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Posts Tagged ‘media’

Bullshittin’ With Sketch – Henry Rollins

By Sketch E Whiteface • Jan 27th, 2010 • Category: Featured

Hot: Hey folks, I’m not dead. Now that’s out of the way, on to the main event. I’m quite the fan of Henry Rollins, anything he’s in I’ll watch, any interview that’s out there I’ll look into – I really dig on him. I’ve seen his spoken word twice before, once in my native state [...]



The Hat Of War and Peace or THE NAZI TURTLE WHO WAS ACTUALLY A NAZI GENERAL ALSO A HUNCHBACK

By VKlaus • Nov 12th, 2009 • Category: Fiction

Hot: So those kids over at White Chapel, had a a delightful little idea: Group Fiction. You know the old threads on message boards were one person would start a story and the next person would right the next four words and so on? EX from them boys at Fast Karate: GOKU1838471: Goku was walking [...]



The Old Guard and The New Aeon: Bukowski & His Mac IIsi

By Giania • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Articles of Interest

Hot: 16-bit Intel 8088 chip with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack programs in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file you have created on an IBM Personal Computer. both Kaypro and Osborne computers use the CP/M operating system but can’t read each other’s handwriting for they format [...]



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 [...]



Love at First Listen: The Go! Team – Bottle Rocket

By Giania • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Audio

Hot: Bottle Rocket – The Go! Team I was minding my own business when: Digging through my collection I stumbled across a compilation with a few tracks I wanted to get in my list for the day, and opted to listen to the whole thing. This sweet jam surprised me with horns that screamed 70′s [...]



Love at First Listen: Beautiful Small Machines – Counting Back to 1

By Giania • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Audio

Hot: Edited to remove imeem embed, since it only played 30 seconds. This poppy, energetic, tightly executed ditty grabbed me in the first few seconds the way few songs have in a while (since the Fleet Foxes’ White Winter Hymnal, I reckon). It’s a super catchy balance of techno precision and warm pop sensibilities, wrapped [...]



I MAED A R3V13W OF A I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES (IN IT)!!!1

By Giania • Aug 31st, 2009 • Category: Video Games

Hot: Right from the start when I saw the red-on-black characters I recall from the DOS days of yore, and the eagerness expressed in the all-caps 1337 misspelled name, I knew that I would love this game. When I saw that James Silva’s I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1 was only 80 Microsoft [...]



why your social media guru is an asshole & a liar OR how to succeed (or not) with your internet presence

By Giania • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Author’s Note: Some editing may apply to the article below. This article was originally 2 hours worth of unedited vitriol, inspired by the inordinate amount of time it takes me to remove spammers from my follower list on Twitter. (I block because I care about the health of the network.) I would like to [...]



If Peanuts Were Written by Bukowski…

By Giania • Mar 22nd, 2009 • Category: Literature

Hot: It would probably read a lot like this feature over at Progressive Boink. It’s got poems, vignettes in the author’s style of the more well-known Peanuts characters, and original comics done up with dialogue in Bukowski’s style. For more information about Henry Charles Bukowski, there is a list of 100 trivia items about the [...]



Social Media Marketing and “Natural” Product Placement

By AmHm • Feb 12th, 2009 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Perhaps its my intimate exposure to many things “internet marketing,” (I’m an SEO copywriter and, when I feel like bragging, amateur strategist) but lately it seems all I hear about is Social Media Marketing. From articles detailing how Twitter, Facebook and Delicious can help optimize your business or website, to blog-posts scolding SEO’s for [...]