February 2011
35 posts
January 2011
26 posts
“… if there’s any justification for telling personal stories, it’s that every person, every selfish little clod of ailments and grievances- including you, including me- contains withing himself the entire human condition.”
—Adair Lara, from Naked, Drunk and Writing
it's been a while since i made a gif. did i do it right?
"By then there were already plenty of acts (and probably there have always been plenty) that a term like nerdcore would readily describe." →
gothamist.com
“My favorites are They Might Be Giants, Ween, Del & Dan the Automator doing Deltron. Weezer and Nerf Herder are in the same mode. Devo even has that kind of thing, where they are goofy and too smart and anti-fashion, and are ridiculous but not making novelty music.”
story of a bike light giveaway [Let's Go Ride a Bike] →
letsgorideabike.com
almost a month old [my classic Google Reader m.o. in effect] but this is the kind of simple activism i’m going to start participating in. hell even i’ve ridden w/o my light, and been called out for it. SAFTEY FIRST
eight amazing kinds of playing card art →
metafilter.com
Cards as literature: Max Aub, Shakespeare, Pushkin, Gogol, and Boris Kobe. [Kobe, previously.]
Hand-drawn Soviet prison cards.
Vladislav Erko’s Taras Bulba cards.
Siberian Museum of playing cards.
A history of transformation cards. Some racial caricaturing.
Japanese Daikaiju playing cards, originally distributed as a Kewpie mayonnaise promotion.
Mefi’s Own John Ralston’s Loteria cards.
Playing card polyhedrals.
[posted by zamboni ]
The Paper Machete's first show of 2011 →
avclub.com
Ricochet’s. 3p. Saturday. Free. Quality. lineup: http://tiny.cc/xtllb
