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While writing her own Internet pornography ad for whores.ru, A Hu-Li teasingly draws from the fairy tales of Aksakov, the poetry of Blok, the writings of Nabokov. To spice up a casual encounter, she daydreams of Suetonius — who inspires one of her especially sadistic group sex sessions. Needless to say, she handles the allusions with an admirably deft touch.
—Liesl Schillinger on Pelevin's The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
A portrait of the Madonna made of 2925 dice by Robert Hodgin:
Create your own by following these steps:
- Step 1: Get drunk on martinis and buy a shit-load of dice from Amazon.
- Step 2: Wait one week. Arrival!
- Step 3: Think of an image you don’t mind spending several hours immortalizing.
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In what would be one of the more bizarre events in rock history, the band’s manager, Clifford Davis, claimed that he owned the name Fleetwood Mac and put out a “fake Mac”. Nobody in the “fake Mac” was ever officially in the real band, although some of them later acted as Danny Kirwan’s studio band. Fans were told that Bob Welch and John McVie had quit the group, and that Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie would be joining the band at a later date, after getting some rest. Fleetwood Mac’s road manager, John Courage, worked one show before he realised that the line being used was a lie. Courage ended up hiding the real Fleetwood Mac’s equipment, which helped shorten the tour by the fake band.
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“Wojtyla Disco Dance (Part 2)”
from Wojtyla Disco Dance 7" by Freddy the Flying Dutchman (1979)
from Wojtyla Disco Dance 7" by Freddy the Flying Dutchman (1979)
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Buffalo Guys, Won’t You Come Out Tonight? NY Observer on the NY hip male obsession with work wear, hitting more blogs than you can shake a stick at. Do any of these labels make their clothes affordable for the working class?
the article mentions several brands that makes work clothes and prices them accordingly: red wing, woolrich, estex, duluth pack. however, these kinds of clothes are generally difficult to find in nyc. woolrich specifically started a division to appeal to the high end, but they still sell their lower priced clothing as well. as for labels like gilded age, engineered garments, and rag & bone, why would they make their clothes affordable? they don’t sell to that market.
from the review of the rag & bone store linked above:
Two very pretty long-haired female clerks were rushing around helping everyone while a guy clerk wearing a bowler hat, mustache and one of the Rag & Bone waistcoats sat behind the desk staring at the computer and his forearm tattoos.
My question was more about clothing brands than Estex or (the aweosme) Duluth Pack.
Red Wing has been partnered with J Crew for awhile, and I assume these are a more expensive line.
Re: Woolrich, I’m also curious if these boutiques only carry their designer partnership label or the regular catalog.
apparently you can’t deep link into the main woolrich web site shop.
and re: yr question being more about clothing brands, it appears that the extant work clothes brands sometimes start a line for the high end but not vice versa.
There was a cheap Malaysian comm that he’d once bought because of its hyped up de-hibernate feature – its ability to go from its deepest power-saving sleepmode to full waking glory without the customary thirty seconds of drive-churning housekeeping as it reestablished its network connection, verified its file system and memory, and pinged its buddy-list for state and presence info. This Malaysian comm, the Crackler, had the uncanny ability to go into suspended animation indefinitely, and yet throw your workspace back on its display in a hot instant. When Art actually laid hands on it, after it meandered its way across the world by slow boat, corrupt GMT+8 Posts and Telegraphs authorities, over-engineered courier services and Revenue Canada’s Customs agents, he was enchanted by this feature. He could put the device into deep sleep, close it up, and pop its cover open and poof! there were his windows. It took him three days and an interesting crash to notice that even though he was seeing his workspace, he wasn’t able to interact with it for thirty seconds. The auspicious crash revealed the presence of a screenshot of his pre-hibernation workspace on the drive, and he realized that the machine was tricking him, displaying the screenshot – the illusion of wakefulness – when he woke it up, relying on the illusion to endure while it performed its housekeeping tasks in the background. A little stopwatch work proved that this chicanery actually added three seconds to the overall wake-time, and taught him his first important user-experience lesson: perception of functionality trumps the actual function.
–Eastern Standard Tribes, Cory Doctorow
Apps on the iPhone can ship a ‘default.png’ in their bundle. When you start the app, it’ll first show this image, then load the rest of the app. The idea is, you can ship a picture of the start state of your app, and it’ll appear to have started very quickly. This is why some apps are unresponsive just after they start — they’re not actually started, you’re just looking at a picture. Other apps misuse this feature to display a splash screen. Urgh, splash screens.
–Tom Insam on the iPhone, via Daring Fireball
ps- ry i later learned that the particular grown-ass adults playing beerpong from that txt were the kickball commish and some of his cronies. i hope this comment doesn’t make a vein explode in your mind.
oh so that was you?
finn, what position do you play?
usually shortstop or right field.
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To fund his art, Serra started a furniture-removals business, Low-Rate Movers, and employed most of his struggling friends. For a while Philip Glass worked as his assistant, helping him install shows and lug furniture up and down the steps of brownstones.
—Guardian Interview with Richard Serra
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