Tuesday, May 13, 2008

In Memoria

Had to shave the giant chops off today in a crass attempt to sell out to the Mans, and so, in honor of the passing of all things i present:

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Speaking of White Power



Teh Awesome.

McHate


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From the SoCal Crime Map /Mean Streets
The flyers were made to look authentic correspondence from McDonalds, and stated that due to a string of robberies, African American customers are now required to pay an additional fee of $1.50 per transaction. Police were trying to get fingerprints off the fliers to see if they could identify the suspects.


I have to wonder, hate crime or just unfunny political prank?

As the "flyers were made to look authentic," isn't this actually an attack on McDonald's?

The flyers make McDonald's look A) racist or B) ridiculous or C) both, but don't actually say anything at all about African-Americans, save that they are being targetted by a faux racial price profile.

Perhaps this is a failed attempt at irony from someone pissed off about the "string of roberries," said person may even be a "cracker" -

BUT

Making a tasteless joke isn't the same thing as making a racial attack, is it?

And what about free speech issues? Do they not apply to anonymous attempts at LULZ?

Is there something I am missing?

Were the flyers downloaded from WWW.WHITEPOWERPRANKS.NET or somesuch?

Because calling this a Hate Crime, I just don't get.

And if it is one, how soon before The Mans starts hauling in every punk rock band that has a tasteless flyer?

Why, I designed a poster for my buddies' punk band back in my onbnoxious High School days that deployed Nick Utt's famous "Vietnam Napalm" photo with the tagline:

"Everybody Comes Running to See The Incredible Smerphuckers."


Tasteless? Yes.

Racist? No. At least my 17 year old self sure hopes not.

And so Hate Crime?

I say thee nay!

Uh, what was my point again?

Oh yeah - so which is it - "flyers" or "fliers?"

Do They Know It's Nucleotide At All?



What, too much of a reach?

"We Are The BioRad?"

Boom Boom Boom



...looking out my front door...

ah, City Life. It's peaches, I tells ya, peaches!
Imagine tryin ta live without folx blowing up cars in the middle of the night! Haw! You rubes don't ken whut ya mizzin'!

More blurry photos here.

Monday, May 05, 2008

St. Elsenet



And then there are the days when you get hit by a bout of HTMaLgia and spend a little too much time randomly following the dying trail of links and discover sites like this.



Tommy Westphall.

The Idiot God at the Center of the TV Cosmos.

Beware, Yog-Sothoth, beware.

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Ears Peeled for Easter Eggs


As you join the throngs going to see Iron Man this week, keep an ear out for the original iron tune sprinkled liberally throughout...

Thursday, May 01, 2008

GTFOOT!


Someone named Marvin KILGORE owns the FUKANG meteorite?

I just woke up inside the lost collaboration between LRH and PKD...

World's Worst Comics Museum


Visit it HERE.

Extra Credit quiz: how many of these comics do I own?

And no, "the Saga of White Will" ain't one of them...

Monday, April 28, 2008

Thy Divine Image



Orangutan caught spearfishing.

'Course it's only a theory...

Murder, TM



Radar is currently running an article on Bill Geerhart's recent follow-up to his "Billy Letters" of the late '90s.

Contained therein is the latest installment in our ever-growing series "News to ME!":

Serial killers now have their own LOGOS???

I shudder to think at what they mean when discussing 'Branding' these days...

Gaiman's "Doll's House" here we come...

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Diminuitive Defacer Leaves a Need for Decrypto



The Zenkoji Buddhist temple in Nagano Japan, considered a national treasure, was defaced with graffiti after they refused to be a part of the Olympic Torch relay event.

So, probably someone making good on these type of threats:
"Chinese people won't forgive [Japan] if the Japanese do the same things as the Americans and Europeans, such as making distorted reports about the Tibet issue."

Here's the strange part - as the video shows, the temple was defaced with lines and circles, spraypainted at a height of one meter, so no one is quite sure just what it means.

A curse? A hex? A puzzle? A really obnoxious viral?

See for yourself.

Hey Stupid!



Impressive. Now do it when it's not rush hour.

ATTN: Los Angeles Art Fags



Go see this show.

Now watch me pretend to be a journo and rewrite a press release:

Fourteen artistIC LUMINARIES ARE GOING TO USE photography to tell stories, create landscapes, and document crimes that WERE NEVER COMMITTED. A 'PHOTO-FICTIONAL' COMMENT (OR IS IT?) ON THE NATURE OF reality IN AN ERA WHEN mass media exploits people's faith in photography's realism.

It's like wrote it myself. I wish more people would send me Press Releases. I would post more and sound more clever doing it.

Sigh.

But enough about me.

Here's what you REALLY need to know:

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