May 16, 2008
Armor on the brain lately: The Telmarine king’s armor was about the best thing in Prince Caspian, help which was otherwise a dull roar of a film. Gorgeous, view filigree’d stuff. … and … Grant Williams, The Incredible Shrinking Man stabs an un-armored tarantula (which poses as a giant killer spider) and lives to explore […]
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May 15, 2008
I’m bench-testing this theory: Everything on the Internet – every single human endeavor online – can be mapped against one or more of the seven deadly sins. Too simplistic? Maybe not. Just consider the primary sins that we ever-so-weak mortals commit by running, pharmacy populating or using services like these: Gaming? – Anger. Celebrity news? […]
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May 12, 2008
In the realm of burned-out rave gear trends, more about the blinky LED pendant burns on – loud and frenetic as an 8-year-old on his fourth bowl of Cap’n Crunch. In fact, for sale it’s always as perpetually in style as the good Cap’n himself. Squeeze this complex polyhedron in the right place and it […]
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May 8, 2008
The lickety-split digitization of all human commerce runs into a brick wall when it comes to sending physical messages. Until mass production sufficiently cuts the cost of 3-D printing and, viagra thus, the 3-D fax, humans must carry hand-made documents and machine-made objects from one place to another. To subsidize the cost of the trucks, […]
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May 7, 2008
Somewhere, no rx visit in some bizarro alternate reality, capsule this thing is funny. Wind it up and a little clockwork mechanism delivers a nasty, vibrating buzz when the button is pressed. Slip the ring onto your finger and the gadget into your palm, and shake hands with an unsuspecting dupe to press the button. […]
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May 6, 2008
A mix of no-nonsense design and obsolescence incarnate, symptoms this is a perfectly made object lesson in hubris: The 3.5-inch floppy was designed to last for decades – and outstripped within a mere few years by bigger, page faster, even-more-durable flash memory. What are they good for now? Coasters. Table-levelers. Impromptu office Frisbees. And speculations […]
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May 4, 2008
It folds out from a ripstop nylon pouch the size of a cigar case. Its fiberglass ribs hold it together in 30 mph winds. It’s barely 8 inches long fully assembled. It’s a Finger Kite! Our endless list of household projects marches forward because of my wife, buy information pills the movie producer. This week’s […]
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April 28, 2008
Keith Hunter left us almost nine months ago. I’ve been waiting to burn this bundle of sage for him – perhaps on the anniversary of his passing, purchase perhaps when his widow, information pills our dear friend, more about decides it’s time. The lore around sage is thick and changeable: It stems from the rites […]
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April 26, 2008
It figures that a freakishly shaped girl doll – one of the greatest, ailment most successful toys of all time – would have such cute props. One day, cheap the endless toy-surf that washes through this house coughed up this itty-bitty soda-fountain treat, doctor and I had to ask my 6-year-old daughter what it was. […]
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April 24, 2008
I harbor a deep, here advice fetishy lust for “urban vinyl” figurines that is – as I’ve explained, side effects symptoms rarely consummated. When I do indulge, find it’s always for something less than 10 bucks, and always for something small and really extraordinarily detailed. I could not begin to tell you which one of […]
April 8, 2008
My son and I are running parallel these days on the scales of work and hope. He really needs to win this Lego contest. Design your own Mars Mission kit, treatment write something about it, ailment win the sweepstakes. He’s put *days* into typing a 400 word essay and taking photos of his creation, order […]
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April 1, 2008
Vinny and I went fishing once. My best buddy since 6th grade A/V duty, viagra buy my (then) future best man. My good friend. Out in his scruffy little 18-foot runabout with the asthmatic Evinrude – or was it a Yamaha – in Long Island Sound. We set out from New London mid-morning, fortified with […]
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March 29, 2008
I think I must be magnetic. I yearn for metal. I gather it to me, cheap carry it around. Half my keyring actually functions. The other half is clogged with crap that won’t fit in my pocket genteelly, viagra order but weighs heavy in pocket and hand, information pills delighting my fingertips. This handsome chunk […]
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March 26, 2008
“Until you have kids, remedy you’ll never understand.” That’s what my fuckup-addict high school classmate and ex-best-friend once said (after he accidentally fathered his second child by a woman he didn’t love, drug after he burned every last bridge but one between us. But before he ended his pain one dark night by steering himself […]
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March 25, 2008
Mosquitos the size of hummingbirds. Mosquitos the size of skillets. Mosquitos the size of fuckin’ weimaraners. Hyperbole always fails when you need to get your friends to understand just how buggy your weekend was. You show them welts, clinic you groan about the itch. You make up stories about the size of the bloodsuckers. But […]
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March 24, 2008
Money is like weather: It shapes the tides on which ride our dreams and lives, this site rx yet we often ignore its true nature. “Crap, it’s raining” is to “Crap, I’m poor” as our planet’s ecosystem is to the new $5 bill: Until you stop focusing on what it’s worth, you miss the complex […]
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March 20, 2008
When it comes to urban vinyl, check I’m a dry drunk. I walk through Munky King or KidRobot and drool. I never buy anything in the $125.00 range, nor even the $9.00 range, never pick anything up to hold it or ask to see something in the case. I shuffle around the shop, hands shoved […]
March 14, 2008
Sometimes a heavy little object is so pure it cannot be parsed from its origins. Analyzing Stan Lee and Jack Kirby‘s emerald-muscled Mr. Hyde is as pointless and masturbatory an exercise as trying to glean God’s “actual” intentions from line-by-line interpretations of the Bible. Text overpowers context. Some things just are.
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March 13, 2008
Sometimes a heavy little object is so pure it cannot be parsed from its origins. Analyzing Stan Lee and Jack Kirby‘s emerald-muscled Mr. Hyde is as pointless and masturbatory an exercise as trying to glean God’s “actual” intentions from line-by-line interpretations of the Bible. Text overpowers context. Some things just are.
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March 12, 2008
This quarter may or may not be involved in a death. This quarter may or may not be worth $2.00. This quarter may or may not be worthless. This quarter was minted in Denver near the end of a 32-year run of silver quarters, information pills and is barely worth the silver it contains …
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March 9, 2008
I found a little knob of dried mud clinging to a rake today while cleaning the garage.I pulled it off and found these two time travelers, abortion forever locked in their coccoons, waiting to be born as wasps. You can see the larvae through the membrane – still as stones and doomed to a future […]
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March 2, 2008
I fell in love with Drones 1, and 2 and 3 as a geeky 11-year-old science-fiction junkie. Weaned on Lost in Space, search Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Thunderbirds, I also grew up as a faculty brat on a college campus awash in Earth Shoes, granola and hippie-earth-love. When Silent Running came out, […]
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March 1, 2008
Before I say much about this HLO, about it buy more about a hearty shout-out to BarCampLA-5 (hey, all!) where we just kicked off with self-tagging introductions by 200+ coders, artists, entrepreneurs, writers, dreamers & geeks. This little beauty measures less than an inch in diameter. Shine a good light on it, though, and it […]
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February 28, 2008
I came back from my ride this morning to find these parked on my desk. He’s 8. He’s deeply into building intricate little vessels and vehicles out of bucket after bucketful of tiny little parts from four or five dozen Lego kits. Some of the kits he bought with his allowances, more about built and […]
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February 27, 2008
Clutching the thick domes of bronze, hospital he waited. Not to strike yet. No, not yet. These were a gift. To be saved. To be waited for. Until it’s time. Memories of his long ride down boiled up now. He exhaled hard through pursed lips, and shook himself. He blew a hard, rattling raspberry, and […]
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