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Country music has to hit me just right to work, and a lot of it doesn't. I like this, though, and while they never broke my guitar, United Airlines has put me through some gawdawful bullshit in the past, so this video strokes me in a number of fuzzy places.

If anyone out there understands WordPress and ComicPress AND can show me how to apply them to a webpage layout of my own design AND could suss out how to make 3 or 4 such sites "talk" to each other through a central hub site without breaking teh Intarwubs AND can help me accomplish all this on the cheap OR can provide a recommendation for someone ( Read more... )

Chris Ware: painfully revealing human misery and making you chuckle all at the same time.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo.

So, a friend sent me a link to some article about how PETA asked the Pet Shop Boys to change their name to the Rescue Shelter Boys or some silly crap like that - really PETA, make yourself look like complete drama whores - but in the process I found a link to a new video by the pair, which has the double advantage of A) being a catchy tune, and B) ( Read more... )

Just curious to see if anyone I know is going to show up at AnimeIowa this year. Just got the registration card in the mail, and possibly early registration would keep potential costs low.

I'm planning on going to WizardWorld in Chicago during the previous weekend, but AnimeIowa is within very convenient driving range, so if there's a reason for me ( Read more... )

So I was at the comic shop, and saw this can under the counter where they keep all their Japanese snacks like Pocky and such:


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Because, for crap's sake, I am sick to death of stupid people trying to avoid having to think about the conversations that are happening right in front of them by bleating "but you're arguing semaaaannntics" as if "semantics" was some sort of disease that was going to make what remains of their brains come dribbling out their nose.

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Here, have a brick of awesome...

Kutiman: The Mother of all Funk Chords

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Kutiman has made an album of sorts called "Thru You" - the idea is, he's made the music and videos completely from sampled and remixed YouTube videos. That he puts together anything listenable is amazing enough; what pushes it over the edge for me is that quite a few of the 7 ( Read more... )

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My favorite physical CD-buying emporium is Record Collector, in Iowa City. It's not huge, but it has a wide and varied selection (one of the few places to get vinyl records), and being in a university town, there's always a decent rack of used CDs, sold by some student looking to ditch his avant-garde phase of musical listening for some beer money ( Read more... )