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Vermilion Pleasure Night

By VKlaus • Mar 21st, 2010 • Category: Anime

Hot: You know those old videos that were all the rage back in the day that were about playing classical music overtop of bright and colorful things that were supposed to make an army of super intelligent babies but actually did more to develop ADD than anything resembling intelligence? Well “Vermilion Pleasure Night” is sort [...]



Learning and Reimagining the Tarot: First Card – The Hanged Man

By Giania • Jan 24th, 2010 • Category: Featured

Hot: This first card was challenging. Back on the 13th, when I first set down my intentions for this project, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do. I spent the next ten days reading things, assimilating concepts, arguing with myself, and cutting up magazines with the thought of [...]



Portland Travelogue Part 2: Phantasmagorical Food Awesometown & Don’t drink the mouthwash

By Giania • Oct 1st, 2009 • Category: Potent Potables

Hot: So here it is, Thursday morning. I’d like to talk to you for a moment about food, and some crappy absinthe, but first, food. There may have already been some food (and general trip) related photos, so make sure you’re keeping tabs on my flickr, which I didn’t even know that ping.fm posted to [...]



High-larious High-jinx: Airport Security Boo-Boo & Ancient Pot

By Giania • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Articles of Interest

Hot: It’s a two for one special! Come for the paraphrasing of a pretty funny BBC article, and stay for the hook up on ancient cannabis usage! I happened to pop my head into the ectochat and what to my wondering eyes did appear but a BBC article link! Upon following it I discovered that [...]



Apologies for infinitedesu & New RKNet Friends

By Giania • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: Recursion

Hot: I just want to apologize for any visitors who have actually gone to infinitedesu.com. While I feel as though I did provide fair warning when I originally linked it, I was looking at WPStats and couldn’t help but notice that people have actually clicked on that. What you will find, upon visiting infinitedesu.com is [...]



Madness at the Desk: Friday Overload

By Giania • Jan 18th, 2008 • Category: Fnord

Hot: Badass art blog named after a badass Slowdive song. (see video below) Chatlog: Brian: if only her head wasnt full of air G: it’s not even hot air. it’s the same air that’s been there since birth. It’s since stagnated and aided in the generation of mutant virii that, if ever released, would wipe [...]



Best You’ve Never Heard: Maher Shalal Hash Baz

By Giania • Nov 19th, 2007 • Category: Audio

Hot: My dear associate SlyFloyd has a very good handle on the hip-hop world, and has brought some really great artists to light. I, on the other hand, know approximately jack-squat about hip-hop with the exception of a few artists that I assume most folks have heard about already. (Talib Kweli, anyone?) I’m far more [...]



Not Too Much Further to that Long Overdue Brain Transplant

By Giania • Nov 19th, 2007 • Category: Articles of Interest, Fnord, Science!

Hot: Via Technoccult – Researchers in Japan have been grafting the chilled, severed heads of baby rats onto the haunches of adult rats. It’s been noted that the brain can develop as normal for as much as three weeks in this state. Maybe lab rats have evolved into really big cyberpunk fans, and they’re hoping [...]



The Tale of Genji on the Web

By Giania • Jun 16th, 2007 • Category: Art, History, Literature

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 [...]



Musical Discovery: Cocorosie

By Giania • May 10th, 2007 • Category: Audio, Fnord, media

Hot: Anyone who still reads at my “old location” knows that I’ve been having a bit of a family crisis. So yesterday while driving to the Portsmouth Regional Hospital, I was fussing with the radio, trying to find some kind of music that didn’t suck. This task is often challenging in this area, as they [...]