Category: Old Stuff

McCain Golf Gear Prank when you buy your McCain ‘08 Golf gear, you are asked to post a helpful review. Some helpful customers decided to take him up on the offer, and hilarity breaks out all over open

Balloon Juice when you buy your McCain ‘08 Golf gear, you are asked to post a helpful review: Some helpful customers decided to take him up on the offer, and hilarity breaks out all over open

Urban Prankster Urban Prankster covers pranks, hacks, participatory art, flash mobs, and other creative endeavors that take place in public places in cities across the world. It is edited by Charlie Todd. open

i miss playing with this guys. The only band I was ever in that got along the whole time. open

Films of Les Blank “Some people (unfortunate viewers!) assume that documentaries are didactic chronicles, usually narrated by an all-knowing and often paternal male voice. Les Blank’s documentaries, from HOT PEPPER to IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER?, resist such categorization. They’re more often joyful glimpses of an America far from the corporate mainstream. He has…

Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980) This is Les Blank’s (www.lesblank.com) most gastronomically obsessional film portrait yet. An exhaustive, lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation, and culinary and curative powers of allium sativum, the film lingers in the disparate kitchens of Chez Panisse and Flint’s Bar-B-Que in Berkeley, and Truckee’s paradise for…

Flaco Jimenez,Santiago Jimenez Sr. from the documentary chulas fronteras film by Les Blank, and Chris Strachwitz. open

“Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers” Les Blank. I ate that bread thing in Spain. open

In Heaven There is No Beer – 1984, Les Blank doc. Les Blank has a lot of great films under his belt. Still want to see the one on Huey Lewis. open

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YouTube – Chulas Fronteras Flaco Jimenez,Santiago Jimenez Sr. open

ABC News: Specialized NYPD Unit Tracks Graffiti Writers http://abcnews.go.com/US/WireStory?id=5021523&page=1 The finished product may be impressive, but it’s also illegal — and constantly being monitored by a specialized Police Department graffiti unit. The unit is sophisticated in its own right, keeping a database of offenders and holding weekly meetings to pore over graffiti crime stats. open