2008

May

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“Out of Control” (1984) This early Nickelodeon comedy show starring the winsome Sir Dave...
May 13th
“iPhone 3G features wishlist: IM, videocam, wifi sync, better...”
— Mat Honan
May 13th
Visioneers (2008) Yes, Zach Galifianakis....
May 12th
Noony and Nunni This recurring sketch was one of my...
May 11th
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“Deliverance” Duelin’ Banjas I’m about to go and take my first banja lesson....
May 10th
Ray Walston as ‘Poopdeck Pappy’ Did you...
May 9th
Supergirl thinks Popeye’s Chicken is fuckin’...
May 9th
“I have had a goatee beard since I was in my early twenties,...”
— Louis C.K. on shaving for his...
May 8th
JOBBOTRON IS OPERATIONAL Career-Confused? WE CAN HELP YLNT...
May 7th
BEACON OF HOPE
May 7th
Vintage stereoscopic photography When you align your eyes...
May 6th
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‘Sex Panther’ to be Defictionalized by the guy who brought you Brawndo! From the New...
May 6th
Tim, Eric and Zach for Absolut (the unreleased 2nd...
May 6th
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Jim Henson - Kermit Learns Visual Thinking from Harry the Hipster The remake from 1966 is cool,...
May 4th
ksen: I know I’m a little late, but the Sandwich Day...
May 4th
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This American Life Live Tonight I’m going.  I’m going with these people.  We’re...
May 1st
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Tuvan Throat Singing The real deal, gang.  None of that fake crap I was doing on YLNT Ep. 4, which...
May 1st

Apr

"David Taylor" (the missing iPhone...

September of last year, I called out the fact that the one acceptable non-musical ringtone I’d...
Apr 30th
Yahama concept: key for you The concept is a...
Apr 30th
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Dusty Springfield “Love Power” Because in some cultures, two Nicole Kidman-related posts...
Apr 29th

"Wristcutters: A Love Story" (2006)

If you go in expecting typical indie whatever, you might be pleasantly surprised by this atypically...
Apr 28th
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BMX Bandits (1983) Neven reminded me the other day about this Australian movie inexplicably in...
Apr 28th

Reducing Music to Math

Somewhat related to Three being a Magic Number, Science Daily reports on the research of a team of...
Apr 25th
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Radio Lab: Three is a Magic Number When Radio Lab goes musical, the world shifts a little bit into...
Apr 25th

Fireland's Rejected Twitter Post No....

fireland: Either someone spilled a Shamrock Shake in my jacuzzi or I just fucked a leprechaun. ...
Apr 25th
Doggies lickin’ babies, yo. My sister’s dog...
Apr 25th

Kubrick : centrifuge :: Jobs : iPhone?

Gruber links today to an audio interview with renowned skeptic James Randi in which Randi compares...
Apr 24th
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Ugh. Way to pioneer the fart joke, “Blazing Saddles” (1974). On this news of Mel...
Apr 24th
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Murray Head “One Night in Bangkok” (1985) I will never, nor do I want to understand why...
Apr 24th
Boy on Swing via vintagephoto 
Apr 24th
Mad Men Season One DVD packaging. Oh yes. (Reblogged from...
Apr 24th

Tumblr is going pro.

Read this tumblr news.  It’s good tumblr news.  Intelligent group tumbling with moderated...
Apr 23rd
OGC Rubs Out a New Logo UK’s Office of Government...
Apr 22nd

Sillage aka The Ephemeral

Sillage (n.) - a term used by perfume aficionados to mean the trail of scent you leave wafting...
Apr 22nd
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Charlie Rose on Charlie Rose Charlie Rose: Microsoft, Yahoo!Charlie Rose: Microsoft, Yahoo!Charlie...
Apr 21st
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Ho Daddy! (Maynard G. Krebs chin person) Surf rock.  Bongos.  Chin people.  Krebs fully-bearded....
Apr 21st
Like, Maynard G. Krebs, man. On the beatnik character Bob...
Apr 21st

