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Things aren’t looking good for Matt’s company. Matt took a voluntary “stay-cation” this week, using up vacation time instead of asking for wages they can’t afford. They have an in-house project for December, and after that? They don’t know. Yes, we’ve got his resume back on Dice. No, he hasn’t worked there long enough to [...]

I was GISing “punk squirrels” (long, drunken story) and came across… ah, just watch: When I finally snap, I hope they find me in the backyard giving the squirrels Jello dye jobs and little clip-on piercings…

So! I’m flipping channels and I come across the nightmare-breeding kids show Doodlebops. And I think, “That’s it: The next generation is f**ked.” I mean, between this weirdness and Hannah Montana… But then I think, “Hang on, maybe it’s just me. I know young parents. Maybe this stuff rocks their world.” So I do some [...]

Canada is the McGyver of nations. Subsisting exclusively on jerky, Tim Hortons doughnuts, and milk in a bag, they produce no-budget sitcoms with more topical, thoughtful, and actually amusing social commentary than any American TV show since All in the Family. To wit: Little Mosque on the Prairie: I wonder where I can watch that [...]

* El Perro Del Mar is a one-woman indie pop act from Sweden. A Motown beat on Valium paired with impossibly high vocals leave you gasping for air. (Via Schema Magazine, which is all kinds of awesome.) * Reason #300,000,000,001 it’s annoying being American: Robert Wyatt’s 2007 album Comicopera was named album of the year [...]

Kerri’s hilarious contribution inspires a special “kitchens and baths” edition of Fixers from Hell. Remember, folks, I don’t go looking for ugly real estate photos. These photos are all from bona fide real estate web sites, of homes in my price range. Apparently my price range is “rat’s nest”. Are there cupboards in the bathroom [...]

To cheer Matt up we went looking at houses yesterday. An exchange at a massive Mt. Tabor fixer which should finally settle that old “how insane are you??” debate: Me: A two-story garage! We could make a studio apartment on the first floor and live in it while we work on the house. And when [...]

Via NPR, Patrick Borelli and Douglas Gorenstein poured over 50,000 headshots– those photos actors send to casting directors with a resume on the back– and picked out the most stunning, memorable, and, in some cases, disturbing of the lot. The result: Holy Headshot, TofuPunk’s pick for book of the year. Do NOT miss the video [...]

Gaze at these instead of staring into the sun… * Designer Anna James takes classic furniture and modernizes the hell out of it. Via * This iPod is old school! Via * When the HELL were these Goon Jones soda labels released?? WANT! * Fark be picking on mah fellow bass playahs agin! * OMG [...]

Articles I’ve babbled about to Matt, in no particular order… * Two years ago, a small Scottish company bought the UK publishing rights to a then little-known junior senator’s books. They now expect to sell more than 500,000 copies of “Audacity of Hope” and “Dreams from my Father” before Christmas. * If that wasn’t weird [...]