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Watch this video from Larkin Grimm

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:25:10 -0700

Our music-PR buddy Howard Wuefling forwarded us a link to this crazy video for Larkin Grimm's "Parplar," which came out a couple years ago on the Young God label, run by MIchael Gira—the guy from Swans. The description reads interestingly enough: "It’s a beautiful one, a sandy animated clip created by Rebecca Shoenecker featuring a sleepy/cranky/jealous pyramid, flying cows, playful monkeys, and a Sphinx with a very powerful vagina." Strangely enough, seeing the name Larkin Grimm in print (or digital e-form, as it were) reminded me of a story a friend once told me about a girl she knew at Yale named Larkin, who would always corner her (my friend) and ask her uncomfortably personal questions, probably by some kind of antisocial design.

Everything is Bigger in Texas Except...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:12:31 -0700

brains? Well, that's probably not an entirely fair assessment. But according to a recent University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll, nearly 33 percent of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs once roamed the Earth at the same time.

Oscars are coming, but Valentines first. Cook some Child!

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:13:23 -0700

Oscars are coming, but Valentines first. Cook some Child!

Underground Lobster Lair in Greenpoint

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:49:07 -0700

My friend Ben Sargent (remember him from the article on the Brooklyn Fishing Derby) has been a busy man. This past weekend he started the Underground Lobster Pound in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Long-starved for a good New England lobster roll, Ben started buying fresh lobsters and cooking them in his tiny apartment.

Wisdom From the Dead

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:02:48 -0700

Spent yesterday, or was it the day before? Some kind of lost weekend, drunk on the thought of... pontificating (notice this word come up in the interview down below with David Foster Wallace), whether one writer I really love had just tweeted: Now any other day, who knows what this meant, but it came on the heels of the death of another favorite writer of mine...

RIP J.D. Salinger

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:20:16 -0700

RIP J D Salinger

Stab Vests, Jesus Guns and Eating Human Hearts

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:25:59 -0700

There was a bunch of stuff I wanted to blog about tonight, lots of goings on in the world since I lost a blog earlier this week due to a glitch in our admin system. First, I wanted to write about these "stab vests" that a British company is marketing for this summer's World Cup in South Africa. The company, Protektorvest, said there's a high demand for the vest—which looks kind of like a slimmer bulletproof vest, or perhaps a more fashionable one since you can customize a logo on the front of it—apparently citing the murder figures in South Africa, which are pretty staggering on its face.

For New Yorkers, a fundraising event for Haiti this weekend

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:16:55 -0700

Aid for Haiti (New Yorkers) an event this weekend

Paul Chan in No Particular Order

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:36:20 -0700

Paul Chan in No Particular Order

Sex Dungeon for Sale! Coloring Contest

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:08:36 -0700

Patrick Wensink, the author of the short story collection Sex Dungeon for Sale! is having an interesting contest over on his site. It's a coloring contest featuring scenes from stories in his book, including "Jesus Toast," "My Son Thinks He's French," "Chicken Soup for the Kidnapper's Soul.

Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:49:20 -0700

Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records

NADA and more to come from Miami

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:58:18 -0700

NADA and more to come from Miami

The End of The Aughts (back to) The Beginning of the Aughts

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:39:07 -0700

The Beginning of the Aughts, The End of The Aughts (director's cut)

Performa's Dénoument

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:26:23 -0700

Performa's Denoument

OK, Okay, O.K.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:21:30 -0700

OK, Okay, O.K.

Nabokov's Unfinished Novel Available (as Vlad rolls in his grave)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:43:20 -0700

In the latest Bookforum there's an article about the resurrected last novel of Vladamir Nabokov, a book he meant never to be published, if he died before finishing it, that is. But of course his wish goes against the wishes of his fans, and alas we now have it in our possession. I wonder, with modern technology, yikes, what all stuff writers really never meant to have published will be unearthed from their quickly typed emails, IM chats, scrap digital thoughts, credit card receipts and so on.

