August 2010
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An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
July 2010
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Podcast: Stuff You Should Know: Taxidermy
Stuff You Should Know: How Taxidermy Works on Huffduffer
Josh and Chuck tackle taxidermy, the practice of preserving and mounting dead animal skins for display, in this episode.
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The history of the Jackalope; a brief history of a group of flesh-hunting lunatics called The Rogue Taxidermists; price breakdowns of a bear skin rugs...
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I’ve been listening to an album a day for the last month. Here’s the full list for the month of July.
Betty Davis - Betty Davis
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
The Ramones - Leave Home
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Iggy Pop - New Values
Rollins Band - Do It
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Song of Pain - Daniel Johnston
Chuck Dukowski Sextet - Reverse the...
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Lou Reed on self proclaimed “dean of rock critics”, Robert Christgau:
“Critics…What does Robert Christgau do in bed? You know, is he a toe fucker? Man, anal retentive, A Consumer’s Guide to Rock?!? What a moron…A study by me by Robert Christgau…Nice little box and a B+…Can you imagine working for a fucking year, and you get a B+ from an asshole in The...
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Kodachrome slide film wasn’t just another commercial photographic product. There was something truly special about it. The dyes and emulsions produced an effect comparable to Technicolor motion picture film. It was hyper-real, but only slightly. Kodachrome photos were luminous and warm but not garish; in some inexpressible way, they seemed to capture the sensation of remembering the past,...
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What is the point of exhibiting these pictures? To awaken indignation? To make us feel “bad”; that is, to appall and sadden? To help us mourn? Is looking at such pictures really necessary, given that these horrors lie in a past remote enough to be beyond punishment? Are we the better for seeing these images? Do they actually teach us anything? Don’t they rather just confirm what we already know...
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This here, marks a true event; the night my brother played with Mike Watt. It’s great, and wonderful, and its just about the coolest thing ever— and it made my day.
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Clerk
I was what I would be if I wasn’t a writer: a clerk in a used-bookstore. No other possibility. I worked in eight bookstores in fifteen years, five years during high school and college, then ten years straight after that. Shelving, running registers, re-alphabetizing sections, learning the arcana. I was bitter, intense, typical, believing myself superior to customers who could afford...
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We owe so much to others and acknowledge so little.
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— Henry Miller in a letter to Somerset Maugham dated June 18, 1947. In it Miller conveys his love and appreciation for the author’s work.
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In midnights and daylights
I’ve seen your flesh
In fields of wheat and tall grass
In the fore of azure skies
splayed across carpets of hotel rooms
I’ve seen your body
nude
in sharp glinting focus and out
I have seen every woman naked
On Tumblr
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“God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via iwl)
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JULY 11th: Bella took me to a great new club called CBGB, where we saw a band called the Ramones. These guys could be big—Captain & Tennille big! Mentioned casually to Bella that I wouldn’t mind being in a band, at which point I was immediately invited to join Richard Hell & the Voidoids. In keeping with the “fast and loose” punk ethos, we cut three albums and toured several Midwestern...
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“One day soon, an Anne Geddes baby will be photographed by Terry Richardson.d”
– Rob Delaney (via claytoncubitt)
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Mad people came to visit me — Nazis, anarchists, painters, musicians, fools, geniuses, and bad writers. They all imparted their ideas to me thinking that I would understand. Some nights I would look around and there would be from eight to 14 people sitting about the rug, and I only knew two or three of them. Sometimes I would go into a rage and throw them all out; other times I just forgot it...
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“I always had a very stupid little boy feeling of superiority about Scott — like...”
– Ernest Hemingway discussing fellow author F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to Max Perkins