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2010-04-13T15:41:00.000-07:00

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2009-02-23T04:10:00.000-08:00

Sean Delonas is an idiot savant... or at least an idiot.Last week's comic was a little subtle by his standards, so I punched it up for him:See how much clearer that is? I'm surprised his editor didn't catch that.

2008-06-18T01:10:00.000-07:00

"The sidewalk melted, the street melted, just everything"You can watch the classic Blue Boy episode of Dragnet titled "The LSD Story" on Hulu.It's just wonderful. There outta be a law, as they say.

2008-06-13T03:25:00.000-07:00

This is my new favorite video of all time:"Dana is off tonight..."

2008-04-05T15:23:00.000-07:00

Danço do Quadrado is Portuguese for Acid Trip

2008-04-05T15:20:00.000-07:00

Korean Drummer is a superstar

2008-04-05T15:16:00.000-07:00

On this day in 1994, Kurt Cobain put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.Here's 15 year old Frances Bean Cobain casting off the outmoded values of her parents by appearing in a fashion spread for Harpers Bazaar.

2008-02-16T17:40:00.000-08:00

By the way - How much is the fish!?Also, this really sounds like he's saying "transforming the jews! We Need your support!"

2008-02-12T12:27:00.000-08:00

One year ago, I took issue with Micheal Pollan's assertation that there is something wrong, harmful, or unfortunate about the "limited" number of species we eat. Pollan argued that since 2/3rds of our calories come from 4 species (soy, corn, wheat, and rice) and humans have 80,000 species to choose from (who knows where Pollan got this number), we aren't eating enough species. I rebutted, based

2008-01-25T23:01:00.000-08:00

Ironic Plane Crash Kills 20

2008-01-21T00:43:00.000-08:00

In 2003, by a vote of 314 to 152, the residents of Bolinas, California, passed Resolution G which read "Vote for Bolinas to be a socially acknowledged nature-loving town because to like to drink the water out of the lakes to like to eat the blueberries to like the bears is not hatred to hotels and motor boats. Dakar. Temporary and way to save life, skunks and foxes (airplanes to go over the ocean

2008-01-21T00:23:00.000-08:00

Wouldn't we all?At the end of the event, a man yelled out to Obama that he will be a better president than George Bush. Obama responded, “So would you!”

2008-01-02T13:10:00.000-08:00

Toklas BrowniesA helpful footnote in the badly named but well written United States of Arugula points out that the original edition of the best selling Alice B. Toklas cookbook was padded out with recipes contributed by her counter-culture friends including one for "Haschich Fudge" contributed by surrealist painter and William S. Burroughs collaborator Brion Gysin. Toklas, unfamilar with the drug

2008-01-01T14:35:00.000-08:00

Pardon my French"(Julia Child) lights up the scene briefly, as (she) did the day before yesterday when with her bare fingers, she snatched a set of cannellini beans out of the pot of boiling water with the cry, ‘Wow! These damn things are as hot as a stiff cock.’”-from letter written by Child's husband, as quoted by David Kamp in his excellent but stupidly named history of food in America "The

2007-12-04T22:45:00.000-08:00

ArchipiediaI wish there was a user-edited site for compiling info about the contents of the thousands of Archie comics published in the last 65 years. There are sites out there that attempt to list the story titles in each comic, but that's not helpful enough. I want to do a single search for the word "Feminist" and get a list of every issue where that was a topic or where the topic is of

2007-12-04T22:42:00.000-08:00

Awesome Filler Item website searches Amazon for you to find the cheapest items that will push your total over $25 and activate free shipping. I love you internet!

2007-11-18T00:29:00.000-08:00

Pa Pa Pantsu Man Da!OMG this Japanese toilet training cartoon is better than drugs:

2007-10-08T11:44:00.000-07:00

(Archie's Joke Book #214, 1975)

2007-10-01T21:29:00.000-07:00

The story of Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine, posted without comment, except perhaps to note that to be a hero is to suffer.

2007-09-27T15:14:00.000-07:00

Flying Spaghetti Monster rewards faithful, appears in bag of candyThose who would doubt the divinity of his Holiness the FSM and his noodley ways by claiming him to be some sort of "fad" or "overplayed joke" were struck down Wednesday evening when his Divine visage appeared on a bag of candy at a Grocery Outlet in Pleasant Hill, California.Pastafarians rejoiced at his miraculous appearance, and

2007-07-17T20:26:00.000-07:00

And now, a word from my sponser:

2007-07-17T20:22:00.000-07:00

Read a Book!Here's the artist's website; it streams 3 non-crunk songs.Reminds me of The Tick's nemesis the Human Ton and his literate sidekick Handy, but alas there is no youtube of that.