The Hoax is Back

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:50:29 -0700

I have to tell you, part of the reason I’ve largely, maybe stupidly, avoided the journalism game myself since my j-school days (opting to edit instead) is that, well, I often just can’t help but joke when writing about the news. I don’t know what it is. Some say there’s something to the generation being cursed ironically, or ironically cursed...

Credit Card Reform? Read the Fine Print.

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:55:43 -0700

Credit Card Reform? Read the Fine Print.

Bye Brendan Mullen, Fanzine Owes You, In Memoriam

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:42:35 -0700

Bye Brendan Mullen, Fanzine Owes You One, In Memoriam

Fanzine Speaks! Kaya Oakes and Indie Everything

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:43:50 -0700

Hey special thanks to Kaya Oakes for a great time last Sunday at Skylight Books and thanks to everyone who was able to make it there. The show was kicked off by a lively, charismatic performance by Old Lumps. Charlene Yi, in the center is a musician and comedian who appears in Knocked Up, and was full of quips and microphone duct-taping throughout the show.

Taking Ted’s Head out for Batting Practice

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:38:33 -0700

Taking Ted’s Head out for Batting Practice

A Move, A New Start: Once in a Lifetime

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:27:42 -0700

A Move, A New Start: Once in a Lifetime

The Feelies Reissues

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:42:27 -0700

I was just talking earlier this month to Fanzine writer Pete Hausler about Hoboken and Maxwell's club. He told me his first show ever was The Feelies at Maxwell's, back on 4th of July in 1985, as far as he can remember. Bar/None just re-released their two classic records: 1980's Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth (1986).

Back to School for the Bobbies: Brian Jones Revisited

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:54:19 -0700

Back to School for the Bobies: Brian Jones Revisited

The Heat is On

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:41:27 -0700

The Heat is On

Sean Hannity Wheels out the Sleeping Giant

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:15:33 -0700

Sean Hannity Wheels out the Sleeping Giant

'Exercise Won't Make You Thin' Time says

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:21:49 -0700

'Exercise Won't Make You Thin' Time says

"When Novelists Sober Up"

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:32:24 -0700

Good read from Intelligent Life Magazine, an offshoot of The Economist. Like the comment by Hemingway - "he can tell when (Faulkner) he gets tired and does it on corn." And I agree with the last line of the piece, stay away from the recovery books, writing them anyway, but the line before it, well, it won't make you any better, but in the South, even if sober it's hard to stay away from the bars, just too much good stuff there (sometimes that is.

Clinton Works The Magic

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:51:52 -0700

And the journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are free. Well, technically they're pardoned, but if all cartoon depictions of Bill Clinton's prowess are true (i.e.

Happy National Friendship Day

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:59:15 -0700

It's National Friendship Day

What a motive - Kid Steals Car to Avoid Church

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:25:11 -0700

What a motive - Kid Steals Car to Avoid Church

Blue Dye Leaves Rats Unparalyzed

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:02:44 -0700

Blue Dye Leaves Rats Unparalyzed

Derek McCormack and Kevin Killian reading at City Lights

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:51:14 -0700

Derek McCormack and Kevin Killian at City Lights, SF

Zak Smith Super(porn)star

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:28:01 -0700

Alyssa Bianca-Pavley went to a ZaK Smith reading the other night and came back with the dirt

Understanding Comics

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:09:30 -0700

There has been a lot of hand-wringing among critics that high-quality journalism will be lost as news makes it's transition onto the internet but this obscures an even more important question about web journalism: Where's the comics page? Not to worry, check out these frame by frame re-enactments of Mary Worth in stark expressionist film making style. Last November, when Machine Project art gallery took over the Los Angeles Country Art Museum one of the highlights was Lasagna Cat's live re-creations of Garfield comic strips using elaborate costumes and weighty, meticulously constructed props of cupcakes and cat beds.

