Just posted a new article about Whitest Boy Alive and Husky Rescue over at my music blog, The Spacing Guild Guide to the Humanities. Check it out if you know what's good for your ears!

Incidentally, it's also crossposted at Pegritz(.com)! as well, so you can check it out there as well, but you'll be missing out on the cool Amazon.com links and ( Read more... )

I finally downloaded and installed Windows Vista RC1 on my old fileserver computer last night and played around with it for a bit. And the verdict is ( Read more... )

WHY do colleges and universities schedule students into "remedial" writing courses like, say, Waynesburg or Cal U's ENG 100, and then also schedule them for history/philosophy/etc. classes that require mad amounts of research papers? They're in ENG 100 to be prepared to do college writing, yet in other classes they're already expected to be doing ( Read more... )

"We will crush your heads!" said Saddam Hussein at his trial today.

CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH!

I AM CRUSHING YOUR KURDISH HEADS!

Art and MedicineYes, there are plenty of cool vintage medical photos there to tickle your grotesque fancy ( Read more... )

For those of you who DON'T know, I, Derek C. F. Pegritz, in my guise as RETAR-D2, will be rocking it out tomorrow at the Garfield Artworks! 8pm! BE THERE ( Read more... )

Holy crap...I don't know what the heck has been plagueing me today, but I literally cannot stop coughing. Yes, that old familiar curse has come back to haunt me yet again. I've been having some major allergy troubles all weekend--been eating Benadryl like they were Smarties--an, yes, sometimes if my allergies get too bad they'll really irritate my ( Read more... )

Holy christ, the new Camouflage album, Relocated, is the second-best synthpop album of this year, after Depeche Mode's positively sublime Playing the Angel. In fact, Relocated sounds like Playing the Angel's less-hyped, but just as creative, younger brother. This music is perfect background sound for working out class notes and assignments, so eolh, ( Read more... )

Whitest Boy Alive are my new favorite band. Dreams is the best indie rock album of 2006. 'Nuf sed ( Read more... )

Cane Hill, an abandoned looney bin in London, is just what I imagine Thomas Ligotti's "Dr. Locrian's Asylum" would look like.