Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was born on December 10, 1851 to a poor family who lived in a small town in upper New York state. Keenly interested in simplified spelling, he shortened his first name to Melvil as a young adult, dropped his middle names and, for a short time, even spelled his last name […]
Some of you may know I took a trip. I’m calling this section “Fight Action†and it will likely rock you like a hurricane. Check back for a new video every day this week. • Rome – Fist Punch
A4 Papercuts Description of one of his live performances: Tower, 50 min. performance at the opening of Masculinities, NIKOLAJ Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, November 2001. From the beginning of the show I was lying inside one of the big cardboard boxes dressed up in my Kings costume. Suddenly I came out of the box and […]
Aug/Sept Modern Bride Pg. 466 Don’t worry about it.
I’ve started thinking about all the ways that the internet is changing our public/private interactions with one another, and how funny it is that we are the first generation really to be discovering these things. Think of all the things that all of a sudden have a new spin on them; dating someone always manifests […]
If you directed the Ex Models – Sex Automata or Slowreader – On This Day music videos, comment in and tell us. We linked your fine works here on our “Laser Disc Music” video page (see right), would love to credit you correctly for them, and have a little chat if you’d so fancy.
Back in February I was a tour guide in Utah for a group of eleven Japanese students. This email came from one of them after he arrived back in Japan. This chubby kid was nineteen, a little socially awkward, and I didn’t understand a single word he said the entire two weeks he was here. […]
So the other day I’m told (sent an e-flyer and everything) about a party in San Clemente at this guy Monti‘s house, and I know both Monti and his house pretty well, so I think “I haven’t seen those guys in a long while, I should go.” And we drive down and are walking up […]
Wooly Mammoths lived a long time ago here on Earth, before dogs and rabbits but after the dinosaurs were gone. They lived in the North, which used to be a lot bigger and had some men with spears in it. The Wooly Mammoths did not have mobile phones, so they had to use walkie-talkies or […]
Last night I had the saddest dream about my ex-girlfriend. It was like in a short film or a commercial. She was running and supposed to visit me, but the film had been re-edited and they re-shot a new ending without me. She was actually visiting Spike Jonze instead of me! I was so devastated […]