Redid

I’ve been working with Master Themesman Cameron Hunt on redesigning my tumblelog, and earlier...
Apr 20th
Hairstyles for the New Male: The Poster Because pointing and...
Apr 18th
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Chopin Meets Radiohead - Jack Conte via antville
Apr 18th
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D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) trailer “It’s only human to make mistakes.  But D.A.R.Y.L. never...
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
Early-onset jewfro (my nephew Wes) I don’t care how...
Apr 17th
Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Glass. *Pass the Snare!* *Pass...
Apr 17th
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Keith Jarrett Trio “Autumn Leaves” Tokyo, 1996 With Jack DeJohnette (d) and Gary Peacock...
Apr 16th
Citizens † Of † Praise...
Apr 14th
Square root by magnetbox
Apr 12th
“This coffee is making me super agitated. I asked for a...”
— Briana Mowrey
Apr 12th
Hot Lunch (1978) 41 x 27 in. (104 x 69 cm.) One in a...
Apr 10th
PA4: Citizens on Patrol Arguably the best in the...
Apr 9th
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Zildjian promotional video, 1990 This will be fascinating to no one except you and me.  To us,...
Apr 9th
You Look Nice Today: A Journal of Emotional...
Apr 7th
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The Runaways “Cherry Bomb” Japan, 1977 Who’s that on lead guitar?  Oh,...
Apr 7th
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Anthony Rivens - “Every Thing is Gonna Be Alright” Anthony was playing in the Powell St. BART...
Apr 5th
“Mister Lonely” (2007) - dir. Harmony...
Apr 5th

Krasinski Cutting his Teeth and...

The New York Times has a brief and cursory interview with 28-year-old John Krasinski (you know him...
Apr 4th
One Final, Desperate Wedgie I can’t miss an...
Apr 4th
Your Glottis and You (NSFW) via wikiped/Glottis 
Apr 4th
Someone Actually Remembranced Some Gratuitous Dumbass named...
Apr 3rd
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Big hitter, the Lama. Gunga galunga.  Gunga… gunga lagunga. via Carl Spackler
Apr 3rd
Zapped! and the Aames/Baio Gaze From the trivia: Even more...
Apr 3rd
Cody Hoyt via goldenfiddle 
Apr 3rd
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Dave Brubeck Quartet - “Take Five” (1961) This version of the famous anthem of West...
Apr 3rd

April Fool's Day Pranks Gone Wrong...

From corporate-casual: Pete K. baked a cake for his friend using salt instead of sugar. His friend...
Apr 1st

Mar

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Popcorn The composer of the classic electronic track made famous by the band Hot Butter in 1972 does...
Mar 29th
“Can’t wait. I feel like I am learning a new...”
— my grandma, who sent me her...
Mar 28th
Jon’s Walker Jon Deal made a Walker.  I don’t...
Mar 28th
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Drum Tips with Victor Benedetto #1 If you’re Fred Armisen and you’d prefer I take this...
Mar 27th
Complicated Drumming Technique - page 7 Eight pages of...
Mar 27th
Mask, the Musical at the Pasadena...
Mar 25th
Albatross Swimming Club, 1931 I’ve gotta get back to...
Mar 24th
The State Reunited at UCB LA and I missed it.   Goddammit....
Mar 22nd
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Only a Ninja Can Make a Ninja Movie  Ninjas are played out, but ninja movies will never lose their...
Mar 21st
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Johnny Mathis “Chances Are” Because I’m making a mixtape for the funeral tomorrow...
Mar 18th
1924-2008 Best pal.
Mar 16th
Jason Kottke Before I knew what a blog was, when reading...
Mar 14th
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Andrew W.K. makes a song about The McLaughlin Group And why wouldn’t he?  He’s a goddamn...
Mar 12th
LevelStar Icon Mobile Manager for the Visually Impaired The...
Mar 12th
Jean Cocteau Cocteau’s experiments with the human...
Mar 12th
Moustache Party Each style of moustache had a name....
Mar 12th
VIDEO Re-enacting Full House: Episode 28 Joey Gets...
Mar 6th
Trinitron The day that I hauled the carcass of my 13”...
Mar 5th
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Richard Feynman on Spirit-cleansing Percussion “I gotta have a little bit o’ that...
Mar 4th
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Baseball Boogie Bunch, 1986 LA Dodgers Okay, the Internet gets it - the 80s are funny.  But this...
Mar 4th
buzzandersen: Wow, I do believe that was the fastest series...
Mar 3rd
via yourmonkeycalled
Mar 3rd
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AssEffects® (raberprazole sodium) How embarrassing for Belgian pharmaceutical company Janssen...
Mar 3rd
“When you’re young, you look at television and think,...”
— Steve Jobs in WIRED...
Mar 2nd
And now… The Architect Post Did you know that for the...
Mar 2nd

