From the monthly archives:

April 2005


New Releases – this isn’t the article, the photo is!

4/19 Hank Jones Saturday Night Thunder Undecided

This is awesome. I’m so happy for Mike, Nick, Shawn and Seth!

Seriously, Mike has done so much to keep the Erie Hardcore scene alive and well, and for the longest time never did anything with it (that I knew of). They are some serious fun to watch and they deserve all the fame and fun they get… especially the fun. I just want to point out that I knew them (at least Nick and Mike) before you!

Namedrop GO!

PS. Thanks, Tom, for the bandwidth!


Pen Gymnastics

These guys are incredibles, they play with pens so fast and have many different tricks!

You know that trick where you spin the pen around your thumb? Take that x500 and you have these guys. Imagine all the chicks you could pick up in study hall, or at the DMV when you’re filling out your forms, or at the clinic!

Seriously amazing, I can’t even get a pen around my hand ONCE, let along like that… ahh if only I was Thai!


I am 8-bit

WARNING: MASSIVE amount of pics, sorry 56k.

This is simply amazing.

Here’s about 25 paintings, screenprints, graf, etc. that are all based around old school gaming. My personal fav’s are Tim Tomkinson’s “Hunter Thompson Duck Hunt”, Isaac Pierro’s “Our Lady of Luigi”, and Haze’s graf-style Wing-ed Mario.

I’d hang almost any of these peices on my wall!

Just pray it’s not Jar-Jar!

April 25, 2005

George Lucas Plans ‘Star Wars’ Spin-Off Series At first, according to StarWars.com, Lucas said, “There’s none of the main characters from I, II, and III” in the series, but stopped mid-sentence and said that “that’s not exactly true now that I think about it.” To be honest, I’m excited, but a little afraid. Afraid that [...]

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Language, Semantics and Hermanutics

April 24, 2005

World Wide Words Gyp is a moderately common expression, mainly in the UK, but also in Commonwealth countries, though my gut feeling is that it’s now mostly used by older people. It appears in fixed phrases that refer to some part of the body being painful, as in this example from the London Evening Standard [...]

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