So, I will not be using my computer and will be surviving on the iPhone alone. This will give me time to read more and generally make more use of my brain.
On the book front, I think I am giving up on The Raw Shark Texts. Shot 200 pages in and I am lost. [...]
Archive > August 2008
F**k it, we’ll do it live.
Do you live in the “seedy” part of town?
Now you can find out by checking Criminal Searches. You can look up by person, neighborhood or find sex offenders. All joking aside, probably a valuable tool for people anting to know what that neighborhood they’ve been eying is really like.
The Bronx Zoo…
at La Cita Bar
Apparently someone had the (either brilliant or crazy) idea to take live model drawing and add a twist by putting gorilla masks on the models heads. I have to admit that I like this for the very fact that it takes an old idea and turns it up on it’s (now gorilla [...]
Todd Breland
A few months ago a guy I work with was telling me how the very Pepsi can I was drinking from was designed by his brother Todd. Thinking the design was pretty nice, I checked out his site which has a very “flowy” vector feel to most of his pieces and discovered some pretty cool [...]
The Stand-Ins
The new Okkervil River album entitled “The Stand-Ins” has been on my iPhone for a few days and I must admit, I love it.
It has a noticeably different feel from “Black Sheep Boy” and “The Stage Names”. But it still sounds like Okkervil. I definitely recommend it and everyone I know who has listened [...]
The Protest Issue
This month’s issue of Under The Radar is entitled “The Protest Issue”. Now let me start off by saying that I am not one to be swayed either way by what Collin Meloy or Fleet Foxes say should be important to me, but that’s the beauty of it. For the most part this issue is [...]
The Birth of Cool
mental_floss has a cool short piece on Miles Davis. Anyone who has known me for a while knows that I love jazz as much as any other music music with Miles being one of my favorites. Is you are unfamiliar with his music, “Kind of Blue” is the only starting point. But regardless, familiarize yourself, [...]
Lian Li Xbox Case
Lian Li is now shipping the long awaited replacement Xbox 360 case. I have to admit, I like the idea that this can reduce the chance of a Red Ring Of Death (RROD) by allowing for much more efficient cooling. I also like having a sexy Mac Pro-ish looking case for my 360. Plus I [...]
Swedish Furniture Name
This may have been around for awhile but I ,being a fan of Ikea, enjoyed it.
Your Swedish Furniture Name
We’re Getting Oh So Close!
Making the rounds in the news lately is the fact that two major diseases are getting closer to their demise. Cancer and AIDS. In the cancer story, four of 38 patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have seen the disease disappear following treatment, while five others saw reductions of 50 per cent in their tumours. Think about [...]
