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Category: Vulture of Culture

Faster Pussycats, Kill, Kill!

by xaosseed

I’ve been enjoying a faster-than-dial-up net connection in my hotel during this trip back – and its trying to make my head twist off with the cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, there’s all the peak oil stuff. On the other hand, there’s the Pussycat Dolls.

Podcast’d brilliance

by uber

@hodgman was in Battlestar Galactica for a cameo recently, and he was brilliant.
He was on The Daily Show, and was brilliant.
And to my total joy, he was on one of my favourite podcasts, This American Life.
Guess what? He was brilliant.
Each TAL is a themed set of vignettes of interesting people living curious [...]

My Bullshit Histories, They Are Out Of Date

by xaosseed

Having my bi-decannual tilt at the windmill of ‘gonna write me a novel…’ and as part of that I’ve been rereading the first (97-98) effort which, amusingly, is a near future thing from back then which means its recent history now…

Subculture becomes culture

by uber

In the old days, the secret language of homosexuality snuck into the stage acts and elicited laughter from people who had, for the most part, little notion of the implications of the terms. In the modern era, we’ve seen the same thing as lolcats and other memes have surfaced from the darkest pits of the [...]

If you are doing nanowrimo

by uber

Don’t write like this guy. Me? I’m in NaTheWriMo. It’s like, no fun.