Sleeping John Menaces Mate The news headlines take on a very ominous tone when you have a Hurricane named after you. The AP wire slings adjectives that I don’t normally associate with my character. To wit: “John menaced Mexican tourist resorts on Wednesday”, “John is intensifying rapidly”, “John is expected to pound Acapulco”, “John grew …
Monthly Archives: August 2006
I Want To Be A Guitar Hero Ok. So someone made this video game where you get to prove how awesomely Eddie Van Halen you can get, where your street cred is measured by the speed of your virtual arpeggios and, the fate of the world rests on your ability to hammer out the solo …
Triple Trouble Well it took all of Thursday and Friday plus most of the weekend to recover from the Gorilla Biscuits concert in Seattle. Getting old is a one hell of a drag. The body just doesn’t snap back to it’s proper form the way it use to. If there were Gorilla Biscuit shows every …
Time Flies Sunday night the misses and I marked the anniversary of our first full year in Portland with a BBQ in the backyard. Unfortunately the celebration was cut short with the arrival of teaming swarms of bees that had a hunger for sweet corn and a thirst for Asian lager. It’s been a fast …
Metal By Numbers 1 2 3 Hilarious video by Brian Posehn (featuring Scott Ian). Make sure to check the ending where the Posehn metal logo is revealed. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiVMrWMHko]
The Skeltons Are Expanding Dear Readers, The rumors are true. The misses has been working on a secret little project for the last 15 weeks and it is now time that all is revealed. You guessed it. With the aid of potato chips, fudge bars, and fresh cherries, she’s been busy growing another addition to …
Experiments on Cats Do cats understand the notion of ‘Freedom’? I’m guessing no. Even so, our two little fur muppets have been feeling somewhat revolutionary as of late. Could have something to do with Fidel Castro feeling a bit under-the-weather these days? Perhaps the cats felt some of the deeper seismic shifts in the geo-political …
There Are Some Things That Never Die Man, the amount of old school punk/hardcore media that’s been resurfacing on sites like YouTube and Flickr is becoming positively daunting. It’s like all the old Zines from the 80’s and 90’s got drunk on a few cases of Milwaukee’s Best one night and threw up all over …
All The Colors of a Lotus The new West Elm catalog is really pushing the boundaries of cognitive color association. A good example are these fab lotus pillows. I kind of like the “orange” one. But orange is not a color option to choose from. Want to match wits with the West Elm marketing department? …