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Independence Day? 5 Jul 2013 | 10:25 am
So, Google Reader is officially closed. If you used it, hopefully you saw one of the kabillion articles explaining how to grab your data from Google’s Takeout service, or how to use the more insa...
One Year Later 16 Jul 2012 | 01:22 pm
It’s pretty insane how quickly a year has gone by. The Christmas before my Mom passed away, I gave her a framed print of the photo below. She had said it depicted one of the happiest times in her lif...
My first proper “record” 5 May 2012 | 03:58 pm
I’m kind of amazed by how many of my Facebook connections have been sharing “Firsts” involving the Beastie Boys in the wake of Adam Yauch’s passing. Anyway, I figured I’d throw my story on the pile. ...
Stickadoo. 4 Jan 2012 | 08:35 pm
Awesome vintage office supply packaging, rescued from an estate sale by Sarah. I can find no other photographic evidence of this product on the internet. There are plenty of shady sites trying to get ...
Funklet. 3 Jan 2012 | 08:33 pm
One of the best Kickstarter projects I contributed towards in 2011 (and easily the fastest to go from Kickstarter to my mailbox) was Jack Stratton’s “Funklet: Graphic notations of twenty classic funk ...
Bert’s Curse: Unibrow From Birth 2 Jan 2012 | 08:45 pm
The photo below comes from the box to a Japanese “Little Sesame Street” alarm clock that my wife Sarah bought last time we were in New York (Throughout the time we’ve known each other, Sarah has inter...
Albini on Cobain 28 Sep 2011 | 02:34 pm
While going through a stack of old issues of the Chicago Reader for another project, I happened upon the April 14th, 1994 issue, which featured a few selected reactions to Kurt Cobain’s then-rece...
Sam the Record Man 6 Aug 2011 | 06:48 pm
I guess it’s been a lot longer than I thought since I’ve been to Toronto: I accidentally found out today that the iconic, animated neon signs of Sam the Record Man can no longer be found on Yonge stre...
Beer Label Color Separations 28 Jul 2011 | 03:33 am
In the past few years I’ve accumulated all sorts of bizarre saved eBay searches – things I’m interested in being emailed about whenever they are listed on eBay. This is because I am insane. One of th...
An excerpt from Al Jaffee & Michael Kupperman’s Conversation in The Comics Journal #301 4 Jul 2011 | 05:02 am
An excerpt from Al Jaffee & Michael Kupperman’s Conversation in The Comics Journal #301. On his signature Fold-ins: “I never see it folded until it’s printed.”
