By SM Shrake on May 16, 2009 in Feature | 19 Comments
What are the necessary aims of a good topical Facebook status update? It should entertain, delight, challenge, blow a mind or two. This is all about realizing and fully accepting that Facebook is a stage, and we’re all players.
Continue »By SM Shrake on Mar 22, 2009 in Feature | 14 Comments
As the Depression solidifies into Armageddon, we’re all going to have to get more comfortable with committing a lot more crime. The average Joe of the near future is going to make Mad Max look like Paul Lynde.
Continue »By SM Shrake on Dec 21, 2008 in Feature, Music, Unearthed Videos | 4 Comments
Play-by-play account of an odd Patti Smith appearance on the children’s show “Kids Are People Too’ from the 70s.
Continue »By SM Shrake on Dec 4, 2008 in Feature | 12 Comments
Oh-hey-look I’m writing about Facebook again. Instead of getting rich off a similar pyramid scheme, or “marketing myself” off-Facebook, where it count$, I’m sitting around in the dingy Facebook Fascination bathwater we all seem to be wrinkling up in. Neverandnonetheless, I started a group late last month on The ’Book (as I call it), called [...]
Continue »By SM Shrake on Nov 6, 2008 in Feature | 10 Comments
On my recent trip to Dublin with my unforgettable sister, KP, I was thinking about how I had never been so comfortable with my American accent abroad. I hadn’t been overseas since 1999. Maybe it’s getting older that makes you just not care. I didn’t apologize for how I talk or feel bound to explain [...]
Continue »By Russ Starke on Jun 24, 2008 in Feature, Music | 32 Comments
OK so, last week my good buddy Phil (our Jandek correspondent) offered me a last-minute ticket to see R.E.M., Modest Mouse, and The National at the Mann in Philadelphia. Even though I already had thrilling plans for the evening (patching stucco), I sucked it up and relented. A very quick review: The National: they went on at [...]
Continue »By Russ Starke on Jun 13, 2008 in Feature | 28 Comments
When Jeff wrote My Fun Dad in 2005, I thought it was absolutely fantastic, and it made me think that at some point I should do something similar…but it has always seemed a very difficult task because when telling stories about my dad there’s such a big physical component (lots of …
Continue »By Jeff on Jun 2, 2005 in Feature | 16 Comments
As I’m about to experience my first Father’s Day as a father, please allow me this bit of cyberspace to talk about “Dad.” Don’t worry, I’m not about to traipse over the cutesy, sleep-deprived, new-dad territory that so many have traveled on before. I’m sure my experience is no different than most new …
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