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One well-known side effect of working retail in the runup to Christmas is hearing enough Christmas songs on the radio to drive even the most phlegmatic sales clerk to madness and despair. But it also gives one the opportunity -- whether one likes it or not -- to actually hear and listen to the lyrics of songs one only known the chorus of, if even ( Read more... )

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Also as a result of working at a PLCB store, I've started doing things like this:


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After a month of temping at the local Pennsylvania State Boozatorium, I've compiled an informal list of what people seem to drink the most around these parts:

What People Drink Around Here: An Informal Summary

• Hazlitt Red Cat
• Captain Morgan
• Vladimir
• Black Velvet
• Blackberry brandy

Most mix CDs I make have a title (an inside joke, a reference, or just some suitable phrase) and then a subtitle explaining what they're for, such as "The Hell F***ing Yeah Mix: Music to get fired up to" (it was funnier with the censored "Fuck"), or "Overslept Again: Music to get dressed to", or "Move 'Zig': Music for great justice", or "Know Ye ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the batshit craziest World War II propaganda cartoon it has ever been my pleasure to watch.

Thrill as the breathless, hyperactive narrator rhapsodizes about ears of corn long enough to stretch from London to the Black Sea, and knitting spaghetti into a sweater eight thousand miles high! Marvel at the bizarre, ( Read more... )

Remember that place I said I wanted to live?

Hey look. Fullscreen 360° panoramas (javascript required).

I am dying of how beautiful this is.