December 2010
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I Gots To Get My Hands on Some Painter Boys: Some...
“When smoking clove cigarettes is outlawed, then only outlaws will smoke clove cigarettes”: The awful, true story of the S. 12th Teen Party Annex, parts 1, 2 and 3. To this day, not a single actual teenager has registered for the S.T.T.P.A. Possibly related, as well as this.
“Remember the bad old days, before the Internet, when you didn’t know anything about an artist except...
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Making the break.
The new work, Broken Manual, is itself very zine-like in its most basic format: it’s a paperback, tape-bound at the spine with the title that appears to be crudely lettered-on with a Sharpie. The text throughout — supplied by Morrison, and covering the “Steps to Disappearing” utilized by “hermits and hippies, monks and survivalists” — is printed in uniform, 12-point Times New Roman font, and it...
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I thought for winter solstice I should post, you...
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Self-hating cultural identity theft.
A recent news item brought to my attention by local soccer-affiliated Tumblr personality Holly Go Nightly:
Like it or not the Kansas City Wizards is no longer the name of the Major League Soccer team that resides in Kansas City, Kansas. The organization announced yesterday that it has a new logo and a new name, Sporting Kansas City.
Huh? Huh? Did I call this, or what? That’s even better...
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Overnight listings. →
I had the idea the other week to start keeping a dream journal in the form of TV Guide listings. So, that’s what I did.
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It's complicated.
A friend sent a link this morning to that hilarious New York Times article about Steve Martin’s appearance at the 92nd Street Y, and how it “resulted in the Y’s sending out a next-day apology, along with a promise of a refund” to the unlucky attendees, who were forced to sit through a harrowing evening of conversation about art.
On one hand, I’m sympathetic to Martin and a...
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