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Retro ’80s Cereal

  • April 23, 2011 6:00 am

If you’re a child of the ’80s like me, you’ll wish that these cereal boxes designed by Ian Glaubinger were real. But alas, they are just another beautiful and unattainable dream:

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I Promise Not To Cuss This Week

  • March 2, 2010 1:43 am

The California State Assembly passed a resolution proclaiming this week “Cuss-Free Week.” What that means is that every Californian is being “encouraged” not to use profanity all this week. How do I know this? Because Jasmine told me. Jasmine is 9-years-old and the daughter of a close friend who’s a single mother. I spent the good part of this evening baby-sitting her while her mother was out at a business function and I soon learned that Jasmine’s teacher had told her about cuss-free week and that Jasmine decided it was the right time to confront me about my “cussing problem.”

“Uncle Phil,” she laid into me, “I think you cuss too much. I think it’s a real problem. It’s probably why you’re so old and you’re not married. Girls don’t like boys with dirty mouths.”

“Really?” I reply. I’m only half-listening to her; too busy surfing the web on my lap top.

“That’s why my mommy left my daddy,” Jasmine continues; oblivious to my pressing need to keep up with Angry Asian Man’s most recent posts. “He had a dirty mouth.”  Read more...

Movies on USB?

  • August 19, 2009 2:28 pm

Boing Boing reported today of an emerging trend in the very broken system of film distribution. Ron Mann, a Canadian documentarian, is releasing his latest doc, Knowing Your Mushrooms, on a customized USB stick. It’s shaped like a cute, tooth-filled ‘shroom.  Mann says: “We did this as a fun project. It wasn’t a commercial venture.” Mann is also thinking of distributing his great 1999 doc, Grass, on USB.

Indie filmmakers are not the only ones, testing the waters in digital distribution. A UK company called PNY partnered with Sony Home Entertainment and released Ghostbusters on a specially designed 2GB USB last fall.  Read more...