Posts from November, 2002
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Nov1Clowns Scare Me
Looking for a Christmas gift for that “hard-to-please” friend or loved one? Head on over to eBay and place a bid on this scary ass clown doll. Here’s some info: “I bought this Clown doll a few months ago. It looks like it was made in the 40′s or 50′s, This is a large clown, [...]
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Nov0Pitchfork’s Top 10 records of the 80′s
010: 010: Joy Division Closer009: Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back008: Tom Waits Rain Dogs007: Pixies Surfer Rosa006: The Smiths The Queen Is Dead005: R.E.M. Murmur004: Pixies Doolittle003: Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique002: Talking Heads Remain in Light001: Sonic Youth Daydream Nation See the rest of the Top 100…
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Nov0Have web logs killed zines?
The coolest aspect of the punk/DIY scene of yesteryear was zines. Kinko’s was a holy place where a few bucks could crank out several pages of your teen-angst fueled scrawlings. I liked how there was often no obvious distribution points and you often just found zines in random places– like in the corner of a [...]
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Nov0Just Trying to Pay My Bills.com
You may have caught the NPR segment this morning regarding paying bills electronically… At first I thought the deal was going to be that the dot-com bill payment companies would soon be shutting their doors. To the contrary, some companies are viewing check-based payment as a potential revenue source and encouraging customers to pay online [...]
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Nov1Why Do Europeans Care So Much More than Americans About Architecture?
Boston Globe writer, Robert Campbell, recently attended the International Architectural Biennale in Venice and was among 100,000 people that visited the 8-week long festival. He writes, “Maybe the reason is that Europeans more often live in cities and towns and less often in suburbs. In a town, architecture creates the world you live in. It [...]
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