After my parents divorced and my father’s place turned into a flophouse for his other drunken buddies who took turns being tossed out by their ‘ol’ ladies’, we would take the gas out and wheel the damn thing right into the dining room for winter storage. Yes, dad had a two-car ...
‘It’s a sleepy little place’: disbelief in north Wales after dramatic arrest of US terror suspectThe forgotten Edinburgh street found behind a hidden library doorhazard (n): c. 1300, name of a game at dice, from Old French hasard, hasart“game of chance played with dice,” also “...
This one comes from Nikola Tesla, the 19th-century Serbian-American inventor, who, before inventing the alternating current (which powers most of the world), invented the Tesla coil, an electrical resonant transformer circuit. (Yeah, what he said.) Someone might shoutTesla’s coil!after seeing...
One of the most legendary punk rock performances of all time took place on Halloween 1981. Former 'SNL' cast member John Belushi was a huge fan of the Washington, D.C., group Fear and used his influence to get the band booked on the show. Belushi, in an effort to make the performan...
They dropped rates to zero, effectively, yet the economy remained punk. So, they tried QE. Still no traction. Then QE 2, etc. They were trying to kick-start the economy but couldn’t get it going. When people look back, they only see what they...
it was a coronation of rock’s grunge kings. The group charged through a head-banging rendition of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” before later indulging in the punk-leaning “Territorial Pissings.” At the close of the latter, the band trashed its instruments. It was raw, dynamic and everyth...
it was a coronation of rock’s grunge kings. The group charged through a head-banging rendition of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” before later indulging in the punk-leaning “Territorial Pissings.” At the close of the latter, the band trashed its instruments. It was raw, dynamic and everyth...
Your life is organized like an orbit. I know. 了解了这点,就知道为何四年于相隔千里的我们,似乎只是弹指一挥间而已。 我其实了解小女儿的心理,是希望多一点surprise多一点romantic多一点傻里吧唧的指天划地的。可惜我这方面的才能似乎多用在0,1组成的无机世界里了,于是只能委屈她了。大多数的时间,她就一...
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: Judge lays down Apple's punishment in ebooks case. It's largely in line with what the feds wanted — After weeks of back-and-forth between the Department of Justice and Apple, the federal judge overseeing the ebooks antitrust case issued an injunction against ...
After recounting Fisher’s drug abuse that brought about his tragic demise, the film literally fulfills its function as a wake by alluding to his fictiveness. This is done through reference to Fisher’s hero, Duchamp, and specifically to his feminine alter ego, Rrose Sélavy. Against the back...