We’ve got anti-emo riots breaking out in Mexico. Also a couple of interesting lists from Wikipedia - Youth Subcultures and Subcultures in general. But it really all starts with the music scene, and what better place to look into that than Scaruffi’s exhaustive History of Rock Music (New Wave, Punk and Hardcore 1976-1989). And finally, […]

i haven’t thought about forgiveness as a concept for a long time. not until a recent conversation with a friend where i was challenged to define forgiveness and during the course of which it was suggested that forgiveness does not exist. i suppose the concept of forgiveness is another thing that i have taken for […]

My friend Mat suggested I write about the death of E. Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons. I don’t really have much to say, as my experience with D&D was pretty much limited to stern warnings of “real” spells and satanic influences. Fortunately, having grown up in Lake Geneva i can relay the following […]

Please note these are prints, not original art… but they are all hand-numbered and signed limited edition prints. So if you’ve got a spare 50 bones laying around, why not get a couple of these sweet prints.
1. Thumbtack Press. Buy it or submit your own! $20+
2. Blueflip Art. Affordable art also donates to the artists […]

Visual Studio Guy “What is it with these straight-edge neopunks these days?” Action figures are cool, but PHP is cooler. America’s Most Sinful Cities I know the “7 Deadly Sins” are apocryphal, but the graphics are pretty cool. Democrats for Life “We believe life is threatened in today’s world by war, abortion, economic injustice, racial […]

Just found a great source for very cheap music: Amie St. The model works like this: the more popular the song, the more expensive it gets until it reaches the $.98 point. So yes, there are free albums (not just songs - entire albums) IF you can be one of the first few downloaders. A […]