The Celebrity Power 12 To my great satisfaction, I have enlisted into the ranks of lo-fi technologies, the super heavy weight mechanics of the durable Sears Celebrity Power 12 Electric Typewriter into my growing arsenal of old world devices. It helps me get work done around HQ and excites the tactile senses long left dormant …
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On board I’m the captainOK. Styx. Come Sail Away. I never really appreciated the full epic proportions of that song until today. What an anthem. Dennis De Young singing way too overconfidently about angels, childhood and UFO’s – weird shit. It starts out all mellow and classical and then gets super heavy and then descends …
Illuminated Lamb…Holidazzles your lawn A trip to Menards revealed to me what everyone will be receiving for the holidays. They had other animals to complete your nativity scene but I think just The Lamb will do fine thanks. After receiving his in the mail, The Good Doctor decided that the best way to enjoy his …
Not in my backyardSpecial odd fallacies in the dim light of the morning, make me question the intentions of my neighbors. I rose exceptionally early yesterday, with a hangover and a desire to settle down with black coffee and a copy of Harper’s. Maybe I could repel the morning cold with the tight arguments of …
Too much workingDamn deadlines keeping me from posting proper. Frantically coding to the finish line of another Friday. Listening to the frenetic The Streets “Original Pirate Material“. Great record. Got all my hair whacked off at the Aveda School today. That place is nuts. 400 white lab coat wearing girls running around spraying each other …
Daily design for the avant garde soul For the budding typographer on your holiday shopping list, might I recommend this sleek calendar designed by Kit Hinrichs. Each month highlights a classic type with a brief description. It’s more of an art piece really then a calendar that you would want to write all over, but …
Then they came for your libraries.It looks very real that there is going to be a ’round two’ in the battle over The Children’s Internet Protection Act – the law which sought to impose private filtering software on library computers. The aim of course is to steer young viewers away from sexual content on the …
css face liftOK. Things look a little different over here at Afrojet. You dig? I wanted to create a design that abandoned html and the ubiquitous spacer.gif forever while converting everything to standards compliant css and xhtml. With this new design I have left behind the antiquated Netscape (4.X) and Explorer (4.X) browsers in favor …
capsized dancers make jennifer dark and rawWhy do we do this to ourselves? Knowing full well that Bjork’s movie Dancer in the Dark was going to bury both the missis and me in a deep and dark funk-hole, one that we would need to hire an excavating crew to rescue us from, we nevertheless decided …
cruising salonI seem to be getting a bounty of emails about this wonderful Garrison Keillor article on Salon about Norm Colman’s vapidness. As salon mentions, it’s “premium content” but it’s worth the price. In the article, Keillor calls Minnesota voters decision to go the Norm “one of those dumb low-rent mistakes”. I love the sentiment …