Fred Holland Day: Photographer, Aesthete, Trust-Fund Child, Pleasure-Seeker, Eccentric
This last June, after Sebastian Horsley died in Soho at the age of 47 from a heroin overdose, I began thinking about […]
Month: July 2010
Candwich’s Even Darker Side: “Product”
Don’t read this article. You think it’s going to be about Candwich, the “sandwich in a can” that has been ripping up […]
China Miéville: “The Scar” Opened the Top of My Head
I first encountered China Miéville via his stunning third novel, The Scar. What I find amazing about this interview with Miéville about […]
Top 3 Cars of Supercilious Grouchy Old Bastards
Being somewhat in the market for a new car and being somewhat of a guy who is getting (snort!) older, I figured […]
Hidden Cell Phone Towers? Try To Beat This One.
The Los Angeles Times has a photo essay about cell phone towers being cleverly disguised as palm trees. I think the best […]
The Oozing Sublimity of Zuckerberg’s Flop Sweat and Hoodie Removal
I cannot get this out of my head. I had heard about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg breaking out in a huge, visible […]
Hausu: Watch At Your Own Peril
Holy crap. Hausu (1977) is a Japanese film that blog Dangerous Minds calls “a mixtape compiled by a demented Carl Jung–immersive, repellent, […]
Listen & Learn: Radiohead’s Creep by Vega Choir
Radiohead’s “Creep,” performed by the Vega Choir of Sweden, has been burning up the Internet like a match on a gasoline-soaked haystack. […]
Yestermen With Titanium Balls: F. Bert Farquharson at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 1940
What to call these men who, in decades past, did fearsome things for a purpose and did so with utter aplomb? While […]
Realtor or REALTOR®? Either Way, Royal Bullshit
I have long been suspicious of the word Realtor, Realtor®, REALTOR®, or whatever it is. It began years ago when I noticed […]