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chrishatfield — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:04:15 +0000

Maybe I’ll buy this and move back to Michigan. Been thinking about growing some scissorhands anyway.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/for-sale-5-br-detroit-manse-8995/

Bizarre Robot Cereal Mascot

shawnknight — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:21:52 +0000

G&S&G&L Box

Check out this commercial for “Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs” cereal: http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/8844/

Description from an expired eBay listing: “The workers are Giggles the woman, Grins the man in brown suit, Laughs the man in the blue suit and Smiles in the green suit. They all had to make Cecil the machine laugh so he would spit out the cereal boxes. STRANGE, but it sold cereal for a few years and that’s what counted.”

Other than his voice, Cecil’s bone and giant ear really do it for me.

Mr. Chi City Christmas

zachcurd — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:14:09 +0000

I know most of you haven’t been keeping up with the follies of Mr. Chi City, but I have. Consider that my Christmas gift to you all.

Watch this video. It is awesome.

I can’t believe this happened in 1974, and I just heard about it

zachnorton — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:23:20 +0000

I saw a really neat movie called Man On Wire. It’s about this crazy French guy who (with help from some friends) suspends a tight rope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, then walks across it.

Oh, right, and it’s a documentary, because it’s true and it actually happened. Totally insane and very entertaining.

I did something awesome/stupid

zachnorton — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:59:30 +0000

Check out my awesome comment on eatthiscity.com’s 2008 top lists post. Somebody called Child Bite (and the Terrible Twos) overrated, so I commented back something that is funny (to me), that most people probably won’t get is a joke (since they didn’t see the smile on my face while I typed it, or the funny conversation Zach C. and I had before I posted it).

People are so rude on the internet. Especially on blogs. Link!

‘Tis The Season For Year-End Lists

zachcurd — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:35:49 +0000

I thought I would share some of the websites that I really enjoyed over the course of this year. I’m constantly behind on my Google Reader unread items, but attempting to catch up on them is easily one of my favorite things to do. Adam made a comment recently that he spends too much time consuming content instead of creating it. While I can relate, I guess I see the explosion of information, images, video, etc on the internet as a chance to keep my creative palette ON LOCK DOWN. PALETTES ON LOCK DOWN. Yeah, I dunno. OK HERE WE GO:

Everything Is Terrible:

Random videos that are usually funny or insane. Archival, pretty much.

Street Carnage:

More archival video goodness, plus photos of hipsters, plus crazy blog entries that sometimes make me sad.

Fail Blog:

Random acts of fail-age.

The Post-Rockist:

Detroit and St. Louis music blog. Consistently thoughtful. I’m a fan of the more trashy Detroit blogs too, but these dudes are humble and I like that.

Sonic Sunset:

Great house/dance/disco mixes from nice dudes outta Chicago. They’ve been doing this for a few years now. ALWAYS GREAT.

90s Singles:

Exactly what the title says. I’m a fan of 12 inch singles, and this blog seems to share that love. Placing alternate mixes on a single release is something that the indie-rock world needs to consider more.

Selectism:

Random “design-y” stuff. I have to assume this blog is written out of New York. “Daily Mean’s Fashion, Footwear, Lifestyle, and Design Culture Magazine” sez the header. “Stuff I Could Never Afford” sez me.

Fabulon:

Similar to Selectism, but more fashion photography-centric.

Vintage Paperbacks (Non-Penguin) Photo Pool on Flickr:

For those who love vintage paperback book design, but hate Penguin designs.

Animal New York:

New York-centric news and happenings, but not done in that horribly snobby New York way.

Clublife:

This guy is a doorman/bouncer in New York. He writes about it and it is awesome.

Times Archive Blog:

Light historical analysis of the Times London.

Mirabilis.ca:

All of your hott antiquity newz in one convenient spot.

1692 In America:

Primary source goodness all about the year 1692 in “America.”

Strange Maps:

GETCHA HOTT MAPZ YA’LL.

Classic Arts Showcase Channel on YouTube:

This is a TV network that used to be on channel 20 on Livonia cable a number of years ago, but isn’t anymore. I was very stoked to see that they had a YouTube channel.

Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise:

Thoughts on music from New Yorker writer Alex Ross.

Silicon Alley Insider:

Snarky tech news.

Waxy.org Links:

Andy Baio has been running this site forever. Most of the links that he posts are worth your time.

Get Rich Slowly:

Not really the how-to guide that the title implies. Instead, solid advice on to slowly get to where you want in life. This site jives well with my steez.

TV Crunch:

The best of TV without having to watch it.

This Isn’t Happiness:

Cool tumblr photo blog.

English Russia:

Awesome person in Russia clues you in to what’s going on in Russia. I cannot stress enough how awesome this site is.

The Sartorialist:

Street fashion photography.

Vintage Computing And Gaming:

Awesome.

OK all done. Any cool sites to share? GET AT ME IN THE COMMENTS YA’LL.

Imogen Heap

zachcurd — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:06:53 +0000

Adam’s wife, Sarah, played a song by Imogen Heap on her radio show (Tuesdays 10am - Noon) today, which reminded me that this video exists:

Seems like doing something like that would a logistical nightmare, but much like other loopstation savants, Imogen Heap makes it look completely effortless. Cool!

Imogen Heap also reminds me of this.

The cool thing about Criagslist is you can trade for stuff

zachnorton — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:44:51 +0000

Dude needs to get rid of his guitar, but doesn’t necessarily need cash:

“This is a gorgeous lil jackson electric
beautiful finish on it
plays crisp and clean
new strings

what im looking for

a flying V would be a GREAT guitar my girlfriend has always loved them and wants to learn to play so ill take a nice one of them

other offers considered

Handguns
beretta 92s and 94s are an instant if its in good condition with little wear on the barrel and action
anything from 9mm automatic to .44magnum revolvers
i could always use a new handgun

Rifles, a standard AR15 would be acceptable without a large amount of modifications
AK47 varriants are nice, i have one but one more wouldnt hurt
any deer rifles with a bolt action or lever action

Side By Side (SxS) double barreled shotguns are a good offer as well, not a fan of over unders
Will Look at all SLR Cameras and DSLR Cannons are a plus

248 xxx-xxxx”

I hope somebody has a flying V for him.

The Word Play - “Three”

zachcurd — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:54:35 +0000

The Word Play got the “HOTT VID” treatment recently. Check it:

http://vimeo.com/2416846

Sprawlidaze

zachcurd — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:44:14 +0000

Just a quick blogaroo to announce that the 2008 holiday compilation is now up. Whoomp here it is: