A WEEKEND IN DEATH CITYWednesday, September 30, 2009
Certain cities have a poetic mortality attached to them–they’d make a great place to die. Dangerous in their underlying temptations, these death cities range from predictable (Las Vegas) to hmmm, really? (Portland). Yes, Portland, aka Death City, according to my boyfriend. How could this scenic indie paradise be so menacing? To me it always seemed like Austin or Minneapolis, one of those mellow, scenic cities where punks go to breed. Aside from the heroin it seemed pretty safe. |
ALMOST FAMOUSWednesday, September 30, 2009 Shirt by Cheap Monday and jacket by Ben Sherman If one fashion shoot of us recreating your favorite film scenes with regular people wasn’t enough, here’s another! |
INFILTRATING THE FREEMASONSWednesday, September 30, 2009
Everyone knows freemasons run the world, right? I’ve heard the stories. It’s all virgin sacrifices, goat blood, and orgies. They created the New World Order, they worship the devil, and they killed Marilyn Monroe. Also, Jack the Ripper was totally a freemason. Being the hardcore investigative journalist that I am, I decided infiltrate them and uncover a dastardly conspiracy that was bound to go all the way to the top. |
HOW I QUIT CRACKWednesday, September 30, 2009
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TWEETING FOR HARVEY PEKARWednesday, September 30, 2009 Adam Roth drew this Editor and Reggae musician Jeff Newelt’s job is to take his conversations with one of the angriest technophobes–and greatest comics writers–on the planet, Harvey Pekar, and then translate them into Twitter. Harvey Pekar doesn’t understand the point of computers, and I couldn’t agree more, at least as far as Twitter is concerned. |
INK UP THOSE HEINEYS, ZENTROPA INTERNSWednesday, September 30, 2009
I occasionally flip through books on corporate branding but I don’t really read them because A: they’re mostly boring and B: also pretty much obsolete by the time they’re out. But I do welcome new thoughts on the subject, like last week when Peter Ålbæk, co-owner of Danish film company Zentropa, encouraged all his interns to tattoo the company logo on their asses. He publicly announced that those who complied would have “better looking” paychecks and be first in line for promotions. The Zentropa logo is a snide graphic rendition of a capital “Z,” meaning tattooing it on your butt pretty much implies that you’ve been sodomized by a 2.0 Zorro. When I went to visit, a few Zentropa interns already had it done. Kudos, kids. Read the rest of this entry » |
HEY RON - I WANT TO STEAL SOMEBODY’S BOYFRIENDTuesday, September 29, 2009
The mess Ron has to clean up this week is sloppier than a dung beetle’s hind legs during a dysentery pandemic: A college girl in the middle of nowhere wants a guy she likes to break up with his long-term girlfriend and get with her. Keep reading to find out why Ron says her wishes fall under the category of “big-time no-no.” Read the rest of this entry » |
WORLD MOUSTACHE CHAMPIONSHIPSTuesday, September 29, 2009
We did a book this summer called Eurotash. It’s about moustaches and it’s about Europe. In order to get away with it we had to grow moustaches, and being competitive little sons of bitches, figured what better way to close the book than to enter the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Grundau, Western Germany. Read the rest of this entry » |
HAVING NO FUN IN SWEDENTuesday, September 29, 2009
Having the No Fun Fest in Sweden after six years of No Fun in New York was kind of like going to Sea World in San Antonio and then going to Sea World in San Diego. There is a better Shamu in San Antonio, but the dolphins are happier in San Diego. Seeing the bands in another setting wasn’t that big of a change from the norm, but the bands were super excited to be there, and some of the Swedish kids who have never seen, say, Wolf Eyes or Emeralds before, were beside themselves. |
WHITE SHITTuesday, September 29, 2009
It took us a few google searches to find some streaming White Shit. The band with Andy Coronado, the guitarist from Monorchid and Skull Kontrol. It features two other guys (Cody Willis and Jared Waren) from the Karp/Big Business/Melvins family of eardrum destroyers and someone named TITS on bass, not the actual stuff. |
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