So, yeah, the usual dose of spam today… but there was something different, something a little… I dunno… special. The occasional poetry of spam subject lines was exceptionally strong. I want a new word to describe it…...
Read moreFive Years on… James Kopta, Hero
I have a favorite story about Jim that I’ve never told…We both used to be pretty regular denizens of the Schenectady Public Library, and I remember once he asked me, “hey, have you ever looked up ‘reality’ in the...
Read morePunk Rock and Remember
Or, If you were really punk you’d have thrown a full bottle, part 2… I guess. We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen. was on TV today, the Sundance Channel. It was pretty riveting stuff for me… but really a pretty weird documentary. I didn’t...
Read moreGreat Black Swamp Olde Time Strongman Picnic – DVD is out Now!
Not the oddest credit on my CV, but close. This is the glossy video document of that strange and singular event I co-promote in the wilds of Ohio every year. It’s a lot more than just a buncha guys bending and lifting stuff. Here’s the official...
Read moreRe-Reading Frenzy
Reposted from the Reading Frenzy Ledger. Help Chloe out! Please donate your used books, comics and zines for an upcoming fundraiser for Ye Olde Reading Frenzy! We’ll be having a used zine smorgasbord during the Portland Zine Symposium...
Read moreThe Worlds Most Boring Man
I found out tonight that John Peel had a rubber stamp that he’d sign off on letters with [in red] that read “John Peel, The Worlds Most Boring Man”. That’s “John Peel” on one line… the rest, centered on...
Read moreAnother bird story
Apparently some wood bees had bored there way in to a plank of wood near a knot in the rail on my back deck. Finding this too delicious a bit of wordplay to ignore, a woodpecker decided to blast his way into the board to dig them out. I found the...
Read moreZombie Bird
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...
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...
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...
Read moreEveryday at 6pm
Rob 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...
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