Space is full of assholes

Tumblr Hate the Future is awesome dystopic revenge for all the milquetoast iFuture bullshit.

O'er the world a star is sweetly gleaming

The story of a Jew, a Freethinker, France's campaign of banquets, transcendentalism and abolition all came together to create the hymn "Silent Night," coincidentally the first song ever played on radio.

I love discovering that things taken for granted in the tapestry of modern ritual have lefty origins.

I want to live like (not) Common People

I have mixed feelings about (Not) Common People, where I swiped the image above from.

On the one hand, I really like the dreamy, grainy saturated vibe of the photographers they feature. On the other hand, it all gets to feel really samey after just a few pages of scrolling through. It feels like any one photographer would have a broader range than what the blog hits, and as such, it probably does a little bit of a disservice to the photographers. It's also a bit indie-porny (NSFW sometimes).

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I don't make any money off of this blog — I only put adwords on it because for a long time, having small, never noticed GoogleAds was the only way to get Analytics, and I masturbate to graphs of the twelve pageviews I get each day. So aside from bringing in some new, confused readers to spam my comments with Chinese characters that lead to incomprehensible virus-laden linkfarms, there's no real benefit.

But $100!

Obviously, I should buy "mesothelioma," since that's the SEO hotness, right? What else? "Brobdinagian"? "Fart-huffer"? "Steichmann," on the off chance anyone ever searches for it? "Costume jewery"? Can I be the number one search result for "lickspittle"? "Analog hug machine"? "Bullshit"?

Should Superman request a change of venue?

The Law and the Multiverse is a comics blog that addresses the burning legal questions of our age: Is Batman a state actor? Could mutants really be forced to register? Are Earth-616 decisions binding in the Negaverse?

No word yet on the complications of Luthor's unitary executive theory.

Neat Sharity blog

Is not theft is copyright infringe!

Pretty neat little sharity blog that had a Little Ann album I was curious about. Now, if it's good, I'll order it from Dusty Groove, but they're too expensive to buy at on a lark.

Where my Steichmen at?

My Father's Mustache is a tumblr blog of vintage mustache shots, which got me thinking about all the old pictures of Matt, Jay and Ken (to my knowledge, Grandpa Erv never had a mustache). Mine's always part of my beard, except during those brief, confused moments between the accidental overtrim and the totally bald face (how do ladies do it? It's so cold!).

I mean, seriously, this guy (and the house he's in) could be in some old album lying around in North Riverside.

How many states?

Lost State catches conservatives clueless on number of states.

I guess maybe they count Puerto Rico already?

We don't have to be like they are

Japandroid's Heavenward Grand Prix. That "We don't have to be like they are" is ripped from something else just outside of my memory box.

Former Fat Kid Blues

Downloading Music Saved His Life.

Goddamn CSS

I can't seem to make the main posting part of the blog wider without it getting rid of the sidebar. I want to make the main part wider so that the photos (uploaded at even medium size using blogger's own defaults) don't get cut off.

Grr. I know enough to know how to monkey around but not enough to fix even a simple problem.

Weird Detroit music

My pal Geoff runs the Cousin's Vinyl record store and blog, and a couple days ago, he sent me a link to Our Lord's Space Ship, a bit of crazy Christiania masquerading as a country tune. While it's OK, it's a bit novelty for my tastes (I have a similar complaint about The Story of Suzie, a country ditty about a girl who ruins her life with marijuana cigarettes (who hasn't?).

But it did get me over there to listen to O Yes My Lord by the Voices of Conquest. Those drums are fucking killer, and that's exactly the sort of Gospel that I'd love to own if I had $150 bucks (damn!). I know that the Cousin's Vinyl guys are ripping the records so they can put them up on the blog (and, I hope, give buyers a copy on mp3, so they don't wear out their vinyl), so I hope I can get a copy of that track from them.

Have we reached Peak Melody?

Have we reached peak melody?

NSF (your) W

I started with ffffound and stumbled through a bunch of nude photo (often tumblr) blogs.

So, now I've got these open tabs…
Modfetish, Tumview Keng, The Trembler, Indie Porn tumblr.

Xerox this!

If blogs is the new zines, this blog is old zines.

Punks Is Hippies is the swap I always wanted.

Revamp

I ran into a couple of people who complained that I hadn't updated this in, well, forever, frankly.

So, now I'm dicking around with the formatting, and that means that the old Haloscan comments are gone. They were a pain in the ass that was only instituted to provide some deterant to the massive amount of blogspam... Ugh.

Hopefully, I can get this up and going a little more smoothly. If anyone who IS a programmer (or can make CSS not stand for Consistently Shitty Screwups) wants to plane off the ugly edges, lemme know.

Now I just need to cajole the Cousins Vinyl guys to let me use their file hosting, so I can put music up quickly.

Anyway, I won't get too attached. Longterm plans include a dedicated domain, ideally administered by someone else, where I can stick up archives of writing and portfolio stuff. But who knows? Maybe by then I won't want to taint my professional prospects with this blog.