Summer of Exits continues...

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:08:43 -0700

The march of death goes on and on and on now with Robert McNamara passing at age 93. McNamara was the defense secretary during John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.

The Infamous Glitter Glove

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:15:13 -0700

The Glitter Glove by Danny Jock

Michael Jackson Dead at 50

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:15:49 -0700

Michael Jackson died of a heart attack

Iran - How You Can Help

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:04:04 -0700

Anonymous Iran, show your support

Oh Calvin! A Belmont Postmortem

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:41:47 -0700

Yeah the Gods were right. Hubris got the best of Borel in the 2009 Belmont.

R.I.P. David Carradine—Goodnight Sweet Autoerotic Prince

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:11:59 -0700

If you caught the early AP reports of David Carradine's death, you may have gotten a different mental image of the nemesis of Kill Bill's demise. The first reports had Carradine found "hanging from his neck and genitals." Only later, when the story started to spread through the Internet, the story was quickly changed to "hanging from his neck and body.

The New NHL—Sending a Message

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:37:55 -0700

or, Me First at the Expense of Everyone Else

Now at the Whitney: Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973

Fri, 29 May 2009 23:46:48 -0700

There is a whole lot of awesome currently crammed into the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973” is third in a series of exhibitions that focuses on the photography collection amassed by the Whitney. This show, though tiny, is comprised of incredibly compelling conceptual photographs by artists such as Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Adrian Piper, and Mel Bochner, to name only a few.

Fanzine's Web Saviors

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:53:35 -0700

Wanna give some love back to our sometime savior, Karsten Krejcarek, one of the best artists working these days, and others, love you all.

Heller's Fanzine piece referenced in Freakonomics

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:33:43 -0700

Roids keep Rumbling - Heller' Fanzine piece 'Roid Rage' in The New York Times excellent Freakonomics column

Ed Park on Comic Novels

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:11:35 -0700

Ed Park on Comic Novels

The Rumpus - Whoah

Fri, 22 May 2009 23:24:59 -0700

The Rumpus and Fanzine just discovered each other, Whoah!

Jordan Heller's 'Roid Rave' story cited in Vanity Fair

Wed, 13 May 2009 01:04:08 -0700

About a month ago Jordan Heller wrote a controversial story for Fanzine showing the other side of the steroids debate - that they can actually have wonderful benefits for the right candidates when used properly - Vanity Fair cited his article recently in a steroid piece of their own. Michael Hogan asks should baseball just go ahead and allow steroids in America's hallowed game that's been made much less holy (that is - besides the pincushions players have made of their bodies) the past few decades?

Off For a Day or 2 For Some Improvements, So...read UP

Fri, 08 May 2009 23:44:21 -0700

Enjoy the weekend, take the dog to the park, and catch up on some articles in the Fanzine archive. Expect a new blog, easier ways to share articles from Fanzine to some of your favorite sites like Facebook, Digg, Reddit, etc, etc on Monday. So read some of the old Talk Shows in the columns sections for instance.

Bombs Away Borel at 50:1: The Derby Post Mortum

Sun, 03 May 2009 18:59:47 -0700

"It's all in the hands!", not sure what was better, the race or Borel after. If you read Pete Hausler's preview before the Derby, you know he was dead right on betting wild on this one, though how could he know his picks were a tad conservative?

Kinke Kooi

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:02:42 -0700

Note: we meant to get something done on this show before it goes down, but alas it's going down today. Anyway, if you are out and about tonight, hop into the Hudson's always challenging, most often delightful Feature Inc. gallery across from the New Museum on Bowery in NYC.

hockey playoffs to ensure crosby vs. ovechkin in 2009

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:18:41 -0700

Man, I gotta throw out some love to The Onion. With Casey out in LA, I've been catching up on some playoff hockey, and then today I saw this from America's Finest News Source. From their early season sports bit "Flyers Defensemen Ceremonially Checks Sarah Palin into Boards" [one might recall my blog post last year about Sarah Palin ceremonially dropping the first puck at the Flyers home opener] to the headline "Gary Bettman: I Have Never Watched an Entire NHL Game," The Onion's sports writers have always been spot on and timely.

