An Idea, But Not Necessarily A Good One

The "suburban loft"

No Virginia, Santa Isn’t A War Criminal.

The War On Christmas? This has to stop. Is enough of the American public blunted on glue fumes to not get that the preoccupation with a “War on Christmas” by...

SFC Sam made it back home in time for Christmas

Just got a link to this video clip from channel 13 in Des Moines featuring an old friend I haven’t seen in years returning home to his family in Iowa....

Office Chrismas Booty

Office Chrismas Booty Originally uploaded by braintoast.

A Symphony of Snot

Funny how sometimes you can become acutely aware of the most ordinary thing when some particular aspect lines up just right. My usual bus trip to work in the morning...

wikiHow OR what, are you stupid?

I threw the RSS feed for wikiHow into my feedreader a while back and sometimes an intriguing one comes through. But, if someone’s going to start an entry it should...

Your secondhand smoke is killing…er, calming me.

I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Iowa City that I’ve always loved. It has all of the characteristics of a good pre-smoking ban Minneapolis coffee shop that I now...

Aerons Are For Chumps

A couple of antiques dealers were having a 2 day sale in a storefront up the street last weekend and I scored a General Fireproofing Goodform office chair for $10....

Listening To My 1941 RCA Victrola TV Stand

I’m a radio geek. Since I was 3 feet tall, radio was the coolest thing in the world to me. I’d lay in my bed at night cruising from one...

Comic Sans is a pockmark on the ass of Typography

The Art*o*mat Makes Almost Anyone an Instant Art Collector

I was having a conversation today with a friend about vending machines and the Art*o*mat popped into my head. I hadn’t thought about them in years. I don’t really recall...

Burning Man Main Man: Larry Harvey Interview

RU Sirius interviews Larry Harvey on the events leading up to the first incarnation of BM in 1986.