Oh man, I just saw Batman Begins at our local Imax Theatre. I don’t know if it’s because I was Batman-obsessed in my youth and haven’t been satisfied by the last 2.5 Batman movies (3.5 if you count Catwoman), or…
Archive for June, 2005
6.30.05
The Essential Ghoul’s Record Shelf
- An MP3 blog that describes itself as “A song-by-song tour through pop music’s unexpected fascination with the ghastly and supernatural.”
6.29.05
Detroitfunk’s footage of the old Studebaker plant and surrounding area burning last week.
The cheering crowd is a little disheartening.
6.29.05
Thousands of old 45s in one lot on eBay.
6.28.05
Post-its have become the ‘hot’ mosaic medium lately.
6.24.05
- more Rubik’s cubes as mosaics
6.24.05
- An independant LEGO magazine, full issue free to download
6.16.05
Roger Joseph Manning Jr’s absolutely obscene credits listing
“Hi, I played on everything, ever.”
I just saw Neko Case at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit. In the middle of the set, she mentioned that she had heard that Houdini had died in the theatre. I’ve heard the same story a number of times…
6.15.05
Author of the Anarchist Cookbook on his changed views
and inability to dissociate his name from the work due to copyright nuance.
6.15.05
I finally finished all 100 puzzles in Polarium for the DS. Now what?
Polarium-puzzles.com offers dozens of user-submitted puzzles
6.13.05
Bjork and Matthew Barney team up on 2+ hour feature.
Site features playable samples from the soundtrack. And people called Bjork weird BEFORE.
6.13.05
Brick Magazine auctions manuscript pages, other ephemera from contemporary authors.
Including a draft of Jonathan Letham’s excellent ‘Beards.’
6.11.05
Ben Mildenhall’s Nintendo-themed Lego mosaics.
Two great tastes, etc.
Several months ago, I gathered a bunch of examples of coded messages hidden in liner notes. Presuming that such passing involvement qualified me to identify examples of such, I was positive that the hideous coverart for Coldplay’s latest album contained…
6.8.05
A parody by the Organic Trade Association. Well done.
6.8.05
Dane Cook’s Tom Cruise impression on Jimmy Kimmel
- Highlight: he bites Nelly’s arm. (via K-Sto)
6.2.05
Awesome Monster Attack T-shirt.
Too bad it’s printed on white. Their other designs are all pretty good, too.