2007-05-12T13:43:00.000-07:00

A classmate, knowing my affection for Banksy, alerted me that this week's New Yorker has a long article about him.

2007-05-09T23:44:00.000-07:00

Silver Rush!Today at a fundraiser for the college jewelry department, they were selling a bunch of broken tools and such, and I bought this jar of "junk silver" for 50 cents!I showed it to Josh in my next class, and he offered to use his skills as a Metalworking TA to refine the stuff. That sounded great to me, and we agreed to split the loot 50/50.The jar had about 3.5 pounds of gravelly black

2007-05-08T17:50:00.000-07:00

Subdivision is a Crime Against GodI took these pictures earlier today, overlooking the "Gateway" housing development aproximately 1 mile from Oakland, Ca near the Caldecott Tunnel.This pristine valley is being flattened into 250 homes for a bunch of Rich-Fucks. Oh well. Cick to enlarge!

2007-05-08T17:48:00.000-07:00

Competing Memes

2007-05-08T15:08:00.000-07:00

Kyu Sakamoto Performs on Japanese television circa 1963This isn't the best video I've ever seen, but something must be said for the internet's ability to provide a vast and ever increasing array of previously lost media.Jump to minute 1:10 to skip the host's intro and go straight to Kyu lip-synching "Anoko No Namae Wa."Kyu Sakamoto's "Ue o Muite Aruko," renamed "Sukyaki," was the first and last

2007-05-03T21:39:00.001-07:00

Swedish Rounding on Wikipedia

2007-04-22T17:43:00.000-07:00

Dutch band Shocking Blue's recording of their song Love Buzz, which was later covered by Nirvana for their first single. Awful yet intriguing. I kindof like it:

2007-04-16T09:58:00.000-07:00

Quick Quiz! Cursed-to-live-in-interesting-times edition: is it The Onion, or The Washington Post?The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the

2007-04-16T09:55:00.000-07:00

"YOU'RE STUPID! AND YOU"RE GONNA TO BE STUPID AND DEAD!"- I strongly suggest you check out this classic 1996 comic based on the video game DOOM.

2007-04-13T19:16:00.000-07:00

(my front yard)

2007-04-07T11:29:00.000-07:00

Convited Ex-CIA and Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, admits role in JFK assassination.

2007-04-05T22:23:00.000-07:00

A retired Fireman-hazmat-arson investigator told me today about the Fire Department's "Blue Canary Test" where they determine the safe distance to be from a chemical spill by setting up a perimeter at 1200 feet and then watching cops run straight past their perimeter to investigate the spill up-close. The distance from the spill where the cops pass out from the fumes creates a blue circle that

2007-04-04T12:15:00.000-07:00

Superboy stars in Subtext? What subtext?

2007-04-04T11:49:00.000-07:00

Swarm! Swarm!Oh, nevermind. It's just the vice-president.

2007-04-02T12:38:00.000-07:00

Friday Cat Blogging, now daily

2007-04-01T01:22:00.000-07:00

List of American Cities ranked by Liberal-ness.Kansas City is more liberal than Sunnyvale, while Detriot is #1, and Provo, Utah is #237.

2007-03-15T16:53:00.000-07:00

My cat's evolutionary advantage is his incredible cuteness, and yet, I've had him neutered to prevent his reproduction. Discuss.

2007-03-15T16:51:00.000-07:00

Listen to the irrate "Message 1: Pilotless Drone"

2007-03-10T20:07:00.000-08:00

Geghis Khan was coolGenghis Khan's empire connected and amalgamated the many civilizations around him into a new world order. At the time of his birth in 1162, the Old World consisted of a series of regional civilizations each of which could claim virtually no knowledge of any civilization beyond its closest neighbor. No one in China had heard of Europe, and no one in Europe had heard of China,

2007-03-09T00:35:00.000-08:00

"Doing something stupid once, is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy."- Dan O'Neill

2007-02-20T19:28:00.000-08:00

If you haven't seen Fox News' and arch-nutjob-Creator of 24's lame attempt at making a conservative Daily Show, consider yourself warned. Blogger John Rogers, cowriter of the Catowman screenplay, offers some genine insight into why it is so bad and provides some clips.

