Amar always writes these like two word reviews of artworks he's seen so that he can remember them. I went to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and had that in mind.

James Hampton "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly"

A foil throne. A giant, crazy altar.

Thomas Wilmer DewingSergeant knock-off from when ( Read more... )

Look, everybody, I voted for Capuano and then I voted for Coakley.

Fucking fuck fuck.

Even if including a recording backward guitar or a backward horn track doesn't automatically make your song sound awesome, it has never made it sound worse than it would have sounded otherwise. Am I right?

So, I walked into Twisted Village, a record store in Harvard Square, and the clerk had this really cute baby who was staring at me. Electronic tones beeped on the store's P.A.

"Is this Soothing Sounds for Baby?" I asked ( Read more... )

Google rarely fucks up so badly, but they've got to have somebody rethinking their completely fucktarded idea of including live Twitter updates in their search results. Twitter is dying y'all. And there's basically nothing more useless than seeing that 1000s of people are saying the same stupid shit about news item X.

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Just saw this John Cage video on Alex Ross's awesome blog. I love that it's basically a musical slapstick sequence, and, since Cage is performing it live in front of a game show audience of regular folks, people are laughing and enjoying it instead of sitting still in awed silence. Still unclear to me which reaction Cage would like better, but, ( Read more... )

Dudes and Dudines. Conservapedia is like Dickipedia for crazy people. The entry on Obama, for example, has a lengthy section on "Obamunism," including a subsection on Larry Summers(!) a man whose "evil views qualify him to be the economic advisor to Hugo Chavez of Venezuela or Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, but do not qualify him to be an economic ( Read more... )

( This entire post is a long, rambling, and probably boring BSG spoiler )

Hey, Karin, me too.