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Monthly Archives: February 2011

Six Magnificent Classical-Music-Composing Bastards (You’ve Probably Never Heard Of)

Note: If you’re wondering why it looks like a Cracked magazine article, it’s because I pitched it to them first. by Dan Kelly Unless your parents favored tweed suits with elbow patches and made you practice arpeggios eight hours a day, it’s likely your most memorable classical music experience happened when Hans Gruber’s goons cracked […]

Prithee, Attend to My Plea! We Are in Dire Need of Assis… Thunk! Ugh…

The world’s most inefficient warning sign? By the time you finish reading it, a nine-inch icicle might be lodged in your skull.

Photo a Day 2011, #44: The Senate Gathers and Shivers

They all seemed to be saying, “What the hell? Wasn’t it just spring?”

Photo a Day 2011, #43: Ghost Bride

The House That Richard “Built”

Made an interesting trip today to Richard Nickel’s house. With the thaw I felt an itch to search for interesting buildings. Then I remembered that I had yet to see Nickel’s home—though he never actually lived here, having died not so long after buying it. I think it was on the endangered buildings list, but […]

Photo a Day 2011, #42

It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! … Now I know what it feels like to be God!

Photo a Day 2011, #41

DVD Menu Project, Films Watched February 13, 2011

Photo a Day 2011, #40

Mice, Roaches, Ants, Bees, Etc.

Photo a Day 2011, #39

Exultante.