Archive for November, 2004

     Having fallen embarrassingly behind in the maintenance of Acmenoveltyarchive.org, I thought I would make an attempt at bringing the following item to people’s attention before its too late:

     Cartoonist Chris Ware and ‘This American Life‘ Host…

     I can’t be the first person to come up with this idea, but I’m amazed it hasn’t actually been executed yet. Maybe it has and I just don’t know it.

FADE IN: CUBICLE.

BORED EMPLOYEE (ON PHONE): Yes. (LONG

     I finally got my hands on that functional japanese gramophone model kit thing that I wrote about here. What follows is my review! Get excited!

     I’d previously been thwarted in my efforts to order it…

     Wow… Just – WOW. People got paid to record this in an expensive studio. I’m amazed there hasn’t been a flash video for this in a b3ta newsletter yet.

     RIYL: People sticking their heads in your room and…

     Adrian Tomine did this week’s New Yorker Cover. Just in the past few months, Seth and Adrian Tomine. The only complaint I can possibly come up with is that they inexplicably don’t offer these ‘cartoonist’ covers through their…

     Speaking as a person who has done some programming, the following bits of information are troubling:

  • Instances of computer errors in Bush’s favor (In Ohio) have been confirmed (Link, Similar story in NC).
  • “One thing that

     Back before I started ‘updating regularly’ again, I wrote a big piece on obscure Canadian 70’s rockers Klaatu (There was a persistent rumor that they were the Beatles re-formed). You can read it here. Jamie Vernon, the man…

     Fox has already called Ohio, CNN maintains it’s still too close, and I’m going to bed. Meanwhile, people are still voting in Ohio (link to first-hand account). I really hope Kerry stands his ground and waits for each…

     In the past few weeks I’ve been finding some great stuff in the ‘Dollar Racks’ in the front of my local Target store: dollar DVD’s.

     Just before Halloween I managed to pick a few schlocky 60’s horror double-feature discs (One…