2007-02-15T22:57:00.000-08:00

What made ancient Egyptians think cats were divine? Why would God pee on my couch?

2007-02-15T22:54:00.000-08:00

For the record, Re: Geoff Pullum or Want to hear about how intuitive my cat is?Earlier today BoingBoing discussed an African Grey Parrot that is said to know 950 words. Later the post was updated to mention a rebuttal by Geoffrey K. Pullum. As a former student of Professor Pullum, I think it is important to note that he is in my experience, a speciesist. I guess most people are. But when

2007-02-15T21:43:00.000-08:00

Third and Final Biodivirsity of the StomachAbout a week ago, in response to Micheal Pollan's concern that two-thirds of our calories come from four plants, I undertook a project to catalog the different species I was eating with the general goal of eating as many different species as possible, and counting how many species that was. Doing this has given me some insight into the issue, and after

2007-02-11T14:24:00.000-08:00

Biodivirsty of the Stomach progress reportThe problem with trying to eat a lot of calories from plant sources other than Wheat, Soy, Corn, and Rice, is that things like parsnips don't have a lot of calories, and are kind of gross.

2007-02-09T12:01:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure if this story is more Hunter S Thompson or more William S Burroughs, that is to say, mostly fiction or mostly non-fiction. Either way, it is one of my favorites: Confessions of an eBay Opium Addict.

2007-02-08T14:57:00.000-08:00

The other six sins I understand, but this one doesn't make any sense to me.Thank you. Thank you. I'll be here for the rest of my life.

2007-02-08T14:28:00.000-08:00

Biodiversity of the StomachThis Michael Pollan NYT article closely represents my own current understanding of, and philosophy of, nutrition. You should check it out.I'm a big fan; Pollan's earlier book The Botany of Desire was fantasticly mind warping and I'm getting ready to read his newer tome The Omnivore's Dilemma. Inspired by Pollan's shocking, though murky claim: Today, a mere four crops

2007-02-05T00:48:00.000-08:00

Is it wrong to like the songs in iPod commercials? Warning: Catchy embeded music.

2007-02-02T20:24:00.000-08:00

Corporations are people tooOakland artists Isabel Reichert and Sean Fletcher formed a corporation and then hired their corporation, complete with time-clock, board of directors, and quarterly reports, to manage the budget for their daily lives. It's not the first performance piece by the couple either.Fletcher and Reichert's first collaborative life-art piece featured them having couples therapy

2007-02-01T00:19:00.000-08:00

Why does my CD player even have an "Anti-Skip" On/Off switch? It might as well come with a switch marked WORK-WELL/DON'T-WORK-AT-ALL.

2007-01-20T17:00:00.000-08:00

Jesus's General provides this clip of a Sam Sedar call in show on Air America about the feminization of America:

2007-01-20T15:38:00.000-08:00

I think my brain just orgasmedHaving read Carol J Adams' The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory a few years back, I have to say this might be the most amazing commercial I've ever seen. I hope someone is getting their Womens Studies doctorate right now by deconstructing this incredible nugget of cultural information. Even I could write a 200 page thesis deconstructing

2007-01-14T00:22:00.000-08:00

Woman #1: So, he takes me to see Eragon, and then he walks me to my door and he's like, 'Can I come up?' And I'm all like, 'No way,' and he's like, 'Why not?' And I'm like, ' 'Cause you had sex with my sister, you asshole!' Can you believe that?!Woman #2: Why did you even go out with him?Woman #1: I like dragons.via Overheard in New York

2007-01-13T12:38:00.000-08:00

Archie Andrews stars in Subtext? What Subtext?

2007-01-11T19:54:00.000-08:00

Mom, Stop Reading My BlogThis is not my way of communicating with you. < /most hilarious post ever >

2007-01-11T19:37:00.000-08:00

You probably heard about Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, and his swearing in on Thomas Jefferson's Koran, and I hope you've read this letter from Rep. Virgil Goode (R - Germany 1936), who sorta overlooks the fact that Ellison's family has been in America since 1742 to talk about his fear of muslim immigrants.But what you may not have heard about are the first two Buddhists

2007-01-11T19:01:00.000-08:00

Quotes Du Jour"It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails." - Condi Rice"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring." - Richard Feynman's last words."Geeks unite!" - Kurt Cobain

