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The sign outside the "Weinerschnitzel" restaurant brags that it is "The World’s Largest Hotdog Chain." They’re certainly large enough to put an outpost all the way out at the ends of the earth on Braker Lane. I was biking and … Continue reading →

Aside from providing a redundant communications system in the event of nuclear war and distributing porn, the internet is also useful for collecting pictures of strange animals. The heroes of the internet who comb over every ounce of data from … Continue reading →

It’s called the Telectroscope and the story of how it was built and how the system of lenses and mirrors allows you to view straight from London to New York is right here. It brought to mind the 1935 movie … Continue reading →

This 30min movie title: NEIL GAIMAN‘s A Short Film About John Bolton just showed up on Netflix instant viewing. I’d seen the movie before in the video store and I was pretty much shocked by the cover, which depicts a … Continue reading →

In this context if I referred to "Varley," everyone would think I was talking about some writer guy. But there was a period when I lived at Sasona Co-op when Varley referred only to one Mike Varley, a Long Island … Continue reading →

I spent the last few days crunching through the Space Squid slushpile. We seem to get a submission or two every day, so if I let things slide for a few weeks (or a month) then there’s a lot of … Continue reading →

A friend of mine just finished his magnum opus of relationship commentary, a claymation film with an Eraserhead-like worm. I should mention that the blue-clay figure looks exactly like the director. Another friend has started work on a web-based panel-comic … Continue reading →

For the past few months google alerts has returned a high number of hits for the search terms "zombie" and "lapdance." Normally this is rare. But don’t go thinking that everyone is talking about this stupid blog. No, they’re talking … Continue reading →

An airwolf helicopter is on ebay: The description doesn’t mention if it goes mach-one, but apparently the chaingun is available.

I’ve gotten into the habit of carving wooden art objects for my father, roughly on a yearly basis. Last year I experimented with busts. This year I’m going for a more classical theme.