Coachella On

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:22:37 -0700

Well even though it's––what?––his 3rd Coachella now? and Coachella has an unspoken policy of always having different bands, I have to say Morrissey was the best last night.

Off to Coachella

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:44:12 -0700

To see this band (Throbbing Gristle, with a much changed Genesis P-Orridge) among others. Other rarities are the ever elusive Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine, Paul McCartney (rare for me, never seen a Beatle live), etc. Too many to mention, more soon.

Lindsay Lohan on EHarmony

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:49:29 -0700

Let's give Lindsay some more Google clicks (I'm sure she is getting a million today). As she says here in her new Eharmony profile, she never loses any G-clicks, only her underwear sometimes. I have to say I've always loved Lindsay, and even better when she started getting into trouble.

Happy Easter

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:26:35 -0700

And no white shoes after labor day! Here's a bit from John Waters from an old New York Post article on Easter: "John Waters considers those big life-size Easter bunnies 'pitiful' because 'They're not true. Even babies know they're fakes and hate their parents for it, and as a result the kids grow up and take heroin.

Dereck McCormack/ Guy Maddin Pt. 1 (& bunch 'o new stuff coming soon)

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:44:55 -0700

For the second week in a row, am planning to attend another presentation and documentary about the leading figures in underground cinema at Whitespace gallery here in Atlanta. Last week Brad Lapin did a thorough and spirited focus on Jack Smith, and screened Mary Jordan’s documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis. This week Lapin is back to talk about the work of Guy Maddin.

Glenn Beck Goes (Even More) Bonkers

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:22:53 -0700

I don't even know what day Colbert did this (that's some newsiness for you huh? guess I was too lazy or either too caught up in other news, like the G20 etc; did this air two days ago?) Anyway it's still funny.

That Old Newspaper Nervousness Again

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:24:39 -0700

The writing is on the wall, or rather on the web it could be said. Newspapers are getting thinner and more scarce, not what they used to be certainly, but are they a lost medium? Have we fallen out of favor with ink smudges and cloak and dagger disguises?

CONSPIRACY!

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:53:44 -0700

CONSPIRACY! More ominous words are rarely uttered in the English language! I call conspiracy!

Ronald Tavel (R.I.P.)

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:54:53 -0700

From the Screen Tests to Chelsea Girls and on, Ronald Tavel was best known as Andy Warhol's screenwriter. Above is an interview from 2007 with Tavel, but flip around Youtube and rewatch some of the old Warhol flicks. Speaking of Warhol's movies, we are headed out tonight to see a Jack Smith documentary called Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (a part of a three week series of underground film, the first of which, which includes the Smith documentary, is titled "Is My Brain a Germ or Disease: The Underground 60s" curated by Brad Lapin) at Whitespace Gallery here in Atlanta.

Cooler Heads Prevail: Time for a new Blaine Act

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:10:25 -0700

There have been some awful teetotaler leaders, i.e. Hitler (okay minus all the meth he was getting injected towards the end there), Osama Bin Laden (is he?

Now for the Dogs

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:58:41 -0700

Yet more Eye Candy....What? you thought I was gonna blog today about Tim Geithner?

Cat's in the Bag

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:13:12 -0700

Just another day of eye candy, but this cat is talented. The video above takes some patience to watch, a bit like an Antonioni flick. If you want more action check this one.

Skydiving to Watch the Shuttle Launch

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:01:24 -0700

Going up, going down, this is pretty badass. In related visual badassness, someone just shared Boards of Canada's first video Dayvan Cowboy by Dir. Melissa Olson.