2007-01-09T19:42:00.000-08:00

Let's go camping!This week's death of Scooby Doo creator Iwao Takamoto, who learned to draw while imprisoned as a child at the Manzanar Internment Camp, comes just 3 days before the fifth aniversery of the opening of the Guantanamo Camp X-Ray where people including a 10 year old boy and a British man arrested for having a battery charger in his luggage are held with out trials, or charges,

2007-01-07T14:20:00.000-08:00

Highlights of 3 years of PiracyI've put my scanner to good use since starting this blog in 2003. I'm working on a gallery of all my images, but until then, here are a couple of my more substantive or favorite scans:Archie's girls, Betty and Veronica, learn about women's lib in Pep #282Click the image to read the entire 5 page storySpace Ghost creator Alex Toth drew this 6 page story for

2007-01-07T14:18:00.000-08:00

Look ma! I'm on BoingBoing!

2007-01-05T20:34:00.000-08:00

John Cole, the internet's only honest Republican, reviews Superman Returns: If this movie were a war, it would be Iraq... This movie was clearly made to make the Hulk remake look good by comparison. Don’t buy it. Don’t rent it. Don’t watch it. And if anyone tells you it was good, remember their names and ignore their movie advice in the future.I haven't actually seen Superman Returns; I just

2006-12-31T15:03:00.000-08:00

Socktopi Predicts the FutureHaving called Barack Hussein Obama "America's First Black President" back in 2004, I am going on the record today with my guess at the Republican and Democrat Presidental tickets in 2008.I predict the Republicans nominate Mike Huckabee with VP Condi Rice to run against a Dem ticket of Al Gore with Obama as VP.I fear a Huckabee nomination as he's a seemingly not crazy

2006-12-30T17:09:00.000-08:00

Tomoyasu Hotei performs Battle Without Honor or Humanity on Japanese TV

2006-12-25T11:56:00.000-08:00

Highlights of conservative commentary 2006Including such hits as Geraldo Rivera's "I've seen a hell of a lot more combat than John Kerry." and Fox News anchor John Gibson's response to America's future without a white majority, "Do your duty. Make more babies."

2006-12-21T01:02:00.000-08:00

Socktopi: Now updated several times every day, twice a month!This letter from Congressman Virgil Goode (R - Germany 1936) is beyond parody.There was probably some other stuff I meant to mention... but other than this verizon phone call, I forgot them all:

2006-12-09T18:00:00.000-08:00

Stream a great This American Life episode about an evangelical preacher brought down by scandal.

2006-11-28T21:12:00.000-08:00

The Proof is in the Pudding

2006-11-21T15:46:00.000-08:00

Bags! Bags! Bags! Bags! Bags!When Bob and David first wrote this, they called it the "Bag Box" but HBO's legal department sent the script back with a note... it turns out there was an actual product called Bag Box, presumably a device you could keep bags in.

2006-11-20T20:06:00.000-08:00

Pretty fucking funny.It was always a party of one, but now it's official. (Orman) nominated himself chairman, seconded the nomination, cast his vote for himself and proceeded to establish party rules. Make sure to read the convention minutes.

2006-11-18T18:15:00.000-08:00

Marijuana laws in Ann Arbor, Michigan

2006-11-17T15:27:00.000-08:00

Oh, Casper5. The fact that there are two different series, one named Casper the Friendly Ghost and one named The Friendly Ghost Casper, irritates me far out of proportion to its importance.

2006-11-11T17:50:00.000-08:00

Deal of the Century

2006-11-10T18:59:00.000-08:00

Alan Moore to play himself on The Simpsons?! Fuck Yeah! via

2006-11-10T14:49:00.000-08:00

Great improbable story about a Socialist who ran for senate in 1972, winning 2.2% of the vote.

2006-11-09T18:51:00.000-08:00

The clip of this I linked to last month has been removed from youtube, But you can't reseal Pandora's box:

2006-11-09T18:34:00.000-08:00

There is no index, but the most recent cartoon is herealso,"Each of my actions—from undersupplying troops with body armor to focusing on capturing Saddam Hussein while Osama bin Laden remained free—has led America inexorably toward our current state of extreme crisis. Well, anyway, goodbye! Link

2006-11-09T18:20:00.000-08:00

FYI, That's My Bush! is now on DVD. Comedy Central cancelled this show because it cost too much to make: Almost a million bucks per episode. It's not like Trey Parker didn't personally earn them hundreds of millions and counting. And apparently we can't apply this rational to new seasons of Drawn Together and Carlos Mencia and Carlos Mencia on Drawn Together. Frankly, if Comedy Central is paying

2006-11-09T18:14:00.000-08:00

And I may have linked to this before, but Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?

