At the beginning of every episode of This American Life, likable host Ira Glass humbles himself by literally begging for donations to his home station, WBEZ in Chicago.
He claims the massive downloads of the show each week are costing his radio station thousands of dollars in bandwidth, costs that used to be covered by underwriting. [...]
entlemen. I seem to remember a little cartoon on Nickelodeon about an evil alien, a teensy one, with two antennae, little pointy limbs, and big shiny eyes. He had a high-pitched voice and delivered grandiose speeches, and yes, it’s all coming back to me now, he had some idiot robot sidekick, and they [...]
A long conversation, in the mode of self-pity, with J. Goldberg outside the Nucleus Gallery, out in the LA balm. Inspired by the stylistically carefree artists on the walls inside, we rumbled over familiar turf: generalized self-doubt; the tug-of-war between pushing ourselves to develop new ideas, vs. the necessity of retaining some kind of [...]
As I type this, I am one-fisting a foiled chicken burrito, naked, praying for death or at least coma.
I keep telling myself that Seattle will be worse this summer, that at least in Death Valley there is interesting wildlife and free-for-the-taking transients on every corner. I made the right choice, [...]
Poiple: Audrey Kitching Needs Better Septum Jewelry’s first song: Fuck you guys. Fuck this keyboard. Fuck the Internet. DancedanceEverybodydance. (repeat x12)
[10:25am] Qyoo: Audrey Kitching needs better septum jewelry
[10:25am] Poiple: that’d be a great band name
[10:25am] Gauger: …shit, you’re right.
[10:26am] Gauger: Who is this Audrey person?
[10:26am] Qyoo: some random hair/model person
[10:26am] Qyoo: I’ve been going through hair stuff for the last week
[10:27am] Qyoo: apparently photobucket is the place to be for big folders of hair colors [...]
Gentlemen?
The urge to write–formerly so all-powerful that I left a trail of scribblings along walls and pavement as I shuffled about my daily tasks, exactly as vermin leave fecal morse code wherever they tread–has all but abandoned me. I am absent from Destructoid, these blogs, and a mere gaseous afterimage of my former greatness [...]
I realize, yes, that the last entry was a horrible chunk of insane blither. If you’re interested in actually making a fully-formed answer to the question “what’s up” spring, Athena-like, from my puckered brow, then I encourage you to skim the beast for news of home.
Otherwise you may carry on as normal.
Near the end I [...]
Some quick updates, since I’ve been busy and haven’t caught up with the SA thread in a few days:
1. Goldman’s “Goodbye Bambi” logo has been removed from his site, following a post by goons. There was much discussion on SA about the hair trigger of the Disney legal team, and the Disney “piracy hotline” [...]
UPDATED APRIL 24TH, 9PM: See bottom of post. Evidence that Goldman’s probably puppeteering his own online “defenders”, and art distributors are starting to remove his work from their storefronts.
Todd Goldman, aka “Goliath”, maker of the eponymous “Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them” t-shirt, stands accused by artists and the internet of mass plagiarism. [...]