Because I haven’t had an asshat for a while, and because this is rich in all senses of the word, I want to share a tidbit I found on Whatever. Meet Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild. Yeah, those Rothschilds. The ones that are, well, kinda well Read more…
Rick Griffin was a psychedelic artist who did a lot of posters as well as underground comics, back in the day. Stuff like this:Note the little guys in the lower right? They’re kind of a motif of his. Apparently, someone at Coke started smoking the same stuff.
This was a week where I discovered two little tidbits that really set my blood boiling over the state of IP law in this country. In both cases we have companies using the excuse of copyright to act like Uncle Vinnie the Mob Enforcer, but without the pinky ring or Read more…
UPDATE: At least according to the band, their managers are the clueless asshats. I think they need better management. I haven’t nominated an asshat for awhile, then I came across this little tidbit. And no, this doesn’t involve some sort of draconian fan-stomping over who should pay for what. In Read more…
Occasionally you discover that the time is just right for something. Things just bubble up in the common consciousness, suddenly bombarding you with some concept or image that pervades the ether and suddenly you’ve discovered that collective humanity has crossed some cultural Rubicon and it becomes literally impossible to imagine Read more…
Judging by this ad at least:It may just be me, but dancing skeletons do not fill me with the urge to refinance. They fill me with the urge to stock up on canned goods, toilet paper, duct tape and shotgun shells.
Warning: Cognitive dissonance ahead. Continuing with the Rammstein theme, proof that the Germans and the Japanese are up to something again. . .
Mixed bag today. This one is from the Smart Bitches, and is entitled the “Engineers Guide to Cats.” Of course, that was nowhere near strange or disturbing enough to live up to some of the stuff I’ve posted before, so I will follow that up with some seriously WTF nightmare Read more…
I just caught two rather synchronous internet implosions in rather quick succession. Both are object lessons in how the internet doesn’t care what you really meant. The one implosion happened from a post on Tess Gerritsen’s blog that inspired a incredulous response on the Dear Author blog. Which is sort Read more…
And then they cover this. (via Scalzi) You know, I’m enough of a geek to actually be interested in fonts in and of themselves. But tying them into campaign coverage gives me a hefty dose of WTF. And I give the irregular-weekly asshat award to Seymour Chwast who managed to Read more…