October 2009
37 posts
Things You Should Know About Halloween
The holiday of Halloween began as the ancient festival of Samhain. Samhain was principally a harvest festival but was also a festival of the dead. The festival was begun in the middle ages by the odd pairing of Glenn Danzig and the Boston Celtics. Gaelic and Brythonic legend has it that the punk rocker and the basketball team were out at the pub, getting hammered and singing tawdry folk songs...
Virginia Woolf - A Haunted House →
One of my favorite short stories and one appropriate for the holiday - though by no means a traditional ghost story. This is a haunted house, like one you may visit this holiday, where you have to figure your way through it, though it’s not filled with frightening pitch-black corridors but shimmering poetic passages. This is a haunted house with ghosts but they are peaceful, looking...
Prophetic Costumes for Halloween 2009 →
With the help of a Beetlejuice DVD and a psychic I obtain some costume ideas that will be beyond the cutting edge this Halloween.
Halloween - Dark Sky Magazine →
This is a piece I wrote for Dark Sky Magazine - an online mag that publishes short stories, poems, essays, reviews, conducts interviews with authors and aggregates literary news from around the Web - about both Sonic Youth’s “Halloween” and the cover by Mudhoney.
Things You Should Know About the Automotive...
The German automobile inventor Gottlieb Daimler went into mechanical engineering in 1852 at the age of 18. Though many believe it was always his dream to create small, high speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device, his decision to enter this field was because of horses. Gottlieb Daimler hated horses. He hated their long flowing manes (Daimler went bald prematurely), their...
The Doctor's Office →
What is Alex Trebek Grinning About?
Your wife as a contestant on ‘Jeopardy!’.
Your wife’s anecdote, during the first round ‘Meet the Contestants’ portion of the show, about being so used to tanning topless in her backyard that she did so on a beach in California and was nearly arrested.
Your wife correctly answering ‘The name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of...
What is Pat Sajak Grinning About?
Your selection of ‘R’ when it is clearly on the board already.
Your spin landing on ‘Bankrupt’ after your greedy attempt to win more money on the puzzle ‘W_ITE C_OCOLATE MOUSSE’.
Popsicles!
The hot dog you’re choking on in the seat next to him at the Dodgers game.
The knife he just plunged into your chest.
The poison he placed in your coffee taking...
Atlas Sound: “Kid Klimax”
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The Ouroboros Orchestra
Since our culture is cyclical, when do you think that big band/swing/ska re-revival is going to happen? You know, when acts inspired by the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger and Save Ferris come out in their zoot suits and spats with Skankin’ Pickle buttons, saying,...
The Album Covers of Brian Eno →
desnoise:
(via freqresponse)
e·no·phile
(ē’nə-fīl’) n.
One who appreciates and enjoys wine.
A collector of wine.
One who cannot get enough of non-musician Brian Eno: “Josh saw the link Marc posted about Eno’s album covers and nearly broke his computer mouse from clicking it so hard.”
e’no·phil’i·a (ē’nə-fĭl’ē-ə) n.,...
Remember That Scene
Remember that scene in RoboCop when scientists from the Omni Consumer Products - OCP - try setting RoboCop up with various appliances, placing wagers on which one RoboCop will fall for and at first RoboCop sees the toaster, the microwave and the refrigerator and thinks nothing of them, sticking to his directives and whatnot, but the OCP scientists won’t give up so easy because...
YACHT: “Psychic City (Voodoo City)”
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Things You Should Know About the Milky Way
The Milky Way Galaxy is actually identical to the candy bar of the same name. The planets of our solar system are all a part of the chocolate-malt nougat center. I don’t want to worry you, my fellow Earthlings, but there exists out there in the Universe a being called a Planet Eater. This Planet Eater is the equivalent of a nine year old boy who has just returned home after...
WaFBelieves →
What a Fool Believes is now on Twitter. If you can’t find jokes/weirdness in 140 characters or less, contact (INSERT REP NAME HERE) Brenda at the WaFB Customer Care Center and she’ll relay an anecdote about this one time her grandmother called the police at the supermarket because she thought the coupon for the ice cream sandwiches had been stolen by the cashier. It won’t...
The xx: “Infinity”
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