Marshall

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• Commented on Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag
  Ginn should totally be on the cover. Or better yet, a shot of Ginn and Chuck....
• Commented on The Green Flash of the Sun
  My office overlooks the Pacific Ocean, and in the decade that I've worked there I've managed to catch two sunsets accompanied by green flashes. Both were sudden, unexpected and kind of mindblowing....
• Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
  You would not believe how difficult it was for me to explain to customs in the US exactly what a snow globe is, and why I had a tiny liquid filled sphere with an elephant inside in my luggage when...
• Commented on Periodic Table Table
  A little higher and it would make one lovely backyard bar....
• Commented on Abandoned bowling alley becomes furniture
  A friend of mine had a bowling alley's worth of this stuff, and boy did it make excellent tabletops and workbenches. I never was able to score any for myself, though....
• Commented on Will the Duggars Inherit the Earth?
  Damn near every contemporary political, societal or environmental problem stems from overpopulation. We all knew it back in the 1970's and then decided to bury our heads in the sand (somewhere around "morning in America" time, IMHO) and treat the...
• Commented on My son, the nude model
  Where I work, we're home to a life drawing/painting workshop that's been going on for almost 40 years now. We get a surprisingly large number of calls and Emails from men (and only from men) looking to model for the...
• Commented on Dinosaur Arm tees
  I too think they're weirdly nipple-y....
• Commented on Quiz: Donald Judd, Or Cheap Furniture?
  Cheap Furniture is better than (and more inspiring and meaningful) than Donald Judd any day of the week. I've been to his personal kingdom in Marfa, and it was like being dipped in a vat of the most boorish, pretentious...
• Commented on Squirrel for dinner
  I haven't eaten squirrel yet, but I've eaten rat (free range rat, in Thailand) and I thought it was crazy delicious - excellent game meat, and a lot like rabbit. The only problem was dealing with all those teeny, tiny...
• Commented on In praise of IBM ThinkPad warranty service
  I got my first Thinkpad (a T60p) three years ago, and I had the same warranty experience after my hard drive died (something dropped on the laptop, total user failure). Top notch service all the way around, being a Lenovo/Thinkpad...
• Commented on Mont Blanc's $23,000 pen to commemorate Gandhi's birth
  Is this the gonzo hardcore porn version of irony?...
• Commented on Asgarda
  Any martial art that is run by a "Supreme Teacher" (or "Supreme" anything, for that matter) is immediately suspect to me. Also, I'm wondering what's the deal with the boxing gloves. I can't think of any fighting art that routinely...
• Commented on Disney Family Museum's sucky no-photos policy
  #8 When a museum owns a piece of art, they then own the rights to reproduce that image. Actually, that's not always the case. Many museums, and most large ones, own artworks who's copyrights are still controlled, at least jointly,...
• Commented on San Francisco police officer arresting skateboarder: "I'll break your arm like a fckng twig."
  What's with the disemvoweling in the post? Did the rating around here suddenly drop to G?...
• Commented on Street vendor selling ID cards, Thailand: random road snapshot
  Common in tourist areas, especially Khao San Road. The 10 minutes I spent "touristing the tourists" there was a depressing portrait of Western culture, I tell you. Khao San Road is lame, but certainly no Gomorrah. For Gomorrah, you have...
• Commented on Cave story: Derek Yu's <em>Spelunky</em> coming to Xbox Live Arcade
  I've found Spelunky to be one of those games that I go back to over and over again, even when I think I've played the hell out of it. Can't wait to play it on the 360....
• Commented on Lego cookie-cutter
  LEGO, dammit....
• Commented on est reincarnated
  These corportate, self improvement cults all use the same basic brainwashing techniques to ensure isolation, disorientation and forced bonding with the new group. An artist I used to work with went through one of their trainings and came out a...
• Commented on Tweet (#3392426826)
  That's because women primarily want to buy and use gadgets made for "people". Unless it's a gadget that's very specifically for women only (like an electronic tampon holder), I'd be willing to bet large money that most women just want...
• Commented on IdeaCentre Q100
  I may be a Thinkpad fanboy, but I love Lenovo's designs. That D400 Home server at the link is cube-tastic. I like how the nettop has a bowling ball inscribed on the side. That's my kind of hieroglyphic....
• Commented on Amazing paintings by Josh Keyes
  I did a studio visit with Josh in Oakland about two years ago and while I never ended up working with him or showing his work, I was incredibly impressed with him and his art. He's going to go very,...
• Commented on Sprint executive killed when boulder drops on his car.
  As someone who has been a passenger in a car hit by a falling rock (about the size of a football - it glanced off our roof) in a falling rock zone, this story activates some kind of phobia in...
• Commented on Brown fat makes you thin
  Is the "potential" here that we could make wasteful, overconsuming individuals who today happen to be grotesquely obese into wasteful, overconsuming individuals who aren't obese?...
• Commented on Olympic cyclist predicts the future of bicycles
  Let's see... Today's bike has been designed by over a century of millions of individual users and tens of thousands of engineers and mechanics evolving an ever better solution. Chris Boardman's bike "of the future" was cooked up by a...
• Commented on Personal Rockin' Computer
  Based on the image alone, I presumed it was some kind of useless, expensive sexual gizmo for folks with Euro aesthetics....
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  Donald Fischer is a complete asshole who's wealth (that is the wealth that bought all that fancy art) comes from the twin barrels of the Gap's sweatshops and the Fischer family's clear cut logging operations. I don't want his museum...
• Commented on Mission Control: ambient music and NASA audio
  Our satellite provider has a channel called Earth that just shows a live (updated every 5 seconds) view of the Earth from space and plays totally relaxing 70's rock and folk music, which I think Mama Earth totally digs. We're...
• Commented on It's not easy being a tamale street vendor in Los Angeles
  The problem in my neighborhood is that there aren't enough of these guys. Because they have to keep on the lowdown and stay mobile, there's never one around when you get a hankering for tamales, and always one honking his...
• Commented on Bangkok's tallest building will add "pixels" to the cityscape
  This will blend right in with Bangkok's uncompleted and graffiti covered ghost high rises. Looks fabulous....