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Internet Famous

There’s a game on Facebook called PackRat. It’s like playing Mah Jong but the tiles are icons hidden around that you can also buy are steal from your friends. I’ve never played it. It’s appears to be quite popular.
Today a friend informed me that I’m part of a themed icon set for SXSW. There [...]

Flattering

I’ve had a friend that for years has been painting portraits I rather coveted. One day she finally said she was going to start selling them. Molly’s birthday was coming up so I immediately requested her versions of Billie Holiday and Holly Golightly.
Today I went to a show of her’s at the Sometime Gallery and [...]

Cherry Chocolate Rain …

A couple weeks ago I blogged how the internet meme Chocolate Rain had jumped the virtual fire line. Gavin pointed out that it wasn’t the first line it had jumped.
But Tay Zonday has pulled a William Hungian move and released a high quality video remix that is one-part self-paradoy, one-part chest beating, one-part internet stunner.

The [...]

Baby Come Back!

At this point I am positive you want to know who sang the song ‘Baby Come Back’
It’s stumped everyone I know … except the internet.
The infectious riffs, harmonies and lyric hooks (verbage lifted from wikipedia) made it a 1978 #1 hit for ….. a band naaaaaamed …..Player.
Now sit back and enjoy a song any fool [...]

Chocolate Rain Jumps the Fireline

Last night I spotted this Chocolate Rain graffiti on Grace St. in SF. Grace is in SOMA between 10th and 11th going from Mission to Howard.
It appears Chocolate Rain has “jumped the fireline”. In the same way a roaring wildfire can jump a fireline which was supposed to curtail it, an internet meme, in this [...]

How Can We Know?

How can we know this picture wasn’t captured off-planet?
Phillip Torrone and friend

10th Burning Man

Went to my 10th Burning Man in 12 years last week.
Here’s a glimpse of what I saw. Full set here.

All photos from my camera, hosted by flickr.

Oh Noes! I Has Let Go!

CHZ and Tofu Burgers are curating sheer lolcat madness!

 

 
Here’s one from yesterday. Brizziliant

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER!

Daft Punk was *Fierce*

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I went to the Daft Punk show last Friday at The Greek thanks to Fauxnique and Silence Fiction.
It was off the fracking chizzain!
Daft Punk’s live show is *fierce* and well worth the wait. This guy Max said it was mind blowing
The videos on YouTube are low-res and aurally demanding, but give it a second and [...]

Last Saturday a Robot Saved My Life

Eddie saved me from a needless night on the couch, a couple week ago.
Instead I got to see the animatronic melodic absurdness of Captured By Robots just roll-down-the-hill block at Bottom of my the Hill
What the “band” lacks in music writing genius, they make up for with mad, mad genius. (I’m not repeating the word [...]