Shawn Wolfe

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• Commented on Goldwag: Cranks, Curiosities, and the Process Church
  We attended The Process Church performance/service here in Seattle a couple weekends ago with Adam Parfrey and a reconstituted Process Church Band. Really odd and cool. The book is fascinating and packed with large color reproductions from the Process magazine,...
• Commented on Vegas uses computers to nab card counters
  Having a rule against counting cards is like having a rule against paying attention. Personally? I enjoy the excitement of just flushing my money straight down the toilet. Wet and wild. That's how I likes it....
• Commented on New book on conspiracies and Shermer's skeptical take on the topic
  The Rothschilds went to Mars in 1957. Fact....
• Commented on Time-lapse sim of Earth's land mass movement
  #10 Right on. I've watched that video many times and find it nothing but completely plausible. I don't understand why people flip out and call it "dangerously deranged" ... hahahahaha...
• Commented on God comics: God asserts his copyright in the universe
  Holy shit, that's funny....
• Commented on Mark on The Martha Stewart Show, May 18, 2009
  Elfin Magic! We'll be watching, Mark....
• Commented on Photos from abandoned clothing factory
  "Who's off the street?? I'm in the raincoat business for 35 years!!" —Morty Seinfeld...
• Commented on Video: "The pizza box of the 21st century"
  Surely Pizza Hut is working on a way to baking an edible box right into the crust. I know that doesn't make a damn bit of sense but neither do 90% of their pizza inventions....
• Commented on Diff'rent Strokes opening sequence, reconsidered
  It's sinister and foreboding... but it's also weary and forlorn, like the old white dude isn't doing anything so dramatic as abducting Arnold and Willis... this routine collecting of the children is some kind of grim ritual and indicates an...
• Commented on AT-AT anatomy tee
  R2D2 already has a skeleton. His name is Kenny Baker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Baker...
• Commented on Secret bible of the paleo-steampunks: Mayhew's "London Labour and the London Poor"
  I usually like to piss and moan about the verbing of nouns ("friending", "texting"), but this time I'm going to complain about the nouning of a verb, i.e. "making"...
• Favorited Roomba with animatronic chimp head on Boing Boing
• Favorited BBtv: Joel Johnson interviews Syd Mead, part 2. on Boing Boing
• Commented on Inspiration for Super Friends' Hall of Justice
  #10 Not sure David. I just Googled "60s supermarket" and came up with that link....
• Commented on Inspiration for Super Friends' Hall of Justice
  http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3150/2880708748_9a9c588d4d.jpg?v=0...
• Commented on World's longest sausage
  They say it's the girth, not the length....
• Commented on Indian Superman video
  Why isn't Superman wearing his usual red panties?...
• Commented on Ryan Heshka's vintage SF-inspired paintings
  Totally amazing artist. Crummy JPEGs don't do him justice....
• Commented on Nightly meditations on 33 1/3
  They should do Malcom McLaren's "Duck Rock" album. And "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!" And "Helter Stupid" by Negativland...
• Commented on HOWTO Convert your car to run on garbage
  That's a pretty sweet ride. What is that, an '84 Renault Alliance?...
• Commented on More photos of Russia's presidential jet
  This is why I can't watch Solaris....
• Commented on Video: teenagers tear up some bluegrass
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAey1tOza_o...
• Commented on News story from 1985 about punk scene in Boise
  Here's a similar segment from the local news in Columbus, OH from the same year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaOlNfC8_xQ...
• Commented on Ryan Heshka's paintings in upcoming shows
  One of my favorite artists. I love his work - so nice to see it in real life too... his paintings are interesting objects, physically... on top of being super eerie images and cool and amusing and unsettling, etc....
• Commented on Recreation of Laurel and Hardy's Culver City
  Glorious Obsessive! Schreuders also designed the CD packages for The Beau Hunks Orchestra recreations of all the Hal Roach music where they went back to the original scores and re-performed all the music note-for-note using period instruments. Fascinating and delightful...
• Commented on The Essential Groucho
  I've read every one of Groucho's books and most of the other books about Groucho. Is this primarily a collection of previously-published material? Favorite Groucho P.S. "Did you ever notice that Peter O'Toole is a great double-phallic name?" Favorite Groucho...
• Commented on Onion headline from 1993: Roy The Forklift Driver addresses nation
  Wow....
• Commented on Binder clipper makes for nice iPhone stand
  He's watching The Patterson Film. That's the key....
• Commented on Doll-house steampunk keyboard
  OMFG! End-Times!!!!!!...
• Commented on US Congresspeople Told Martial Law Would Be Imposed if Bailout Bill Didn't Pass
  National Socialism is rising. I'm just sayin'....