2006-11-09T18:03:00.000-08:00

As long as this blog is going all gay all the time, I might as well link to this Larry King Live clip of Bill Maher which I actually caught on TV last night. When I saw it, I thought "I wish i could blog that segment, but I won't be able to get a copy of that clip." Internet to the rescue! Due in no small part to CNN cutting what Maher said from the later rebroadcast, the clip. is. everywhere!

2006-11-08T12:53:00.000-08:00

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum

2006-11-08T12:14:00.000-08:00

How to pay off like $25,000 of credit card debt.

2006-11-08T00:37:00.000-08:00

Dems win! Ride the Snake!

2006-11-06T23:35:00.000-08:00

Wait, Doogie Houser is teh gay? Dorian links to this helpful clip:And while were on the subject of Dorian and teh gay, I found Dorian's Early Memories interesting too:My first exposure to the concept of homosexuality was actually in health class. Someone, apparently, had decided that we should have this AIDS business explained to us, because it had been in the news and didn't seem to be going

2006-11-06T17:53:00.000-08:00

Beck on SNLLast week's performance was probably one the most interesting SNL musical numbers ever.

2006-11-03T09:40:00.000-08:00

GOP Throws All Financial Support Behind One CandidateSCOTTSDALE, AZ—With just seven days remaining until the mid-term elections, the National Republican Congressional Committee has allocated its remaining $256 million cash-on-hand to Arizona incumbent J. D. Hayworth's campaign, in the hopes of retaining at least one House seat. "Considering Rep. Hayworth's strong stance against terrorism and this

2006-11-03T09:37:00.000-08:00

Too sad to joke about.

2006-11-02T17:57:00.000-08:00

What Boing Boing said:The DMCA is so poorly conceived and written that even the nuttiest, most deranged of trolls can abuse it into silencing constitutionally-protected online speech.Glad nothing like that ever happened to me.

2006-11-02T10:17:00.000-08:00

Big DogMy camera is literally the cheapest one you can buy, and is not really designed for capturing bombastic politicians on rainy, hyperlit, airport tarmacs, but you get what you pay for, and here is the blurry proof:Holy shit I was close to the President last night! If I'd been there a half hour earlier, I probably would have been 5 feet closer and shook his hand. But whatever.Even with rings

2006-10-24T16:16:00.000-07:00

A piece of straw for the camel's back:--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl--AZ-01: Rick Renzi--AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth--CA-04: John Doolittle--CA-11: Richard Pombo--CA-50: Brian Bilbray--CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave--CO-05: Doug Lamborn--CO-07: Rick O'Donnell--CT-04: Christopher Shays--FL-13: Vernon Buchanan--FL-16: Joe Negron--FL-22: Clay Shaw--ID-01: Bill Sali--IL-06: Peter Roskam--IL-10: Mark Kirk--IL-14: Dennis Hastert

2006-10-17T13:26:00.000-07:00

Great and inovative Japanese subway ads.

2006-10-16T12:31:00.000-07:00

Betty and Veronica Fashion Page:Wait... what?

2006-10-16T10:51:00.000-07:00

The secret ingrediant is almonds!Back in March, I related that acording to Tim Leary's autohagiography, William James huffed nitrous and wrote, while high: "the secret of the universe is the smell of burned almonds."And recently, we learned that according to space tourist Ansari "I smelled "SPACE." It was strange… kind of like burned almond cookie."Coincidence? I doubt it.

2006-10-13T14:10:00.000-07:00

Surreal Nancy Mash-ups, in the spirit of 5 Card Nancy, via this large Nancy roundup.

2006-10-12T15:29:00.000-07:00

Listen to Ken Jennings on this week's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me"

2006-10-12T15:20:00.000-07:00

MK-ULTRA, meet MK-ULTRA II, Electric Boogaloo.

2006-10-09T19:32:00.000-07:00

Dear Comedy Central,Carlos Mencia will never be Dave Chappelle.Love,Socktopi

2006-10-09T19:30:00.000-07:00

Couldn't we kill two birds with one stone by building the Wall of Tolerance along the Mexican border?