You could spend hours looking through Andrea Joseph's Sketchblog and Flickr, so if you find the promised story behind Larry David's appearance in this entry, please let me know....
Exhibit A Deep Cosplay: Buddhism geek [caption id="attachment_2667" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Kuya Shonin (903-72) with little Amida Buddhas coming out of his mouth"][/caption] Exhibit B Meta Cosplay: '80s 8-bit fan [caption id="attachment_2668" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Legend of Zelda (ca. 1986)"][/caption] ...
This is the most exciting blog I've seen in a long time. You don't have to be Catholic (or make a mockery) to have fun with it. If I were a religion major, I'd choose it over Wikipedia to cram for the Liturgical Seasons exam, for sure. Make every day a Feast Day! [caption id="attachment_2657" align="alignnone"...
Sometimes the things that make you sick and obsessive you cannot talk about in public without alienating yourself, unless those things make you sicker and crazier, in which case you get a show on TLC.* So Chibi had to go away for a while to deal with some stuff until she was ready to obsess about...
Lunch on Air Force One, Midair Between Washington, DC, and Little Rock, Arkansas, January 2001 / Rek-O-Kut “Rondine” Turntable (circa 1958), San Francisco, California, September 2001 Todd Eberle for the win. (via the New Yorker)...
I don't understand Catalan but I love & Piscolabis Librorum for its scans of amazing books, for instance Frans Masereel's The Sun. See also Masereel's City here. Thank you, Internet....
OK, this is not super new but it may be the coolest skate-related thing I've seen come out of Japan since the Nakano Sun Plaza candle made out of skateboard wax: ...
[caption id="attachment_2536" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="May 15, 2011, after the London show (from summvs.blogspot.com)"][/caption] Alva Noto (aka Carsten Nicolai) is keeping a simple blog with photos and low-res videos of his current S tour with Ryuichi Sakamoto at summvs.blogspot.com. Noto and Sakamoto's new album, Summvs, is reportedly their last together. If you're unfamiliar with their collaborations, you might...
I've just spent the last ten minutes debating with a friend the relative merits of wearing a pair of Necomimi at the bar should they in fact hit the market at the end of the year. We agreed they would draw attention but diverged when it came to the "then what?" His vision: "Why is this cat guy...
The Damnation of Faust is at the London Coliseum through June 7th. Reviews have been mixed. (See the Guardian review vs. the much less generous piece by Bloomberg.) If you've seen it, please tell us your thoughts!...