Happy Easter and Equinox from Optiplex the Divine, protector of the universe, eater of gamma rays and organizer of the sublime dark matter.
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Strange Tales of the Unusual
The other day, there was a link in the Random News Round Up section of Tom Spurgeon’s always great The Comics Reporter to an essay in the New Yorker by art spiegelman on revered EC Comics artist Bernard Krigstein. I came to a total stop in...
Read moreWow Cool @ HeroesCon – June 20-22, Charlotte
Wow Cool will be at the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-22, 2008. There will be a few new debuts, lots of stuff by Simon Gane, Steve Cerio and myself, music, comics, shirts, etc. I’m hoping to spend most of my time...
Read moreWafaa Bilal meets RPI and gets a Virtual Jihad of another color entirely
I have this deep conviction that, given the chance, most Americans would take anything that smells like art or an artist and ship it to the giant island of plastic waste in the middle of the Pacific. With that mindset it should come as little...
Read moreHelp George Tabb: Keep This 9/11 Survivor’s Voice Alive
George Tabb Benefit, Thursday March 13 at 10pm with Mike Watt + the Missingmen at Safari Sam’s, 5214 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, (323) 666-7267. Visit MySpace.com/HelpGeorgeTabb. I have to admit to being way clueless. My apartment in...
Read morenickname: Rebel gets all social networky
Made the plunge. Wow… is it almost one AM? Anyway, feel free to friend us on the MySpaceship or fan us on the Facebook. See this post, if you are not sure what a nickname: Rebel is. Be seeing you.
Read morePrinceton Laptop Orchestra on Fox News
Fox again dips into the pool of slightly odd to fill space in their schedule, this time dragging Mr. Scott Smallwood (beard, glasses, sitting in the center) along with them. This clip is a tad old, but, hey, it was new to me. For those...
Read moreThe Stupid Pages 19 – Untilted
Lost classic from around 1989/90? Why this gem never saw print I cannot imagine. –Marc Arsenault
Read moreFAIL – be careful with your ad placement
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...
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