Ony For the Articles? Right. Playboy's Archive Online

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:20:52 -0700

When I was a young lad1, I had a neighbor friend who's dad had every Playboy that ever existed (thus far) in his attic. Needless to say I didn't get much reading done then, but there is some great reading to be seen, I mean read, here in this exhaustively scanned archive (is that what the Playboy reality show interns have been busy with behind the scenes?).

Missing Morrissey Tonight or The Smiths in General, Thom Yorke has a solution

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:43:54 -0700

So you'll likely miss Morrissey tonight. Getting a ticket for Moz is like winning the lottery sometimes. But was just thinking, you know we might never see the Morrissey and Marr reunion everyone hopes for (if it ever happens for a full on tour, they'll make more money than The Who, Led Zepplin, the Pixies and a few other reuniters combined).

Forgot to blog yesterday, so wrapped up in Twatting

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:55:17 -0700

...to use the the term Stephen Colbert prefers. If you want to follow this editor's twats - I meen tweets on Twitter, I'm doing it @ caseyfanzine.

50 Reasons Your First Book Won't Get Published

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:05:06 -0700

From Bookgasm, here are 50 reasons your first book might not get published. Which is kind of, what, funny? sad?

Ben Bernanke on 60 minutes

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:24:13 -0700

This is one of those interviews that shouldn't be missed, so if you did, here's a reminder. Whether you are calling for Ben Bernanke to stand for treason charges for the Federal Reserve's expenditure of roughly a trillion dollars so far as one group on facebook is (others are calling for AIG bonus takers to comment seppuku), or whether you actually believe the Fed's actions will begin to bring us out of this recession before year's end, as he purports it may, watch the Ben Bernanke interview on 60 minutes. The Fed concludes a two day meeting today that will likely leave interest rates unchanged (they can't go much lower).

Let's Wrestle

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:26:28 -0700

Saw a fun, danceable band here last night at the Earl. 'Let's Wrestle' is the name, from "London town" as they announced the start of the set. A nice mix of old school jangle rock a la The Wedding Present or R.

Obama on AIG and Small Business Loans

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:57:43 -0700

No editorial here, except that it was the collapse of AIG that really accellerated the entire stock market fall this past year. And small businesses are suffereing right now from a lack of liquidity, since no one is lending, so the second part of his speech is certainly of importance for say a company like Fanzine, that we be able to take a loan when we need it. Good speech but the ire over the AIG bonuses seems a bit of posthumous spitting in the wind (by the way what is that lozenge Obama is enjoying there?

Author James Purdy Has Died

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:50:23 -0700

Author James Purdy Has Died

Jon Stewart vs Jim Cramer Live! (finally)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:49:06 -0700

Jon Stewart vs Jim Cramer live! (finally)

Have a Whack at Bernie Madoff Balls

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:24:25 -0700

Bernie Madoff plead gulity today on all charges of his Ponzi scheme that cost investors billions. A federal judge accepted his pleas and he was sent immediatly to jail (no passing "Go") to await trial. While watching on Bloomberg, awaiting word, I saw another ambitious capitalist being interviewed outside the New York courthouse.

David Foster Wallace Lives On

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:37:27 -0700

David Foster Wallace Lives On

The Rest of The Story: Paul Harvey dead at 90

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:28:21 -0700

The Rest of The Story: Paul Harvey dead at 90

Elizabeth Searle on the Harding/Kerrington attack anniversary

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:22:18 -0700

Yesterday was the anniversary of the infamous Tony Harding attack on Nancy Kerrington that occured during a practice session for the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Josh Cohen on HTML Giant

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:32:14 -0700

Okay so no posts lately as I've been trying to get my head around this economic collapse and since there's absolutley too much to say right now on that topic, am holding off, but besides reading daily about one or another sordid character making off with the loot have been reading David Denby's American Sucker about the dot com market collapse he got involved in, prompted after reading Denby's Snark which came out this month...more on both of those soon I hope. Denby's somebody I never thought I'd ever write an essay about, so it's a compelling thought, and there are some good threads running in his 3 books now, taken together...

