Hot: “There’s an implied obligation of those (myself included) who own these nuggets of history to share them, not squirrel them away in some dusty shoebox only to risk oblivion via flood, fire, or neglect.”- Gary The Adolph Sutro’s Victorian Cliff House sat upon a cliff in San Fransisco over looking The Sutro Baths for [...]
Hot: Simple links that summarize my feelings for this particular pseudo holiday that inspires more jealousy, depression, and ill-will than possibly even Christmas! Wordlab – $122.98 Says I Love You In which the spending habits of the besotted and pussywhipped are discussed. Ectomo – Lupercalia: Happy Fucking Valentine’s Day In which the dubious history of [...]
Hot: Let it never be said that I throw complete disfavor upon arbitrary, stupid holidays based around the martyrdom of one of three possible guys in order to overwrite pagan tradition. Far from it, any excuse to get more color in my dreary winter, and of course free candy, is a good excuse. That said [...]
Hot: No, not the abandonment issues you the gentle readers feel when I neglect to update. Nor the abadonment issues my shoutcast listeners recently developed due to my foolish desire to pull the plug on that project. The abandonment in question is a series of really engrossing photos on buildings and areas in the former [...]
Hot: They overshot the number for maximum snarky humor by 222. The Daily Kos has provided a link to the list of committee members who will be dealing directly with this bill in their lengthy commentary. I have no idea why only the Democrats have outbound links. As with any law-related item, it is strongly [...]
Hot: When I read this fascinating article from Soviet Poster A Day on a piece of Constructivist advertising from Soviet Russia in 1923, I’m somewhat ashamed to say that the first thing that came to mind was this: (Related: For a complete and total waste of your time that may also induce seizures among the [...]
Hot: Via the rumor mill and Snopes: There has been a lot of buzz surrounding “2007 as the year we may lose Equal Rights Voting”. As per usual, Snopes has been kind enough to illustrate thatthis simply is not true. The right to vote for all (males) regardless of color was secured with the Fifteenth [...]
Hot: From the UN’s Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, and MonkeyFilter comes this link to a beautifully presented full translation of the Tale of Genji. The web layout comes in small, easy to read chunks for those of us who have trouble staring at large blocks of text, and it also presents the gorgeous illustrations [...]
Hot: Via Maybe Logic.com: Maybe Logic “is” a hilarious and mind-bending journey into the multi-dimensional life of Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy. Featuring video spanning 25 years and the best of 100 hours of footage thoroughly tweaked, transmuted and regenerated, Maybe Logic follows the ever-open eye of Pope Bob as he penetrates [...]
Hot: So today has been re-affirmed as “Loyalty Day” by our current Commander in Chief. Well… okay, fine, whatever. It’s not as though we don’t already have a number of patriotic-themed holidays that we thoroughly ignore despite these types of reminders. What’s one more? The whole thing smacks of Orwellian doublespeak, to be sure, but [...]
