OK, so I installed Dum-Dum, because I like the look of it. K2 was starting to get … well, crusty, I guess. In the process I also had to upgrade my entire WP engine. Fortunately, it went far better than my last MacOSX upgrade. Things appear to more or less be working still, and I’ve got this perky graphical […]
Archive for August, 2008
Even I Don’t Agree with This
Micheline Calmy-Rey, the Swiss Foreign Minister, has gone on record saying that peace talks with Osama Bin Laden are the only way to effectively combat terrorism. I have a major issue with that, and it’s not the obvious one.1 OBL is a figurehead; he doesn’t and wouldn’t speak for terrorists, not even in Qaeda. Reaching détente with […]
If Illustrator were a Microsoft Product…
Being a Drama in One Act. [Launch] [Click] You have selected the Pen Tool! [OK] [Click] You have made an anchor point! [OK] [Click] You have made another anchor point! [OK, OK, got it already!] [Click, drag] You have made a curved anchor point! You seem to be drawing a Bézier. Would you like me to help? [NO, tits or GTFO!] [Click, […]
What’s a Girl to Do?
Bat for Lashes, 2006. Three takes. The fun part is finding the breaks. Get the album here. I own it. You should too, to be teh kewl. This is what MTV used to do, back when it didn’t suck, kids. H/T Me. (Same vid, diff blog, and actually not me; that’s someone else’s nom de plume.)
The Hoax isn’t the Story
So now we know (and are shocked, I’m sure, to learn) that the “bigfoot” “carcass” was actually a monkey suit on ice. It’s not the hoax that’s really the story here, though; it’s that the hoaxters seemed to believe they’d be able to get away with it. One of the two men in the fraud is a sheriff, and […]
Golly! Why is Obama’s Lead so Slim?
Isn’t it obvious? It’s because no one in white America wants to vote for a nigger.
Whoops!
My second blogaversary passed on the 16th! I’m always so damned inconsiderate. Not only did I forget — I didn’t even get me anything. What an ass.
Worth Listening To
Byrne and Eno1 have a forthcoming release, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. Get a nice little taste of it right now… == 1. David and Brian, respectively.
A Guns-in-School Twofer
Harrold Independent School District in (of course) Texas has OKed teachers and staff bringing firearms to school. This festering stupidity begins and ends with David Thweatt (the district’s superintendent), it seems, who offers up these statements as evidence of his own severe retardation: He said the district’s lone campus sits 500 feet from heavily trafficked U.S. […]
Whose Fault?
Larry King, fifteen, was shot quite dead at school last year by a classmate who didn’t like to face the reality that King was gay. Rather than put the blame where it belongs — on his murderer — King’s parents are suing his school because administrators “permitted” him to show up in drag. Of course, if the administrators […]
Über-retro, or, Going Medieval (or at least Renaissance) on the Doctors
n.b.: This is a long post on graphic design, typography and commercial art. It is full of images. Peruse if you wish, but don’t bill me for the bandwidth suckage, or any other suckage you may encounter. Caveat lector. I take a relatively unorthodox approach to graphic design, it seems. Relatively in the sense that what I do […]
Who’s Supporting What, Now?
Unnamed airlines, according to the VFW, are charging troops extra fees for the baggage they check — as they’re going off to war. This raises two questions: What happened to military transport? And How many of these airlines are chaired and owned by Republicans with “Support Our Troops” magnets on their SUVs? You’d think there would be a little […]
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