Wanna Talk About The Real Junk?

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:04:55 -0700

Lux Interior dead at 60.

Seriously Messed Up

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:15:42 -0700

I missed my free grand slam breakfast. I know I said I was gonna be serious about this blog from here on out. But this is serious.

For a Change

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:31:36 -0700

For a Change

Dinner's Ready

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:03:45 -0700

Try this out... A friend just sent me this from another friends' blog. You can just make up your own script for this cartoon.

Ron Asheton Found Dead

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:35:09 -0700

Ok so I was trying to find a good video clip of Ron Asheton, guitarist of The Stooges, who was found dead today, Tuesday, January 6th. He was 60, and apparently died of natural cuases. All I kept finding though were old Stooges videos with Asheton in Iggy's shadow pumping away, grinding away the riffs of "I Wanna Be Your Dog", or "T.

Our New Mascot

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:19:59 -0700

Our New Mascot

Nevermind the Shopocalypse

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:44:04 -0700

Here's preacher farts! Behold, then read on...No, but seriously, I was trying to ponder the real meaning of Christmas this morning, so I watched a movie called What Would Jesus Buy, which is about this guy Reverend Billy's crusade to get people to think about what they purchase, epecially during the holidays, and where it all comes from, and of course everything not made in America comes from Asian sweat shops according to Billy, and so Billy goes out and gets people’s attention by dressing up in a white suit and touring the country on a bus with a full hallelujah choir and stops in Walmarts and other corporate retail places and tells people to stop shopping or else!

Dennis Cooper & Gisèle Vienne on Bookworm

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:36:46 -0700

KCRW's Michael Silverblatt interviews Dennis Cooper, author of many books including The Weaklings published by our own Fanzine Press, along with director Gisèle Vienne on the show Bookworm. Vienne and Cooper for the past three years have been collaborating on a series of plays, the most recent of which, Jerk, opened this week in Paris. You can listen or download the podcast here.

Pictures of Bettie

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:15:04 -0700

There is something so soothing about that chorus in The Who's "Pictures of Lily" which captures almost-perfectly that post-orgasmic wash of calm and contentment. Bettie Page was way before my time, but the pinup girl with those archetypical black hair and sharply cut bangs has, I think, a place as a "Pictures of Bettie" kind of role. She was a sex icon who transcended time and space; for whom the terms "coquettish," "minx," "vixen," and "seething sexuality" were practically invented.

Just Another Ponzi Scheme

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:47:49 -0700

Just Another Pozi Scheme

Gators Roll Back Tide

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:05:55 -0700

It's looking like two years in a row for Tebow and Meyer...but all isn't over yet. Yesterday was only the SEC championship, not the NCAA championship game, but it might as well have been.

Rogert Ebert Wants To Throw Something

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:58:11 -0700

...against a wall! And well I have to admit my last Vikernes tidbit was probably just what he was complaining about, but hey that's indie gossip...

Varg Vikernes on Twitter

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:44:05 -0700

Hey folks, in case you were wondering where Varg Vikernes is, you know at any given moment? in a Twitter kind of way? Well now you can!

Fearless Freaks of Football

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:14:37 -0700

Fearless Freaks of Football

Obama Wins!

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:39:30 -0700

CNN calls it at 11:03pm. Obama with 297 electoral votes, McCain with 135. No chance for McCain.

It's 4:20 so...

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:19:50 -0700

...if you haven't voted by now, well...get out there.

Report Voting Problems

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:56:09 -0700

This election is seeing record numbers of voters, with reports at some stations of lines of more than 8 hours in early voting. If you experience a problem being able to vote you should report it. The Huffington Post has a page dedicated to news on voting problems and information on how to report such problems if they occur in your area.

Palin Reaches out to the French

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:21:32 -0700

...I mean the Canadians. Errr....

