Yes, Captain Beefheart himself is 69 today. It’s no secret that he’s popular in the house of Wow Cool. Just released from Proper Records is the long-awaited biography by long-time Magic Band member and arranger John (Drumbo) French, Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic. It appears...
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This is the one book about sound you must read this year. I’ve been waiting for something like this for years and for this book since July. Steve Goodman, better known to the world as Kode9 of Hyperdub Records, delves into how sound has been used by government and industry to manipulate...
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Brand new on the Interwebs, in just the last few days, are the three following, vaguely Wow Cool connected sites that are worth your while to check out. Relevancy and mileage may vary based on your personal preferences and life experience. 1. Steve Bissette’s King of Monster Isle Yes, It...
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I have been an avid fan of Javier Mariscal’s art since first encountering his Garriris comics in Raw Magazine at the age of 12. When I got to visit Barcelona for the first time, apart from the buildings of Guadi and the museums of Picasso, Dalí and Miró, I was most excited to see what
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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...
Read moreI know it’s no A Christmas Story, and I’m a little late noticing that this documentary by Adam Curtis is available on Archive.org. But this has been my Christmas Eve viewing. I’ve been assaulted this year with endless idiocy that blindly repeats NeoCon lies by people who should...
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Unadvertised special feature: two-inch thick Styrofoam block (pictured below) As you may have heard, the complete catalog of the Beatles recordings have recently become available in a brilliantly remastered digital version. You can acquire these in a complete set for between $99.99 and $169.99...
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Is a porno comic. Yes, Brandon Graham’s 56 page smut comic from 2003 Perverts of the Unknown is that most rarest and sought after of things. Impossible to find in a reasonable condition for less than One Thousand US Dollars! As the sole reviewer on Amazon attests (in box, below), it is not...
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LIMITED-EDITION DVD GIFT PACK OF THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (2009)! $30 for one, $50 for two, $65 for three, $100 for five, $500 for thirty Whether you’ve already seen the film and are jonesing for a second fix, or haven’t because the multiplex nearest you wouldn’t play it, be...
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Events in Berlin today (It’s still Monday, November 9, 2009 in California, folks) proved that irony is dead, dead, dead, fucking dead. Either that or someone way the hell too clever came up with the concept of having former Polish president Lech Walesa topple over a line of Styrofoam slabs...
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Our good friend and consistent lifeline to the old Wow Cool home of Troy, New York, Mr. Andrew Lynn has just started The Bike Blog on TimesUnion.com. He’s managed to bust out three posts already in the first 24 hours, so we expect continued greatness. His statement of purpose follows. The...
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At least where I live. If you live in Cupertino too, here’s some info. There’s also some mad voting happening in Virginia, New York, New Jersey and much the rest of California. Anyone else, you’re on your own to figure it out. I do not know anything about this site I’m...
Read moreThe YES MEN and GLOBAL EXCHANGE present a Special Screening of The Yes Men Fix the World on its California debut weekend with Yes Man, Andy Bichlbaum & Global Exchange’s Chevron Program Director, Antonia Juhasz November 1, 2009 5pm The Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street, SF (purchase...
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If you are a New Yorker, then it is quite likely that you are often confused by how people who are not perceive New Yorkers. New York is a very large state (about 55,000 square miles, kinda sorta halfish the size of the UK or Italy) and many of the interesting parts are not in
Read more.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men, by Marc Arsenault on flickr. Now! Well, soon. Full list of screenings. I appreciate...
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Easily the weirdest magazine name of the decade. Hybrid Mom. I tried and tried to figure out what they’re getting at. I’m sure this would confuse Gloria Steinem and Helen Gurley Brown too. Presumably this is the work of Natasha Henstridge’s character from Species or something...
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Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a “special edition” New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, extreme flooding, and other lethal effects of global warming within the next few decades. The most...
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Not entirely sure what is going on here, but Rebecca Migdal has started what is to be a 22-page online comic adventure of Mike and Andy from the Yes Men on her Rosetta Stone site. Amusing stuff. Start reading. More on the Yes Men.
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For many small and independent authors, publishers, musicians and filmmakers, Amazon Advantage has been a terrific program to get your product out to a national audience and offer it for sale. For the last few years Advantage members have had the bonus of having their products available through...
Read moreThe real news story about Psycho Donuts in Campbell, California that most of the media have missed is that they make unique yummy pastries and are a big supporter of local arts. Watch the above video to get the idea (Soundtrack by nickname: Rebel, of course!). A s’mores donut!? One with...
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Re-useable shopping bag for sale at a Safeway supermarket in California. I’ll be honest, I don’t mind the chance to dump on organic seed supplier Seeds of Change since they have sold their address list to tons of crap-ass gardening-related companies who love to spam me. Since they...
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Just so we are very clear here. Despite my large collection of Godzillas… I think this is all very, very wrong. Make your own media. Resist the feedback loop. Destroy...
Read moreBruce Sterling’s Eulogy for Analog TV from The Long Now Foundation on Vimeo. Here’s what Bruce Sterling has to say. More info at the UC Berkeley Funeral for Analog TV page (an event I totally failed to attend yesterday). Many channels did stop their regular analog broadcast...
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