[THE CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION]

Newsweek:  How much have brands like Target or Apple or Volkswagen—these high-design, but...
Mar 1st

Feb

Happy Birthday, Richard “Night Stalker“ Ramirez...
Feb 29th
Feb 29th
Found: the instruction booklet for my Macintosh Performa...
Feb 29th
Obama on a sleeveless T custom designed by Larry the Cable...
Feb 28th
Hillary on a T custom airbrushed by Marc...
Feb 28th
The Echo Park Time Travel Mart This place has been open a...
Feb 26th

Hygiene, Colorado

This town’s name stems from a time when it had a sanitarium to work with tuberculosis...
Feb 26th
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Thirsty Monkey There are only two really good videos on the Internet.  Both have monkeys.  This is...
Feb 26th
The Fall (2006) - released next month Watch the trailer...
Feb 25th
Robert Doisneau Le Costume...
Feb 25th

"Be Kind Rewind" (2008)

Let’s Put on a Show at its finest.
Feb 23rd
Kubrick Toys Nine is the number of tools (a toy industry...
Feb 22nd
There Will Be Blood and 2001: A Space Odyssey Still and...
Feb 22nd
hystericalparoxysm: “Created to celebrate the modern woman,...
Feb 22nd
“We must all rainbow our puppy princess with butterfly hugs;...”
— Merlin Mann Fine, asshole....
Feb 22nd
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Slow Motion Karate Chop via Cynical-C 
Feb 22nd
The Looking Glass is an imaginary invention...
Feb 22nd
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The Downfall of HD-DVD The theater of format war.  (2004, in German, with English...
Feb 21st
“You can imagine the panic at Warner Bros when they realized...”
— CHUD on rumors of Warner...
Feb 21st
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The Amanda Show and the sweded video store Michel Gondry on cynicism: I don’t think I have any...
Feb 21st
The Sartorialist:  Archetypal Hot Nerdy Girl ca....
Feb 21st
Leni Riefenstahl (alt. “Triumph of the...
Feb 21st
“The implication is there is a social justice politic, and...”
— Tay Zonday, saying things you...
Feb 21st
Juicy Beans Today, everyone picked a favorite.  Here is...
Feb 21st

SNL and the search for Obama

[Lorne] Michaels auditioned Obama candidates last week, both newcomers and those on the show’s...
Feb 20th
Floaters Another entoptic...
Feb 20th
And the confidence of a nation is hence restored.
Feb 20th
The Sack’s Inner Light These geometric and scrolling...
Feb 19th
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1ON1 Freestyle Battle Finale 2007 - Deutschland Maybe you’re growing tired of all these German...
Feb 19th

Examining the Obvious in Great Detail

Based on some common rules-of-thumb, I’d written several books worth of email messages over the...
Feb 19th

Americans: "Do not play God with my...

I made a joke a few days ago in mock mockery of Ray Kurzweil’s declarations on the future...
Feb 18th
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Variety SHAC - Hot Apple Cider! Maybe you like Stella because of the way David Wain, Michael...
Feb 18th
George Harrison and Pattie Boyd, England, 1968 (Alt. title:...
Feb 16th
Doing a nice thing FTW This just happened across the...
Feb 16th

Index finger in twirling motion near...