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...
Read morethe Funny Books have been put in their place
If you occasionally check this thing out solely for the comic book related content, and could give a crap about the rest, all that noise has now been stuffed into it’s own category, named Funny Books. I would have just done this quietly...
Read moreTV Worth Watching
I’m still trying to figure out what Queens of the Stone Age have to do with Slow Food and why they were on Anthony Bourdain‘s No Reservations tonight… but I am much more excited about Tuesday night’s debut on the Sundance...
Read moreKarlheinz Stockhausen – Final Kontakte
I was very sad to hear this evening of the passing of the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. I’ve found he is someone who more people have heard of then have listened to his works. Often, at best, they know of the connection from Holger...
Read moreHappy Hollow, San Jose, CA
I dragged the fam and friends to the amazing Happy Hollow in San Jose, California today (OK… they dragged me). Despite being months behind on organizing photos, I had to pop these up right away. What a strange and wonderful place. See the...
Read moreSan Francisco Comic Book Shop Experiences Good and Bad
It was long past time I found a new place to buy books when in San Francisco… My local crappy shop in Brooklyn closed up a couple years ago and I finally sucked it up to ride the F out to visit Alex at his excellent Rocketship, and now...
Read moreflickr gets the goods – Schmap San Jose Guide
A photo of mine of the Winchester Mystery House is in something called the Schmap San Jose Guide. I’m in Santa Clara County, California now. If you’re going to be here, this may help you get around. My original photo set on flickr is...
Read moreThou Shalt Not Question Stephen Fry
We were going to eat out tonight… after a trip to the book store… So… totally creeped out by the recent article in Harpers about toxic chemicals in your blood and a report on Trans fat that I read… I ventured out with the...
Read moreWhat is an OEM? – Tom Manning’s Spamtoons
I gleefully tracked the poetry of spam this past summer (or spoetry) in a couple of posts (Thing 1 | Thing 2). Now, Yale School of Art MFA candidate Tom Manning has gone one better and turned them into cartoons. See the results on the excellent...
Read moreThe creeping death of the interweb
Google your 10 favorite obsessions. You’ll see it. Something has changed. Much is slipping away.
Read moreToday is going to be a good day
This was my neighbors lawn this morning. If anyone, I thought the guy two doors down who kept telling the trick-or-treaters to stay off his grass would be the one to get nailed. What must these guys have done that was so much worse? Maybe all it...
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