Weirdest “celebrity” sighting I’ve ever had: tonight, in the parking lot of the Coffee Bean, I was talking to my friend Jennifer when a car drove through the parking lot driven by Michael J. Anderson, whom you probably know as either the backwards-talking dwarf from Twin Peaks or Samson from HBO’s series Carnivale. I recognized […]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
One Laptop Per Child — XO Giving
One Laptop Per Child — XO Giving I’ve actually played with the XO (or at least, an earlier prototype) and I’ve got to tell you, these things are the coolest gadgets since they invented digital Cheez-Whiz. (There’s no such thing as digital Cheez-Whiz. That’s my point. Think about it.) They’ve got a lot to recommend […]
Biographer: Norman Mailer dead at age 84 – Yahoo! News
Biographer: Norman Mailer dead at age 84 – Yahoo! News We’ll be hoisting one for you tonight, you crazy old fucker.
David Bowie Mug Shot
David Bowie: Mug Shot Oddity – November 8, 2007 Dude, I don’t look that good on my best days.
Go ahead — tase me, bro
New Scientist Last Word Blog: Counter-taserism [From the comments:] An EFFECTIVE taser proof vest consists of any conductive surface where both probes attach creating a (dead short) There are special clothes that are made from fabric that has a high dialectric strenth that stops tasers in their tracks but is very expensive due to the […]
You, Alright? I Learned It By Watching You!
Tod Goldberg drops the old school: I think that kid’s probably in Rilo Kiley now, or some shit.
Off to Turkey
I don’t know if I’d mentioned this or not, but I’m off to Turkey on the 16th for a week and a half. I’m flying into Frankfurt and then heading to Istanbul for a couple of days, and then to a town called Göreme, in central Turkey, in Cappadocia. I’m going to be exploring some […]
Help Me Find This Jacket
I love jackets. Specifically, leather jackets. Unfortunately, none of the sort of jackets I’m into are standard issue Wilson’s Leather sort of things. What I want is the Ninth Doctor’s jacket. The image above is from a lovely site in the UK called thebadwolf.com where they will make you one of these jackets to spec. […]
Red State Soundsystem on Twitter!
(Note: all RSS news will move to the band site when I’ve finished the content management system.) You can now follow Red State Soundsystem in all our glory by pointing your browser at our Twitter page. Any band news, info and updates will be cc’d over there.
Scatterlings + Refugees: Digital Single
Go here. Download freely. Feel free to use the ‘Donate’ button — I’m asking for 99 cents, but it’s definitely optional. And please, please, please: if you like it, link to it. Link to it everywhere. Digg it. Reddit it. Facebook it. MySpace it. Blog it. Everywhere you can. I want people to hear this. […]