Browsing archives for December, 2008
Fluff Stuff
31 December 2008 | 0 Comments
I hope you’re all out partying; we only have three more new years before the Mayan apocalypse!
I’m having a wild night of playing Playstation 3 with friends, drinking beers, and occasionally taking a break for the Twilight Zone marathon. All in all, a good start to the year. Hope it starts well for all of [...]
Tagged in new year, New Year's Eve, stuff
Accessories, Indie Retailers
30 December 2008 | 2 Comments
I admit that I have no idea how often a modern, working male would need to wear cufflinks. My guess is “not often”. But wouldn’t you be more likely to wear them if said cufflinks were made of Legos, Monopoly pieces, typewritter keys or Scrabble tiles?
The “Retro Classy” cufflinks from Groglmann are so kitschy cool [...]
Tagged in cufflinks, Groglmann, Lego, Monopoly, retro, Scrabble, Star Wars, Storm Troopers
Indie Retailers, Paper Goods
29 December 2008 | 0 Comments
Snarky Cards pack so much brutal honesty per card they make the folks at Someecards look modest and polite by comparison. Alisa Starr, Snarky’s mastermind, creates the cards using acrylics and watercolors on postcards. The text is added with an Olympia typewriter for a vintage/serial killer vibe, which- added to the simplistic imagery- makes the [...]
Tagged in Alisa Starr, indie cards, indie shopping, Snarky Cards, Someecards
Election10, Politics
28 December 2008 | 0 Comments
In yet another sign that for some folks too much is never enough, Jeb Bush is eyeing a Senate run in 2010. Via Politico:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — the son of one president and the brother of another — has been working the phones since Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) announced earlier this month that [...]
Tagged in Florida senate, Jeb Bush, Senate races
Art, Indie Retailers
27 December 2008 | 0 Comments
I stumbled upon this etsy shop courtesy of a lovely flickr page, and voila, Dilkabear is on the radar. Quirky almost-caricatures of interesting women. Check them out.
monique, 7.7″ x 7.7″ $20
Tagged in dilkabear, indie art
Uncategorized
26 December 2008 | 0 Comments
This is the last Friday Night Fluff piece of 2008. There’s a superstition that whatever you are doing at midnight on New Year’s Eve (other than drinking) is going to be a predominant theme in the new year. For example, if you’re at a party with friends, you’ll be spending a lot of time with [...]
Tagged in Auld Lang Syne, Jimi Hendrix, Kenny G, New Year's Eve, The Poseidon Adventure
Bush Admin, Obama Admin, Politics
26 December 2008 | 0 Comments
Okay, day after Christmas, back at it. Paul Krugman graced us with this in yesterday’s New York Times:
…President-elect Barack Obama, riding a wave of revulsion over what conservatism has wrought, has said that he wants to “make government cool again.”
Before Mr. Obama can make government cool, however, he has to make it good.
True enough, as [...]
Tagged in FDR, government oversight, New Deal, Obama Admin, Paul Krugman
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24 December 2008 | 0 Comments
Today, Christmas Eve, is the 40th anniversary of the taking of this photograph by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders:
So much in that picture. Wonder. Fragility. The need for togetherness. The hope of a better day. The tremendous improbability of this beautiful world. The necessity the better angels of our natures have become. All thoughts appropriate [...]
Tagged in Apollo 8, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Earthrise
Arts, Web Comics
24 December 2008 | 2 Comments
Wordpress has granted me the (increasingly rare) privilege of signing in so I thought I should put a post up. But since I am currently sitting in the lobby of an Emergency Room (spider bite- not mine), I’m going to have to phone it in a bit and post the draft of a comic.
Tagged in Product (Dis)placement, Watchmen, Web Comic
Late Night Work Break, Musical Interlude
23 December 2008 | 0 Comments
What’s Christmas without a little Brian Setzer? Why, it’d hardly be Christmas at all, and that’s the truly odd part about it. Back in the early 80’s, never in my wildest Stray-Cats-pompadour dreams did I think that Setzer would turn into a holiday icon. Yet here he is, in all his greaser glory:
Yep. Now it’s [...]
Tagged in Brian Setzer Orchestra, Christmas music, Jingle Bells
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