Anticipation, Is It Killing You?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:53:56 -0700

Less than a week to go, and a lot of people I have talked to have already voted in the election, by early or absentee ballots. If you are in the same boat having "Beat the Clock", what do you in the meantime if you no longer care what nastiy things might come out in the remainder? Well you can always watch old Sparks videos (see above)!

Reading Is Fundamental

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:41:24 -0700

You may have seen this before...but keep watching.

Zeppelins Back

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:46:35 -0700

In case you read the title quickly, there was no apostrophe there. So no it's not another Page/Plant reunion, and even though the only other two Zeppelin airships in the world are in Germany and Japan, again no we haven't been transported to the 1930s. But Zeppelins are back in the skies over America for the first time in 70 some odd years.

The Curse of Sarah Palin

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:17:14 -0700

It's not what you think!

Thanks a lot, John!

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:42:03 -0700

Joe the Unlicensed Plumber

The Final Debate

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:27:55 -0700

The Final Debate

Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:21:29 -0700

Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate

Almost Election Game Time: Who’s Got The Ball?

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:40:43 -0700

Almost Election Game Time: Who’s Got The Ball?

Larry Flynt Makes First Palin Porn Movie

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:39:29 -0700

Larry Flynt Makes First Palin Porn Movie

Paul Newman RIP

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:08:46 -0700

With great regret I am reporting the death of the great Paul Newman. As one of the best and recognizable actors in America, as well as a maker of fine snacks, pasta sauces, and salad dressings, Newman meant a great deal to me, not only for his performances as Reggie Dunlop in Slap Shot (see above image and opening sequence which foreshadows the film as the best sports movie of all time, next to the original Bad News Bears), Luke in Cool Hand Luke (the banjo song, the 50 hardboiled eggs, the escapes, J.D.

1st Obama and McCain debate in its entirety

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:12:02 -0700

1st Obama and McCain debate in its entirety

David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:27:02 -0700

We are saddened to learn the news of David Foster Wallace's death. It's been reported that he committed suicide on Friday by hanging himself. While we gather ourselves for what to say about him, we just wanted to say our thoughts are with his family and all that knew him or were touched by his incredible gift of writing.

No Mini Black Hole...But

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:52:56 -0700

Step right up folks, lets give the particles a little push, and there, off they go, running like two subatomic lemmings fast as they can till they smash one another to bits. It was a gamble, would we learn the secrets of the big bang? or...

McCain Giving to Obama Campaign

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:19:22 -0700

McCain giving to Obama Campaign

Re: Jesus Christ Ski

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:46:53 -0700

Re: Jesus Christ Ski

The Sarah Palin Surprise?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:41:24 -0700

The Sarah Palin Surprise?

Olympic Reflections: Constantina Tomescu

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:51:35 -0700

Olympic Reflections: Constantina Tomescu

Double negative leads to proof prositive

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:07:28 -0700

Hasbro is changing the names of the characters in Clue. Is nothing sacred?

Grand Old Candidate

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:01:58 -0700

Grand Old Candidate

Cloak of Invisibility... Revealed!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:47:27 -0700

Long the envy by the likes of man, the cloak of invisibility, a technology once only possessed by Predator, Federation Starships, and Frodo Baggins, is one step closer to reality.

Have you changed your password lately?

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:55:22 -0700

It might not matter if your IT department is run by a guy like Terry Childs, aka Maggot617, the network administrator accused of blocking access—for anyone but himself, for days—to a San Francisco government system "that controls data for its police, courts, jails, payroll and health service.

Did we kill Isaac Hayes?

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:25:35 -0700

Associated Press is pronouncing him dead at 65. By coincidence, last night I happened to watched Escape from New York for the like thousandth time but for what was also the first time in a long time, and there he was as always as The Duke of New York. Did Fanzine jinx him?

Bernie Mac Dead at 50

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:41:55 -0700

Who will replace him in Ocean's Fourteen?

