An interesting (and stomach-turning) article on Minnesota garbage houses posits that people who end up creating a garbage house are a symptom of people not coping well with information overload and the rush of modernity. Personally, I suspect that garbage housers, like cat collectors and pack rats (the article makes a distinction, I don’t know […]
Tony Blair describes the stabbing of a police officer as “wicked in the extreme.” I’m betting he doesn’t mean that in the sense of “excellent.”
“Flying Saucers for Everybody!” The past promise of the future, courtesy of Mechanix Illustrated and Popular Mechanics.
Either 90 percent of the public are fuckin’ retards, or I’m in a bad mood today. In retarded news from Tennessee, people are stupid or possibly just cruel. But note entertaining use of “Y’all” in a serious news story.
This guy seems to have the kind of job I would have if I had gone a different direction in life. He also likes foreign groceries, though he may like the packaging exclusively, while I enjoy the contents, too.
From today’s book of the day, Frightening the Horses: Gay Icons of the Cinema by Eric Braun: “Oscar Wilde’s association with mainstream cinema dates back to 1923, when the most flamboyant of all Hollywood’s silent female stars, Alla Nazimova, directed, under the name of her husband, Charles Bryant, an all gay/lesbian verson of Salome. It […]
Check it out: Rhino Handmade sells boutique CDs- short runs of that stuff you’ve been looking for forever, including Dan Hicks’ It Happened One Bite!
Scroll about 2/3rds of the way down this story on American values, and click to enlarge the map of colored blobs- it’s a map of where different countries fall on axes of traditional versus secular-rational values and survival versus self-expression values. It’s a fascinating way to group ways of thinking, based on a particular way […]
Through the immensely interesting and perceptive blog by Bruce Sterling, a link to the changing face of the War of the Worlds.
Here’s what a Poultry Offal Icer does. About what you’d expect. Another source of excellent words: Offal Separator.