Archive for November, 2008

The Mechanical Contrivium Knows Things You Don’t

It’s true, it really is, every last friggin’ word of it:   Ten Top Trivia Tips about Drunken Smartass!   Drunken Smartass can run sixty-five kilometres an hour – that’s really fast. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14, and Drunken Smartass has 7. If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will [...]

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Chinese Arithmetic

Look, I am as aware of the vagaries and importances of music history as anyone I know, and I know a lot of music nerds. In fact, I’d go so far as to say the people I know are as aware of both where things are right now in music and of where the stuff [...]

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Maybe The Corndog Place Is Hiring.

The great Goopy made this short comic about the economy that’s as cute as you’d expect from his other work, and yet still comes off as a short film. Hmm. Maybe he should be making movies.

Monday, November 24th, 2008

My Name Is Tony, And I Like To Dance!

I wrote a piece for BoingBoing Gadgets on a new kind of motion capture software, into which I manage to shoehorn a digression about pasting ping-pong balls to Tiger Woods’ face that frankly sounded pretty genius as I was typing it. Yes, there’s also video footage of me looking like I’m eight miles high in an Amsterdam [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

RIP, TRL

You know, I’m totally going to miss Total Request Live. For real. It was the cultural touchstone for a generation, the reason I was late for work when I lived near Times Square for a couple of years and I had to wade through the throngs of screaming preteens begging & clamoring for a glimpse [...]

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Pleased To Meet You.

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008