Dodie Bellamy on Tariq Alvi

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:25:19 -0700

Dodie Bellamy on Tariq Alvi

Free Coke Anyone? Have One (Without The Smile)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:53:18 -0700

Free Coke Anyone? Have One (Without The Smile)

The race isn't over yet and neither is the Tour de France's doping problem

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:56:02 -0700

The Saunier Duval-Scott team dropped out of the Tour de France today, after Ricardo Ricco—one of its riders, who had already won two stages and was currently in ninth place overall—tested positive for what the New York Times describes as a "new generation variant of the blood-boasting drug [r-]Epo." For an explanation of why this is like so totally not a surprise, see Benjamin Strong's piece from last July on Tour legend Greg LeMond and the rampant abuse of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling's most prestigious event.

Nadal/Fed Notes

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:50:11 -0700

Back From the Grave: Sam Israel

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:38:31 -0700

"Suicide is painless." Ah those old die hard M*A*S*H* Fans...(T Cooper...

Clay Felker - Editing Legend - Dead at 82

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:30:36 -0700

Clay Felker - Editing Legend - Dead at 82

The Groggy Biz News: Bill Gates Last Day

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:24:23 -0700

Bill Gates Last Day

Spiders on Drugs

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:07:37 -0700

Spiders on Drugs

Christian Don't

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:12:25 -0700

I know I swore I wouldn't be fooled again after getting shammed at that Sham 69 show like six months back, but I did, and I felt even more dumb because I wrote a listing up for the Christian Death show that happened last night at the Knitting Factory. In case you missed it, here it is again in all its embarrassing totality:After nearly 20 years of really confusing iterations, it can be, mostly, settled that this is the closest to the original Christian Death that Christian Death is going to get, unless Rozz Williams somehow lifts himself from his self-imposed grave. Which he is not, unfortunately for all his legion of goth-punk followers, fans of the great album Only Theater of Pain, and other early Christian Death recordings before all the Confusion of Pain started with Rozz and Valor Kand, who owns the legal rights to the band name Christian Death.

Cinephiles rejoice

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:09:54 -0700

The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY has launched Moving Image Source, a handsome new site for top-notch film criticism and scholarship. Edited by the incomparable Dennis Lim—former film editor at the Village Voice—the site already features a typically firebrand piece from Michael Atkinson on director Werner Herzog, as well as a look at forgotten 1960s auteur William Klein by the legendary Jonathan Rosenbaum.

The Groggy Punk Rock News

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:28:18 -0700

The Groggy Punk Rock News

Wolf Blitzer has done it again!

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:57:53 -0700

Wolf Blitzer said it, so...

Smells Like a Publicity Stunt

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:16:55 -0700

Smells Like a Publicity Stunt

The End of the Line

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:40:20 -0700

With Clinton virtually finished, who will take the blame for another Democrat loss this year?

Flying Cranes

Sat, 31 May 2008 20:18:41 -0700

Yes We Have A New Design

Wed, 28 May 2008 15:11:28 -0700

Yes we have a new design...

Get In Shape With Wii Fit (or Just Make Bread)

Mon, 26 May 2008 18:30:37 -0700

Get In Shape With Wii Fit (or Just Make Bread)

AHA! The Veep slot..

Fri, 23 May 2008 15:17:12 -0700

AHA! The Veep slot so that's what all this in house mudlsinging was about for months?

Oil reaches 135, New Energy Bill

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:23:24 -0700

Crude oil again reached a record level yesterday trading at around 135 dollars a barrel, sending most stocks on the NYSE stocks plummeting. Meanwhile congress has finally started getting a bit more serious about alternative energies with a new bill that includes tax incentives for wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. Finally...

Warren Buffet Backs Obama

Tue, 20 May 2008 20:30:20 -0700

The richest man in the world is backing Obama...read here from the lips of the so called "oracle from Omaha" himself. And if this is soothsaying, then it doesn't seem to bode well the conservative argument for McCain.