being even less visible… and now? Well, I miss those cool show flyers.
Read moreThe Best Leather You will ever know
This has been a day. Quite a day. I’m freaking sunburned from being out at the Great Black Swamp Olde-Time Strongman Picnic all day in Bowling Green, Ohio. I’m in Cleveland now. The Indians just tanked and the streets are a sea of diverted traffic… mostly from the fleeing fans but also from the...
Read moreMan Pulls Truck, City on Fire
Yesterday was quite an amazing day! Saw a car on fire on the thruway, watched Qigong Master Tu Jin Sheng pull a 15 foot moving van and I got a personal tour of his new traditional Shaolin-style training facility. The picture does not quite do it justice. A whole room of hand crafted traditional...
Read moreOK This is pretty weird
Maybe it’s the hour… (really, it is not that late … 10:39 pm) but this really got to me. The movie 12 Monkeys. Terry Gilliam… Bruce Willis. There is a scene towards the end of the film where the stars are in a movie theatre watching Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. OK, yeah possible, whatever. I’m...
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