Printer cartridge instructions from Asia are always a hilarious find. This came out of an ink package at work. It’s hard to believe a technical writer somewhere in the world was actually paid to write this. Oh, to be a college graduate during the Internet boom of the ’90s. I could have been retired by [...]

• Um, why wasn’t I alerted to this sooner? It seems that my future ex-wife, Gail Simmons, was on the CBS morning news show a few weeks ago teaching housewives across America how to cook on a budget. The segment, “Super Healthy Meal on a Budget,” is still available on the CBS News website for [...]

To my dear American readers: I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday. To everyone else across the globe who reads this blog: consider yesterday’s no update a product of American greed and selfishness. I was too busy cooking and then consume mass quantities of food.
December is rapidly approaching, which means I get to re-write my [...]

I’m trying, I’m really trying to be a more well-rounded person. This includes things like going to the theater with my girlfriend on a Wednesday night instead of getting drunk at local Mexican restaurants and stumbling home with a belly full of tequila and free (read: foul) tacos. One of her favorite plays is winding [...]

I love Stars Of The Lid. Do you know who else loved Stars of the Lid? John Peel. “It’s very very quiet indeed. You may very well think there’s something wrong with your radio.” The following — a beautiful live performance — captures the duo of Adam Wiltzie and Brian McBride building their minimalist drones [...]

Like a mother bringing her newborn to her breast, like an elderly farmer branding his cattle, like a misplaced love note that could have moved one to tears, none of these promises will be kept, and all of these images will fade. Internal forces burrow deeper, caustic statements exhaled as breaths of fire, demented faces [...]

It’s LOST night. I can’t be bothered to write a proper introduction.
RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all [...]