Gareth Branwyn

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• Commented on Halloweens of yore, remembered through costumes.
  This is true. That's Atomic Zagnut, with his ferret, in the pic. He goes by the name Zag. Lars Zig goes by Lars, so they were never Zig and Zag (darn it). Before Lars was born, I was pushing for...
• Commented on Halloweens of yore, remembered through costumes.
  No offense taken. You're right. Patch really had the Gomez act down. JJ, the guy dressed as Lurch, was amazing. And don't forget Thing. Dave had to stay inside that box all night. I liked that our costume was a...
• Commented on Halloweens of yore, remembered through costumes.
  @earbox Yeah, truth be told, it wasn't the most successful costume. As I said, it was hot as hell in there and it LOOKED like the cheap, short-hair, fake fur material it was made out of. But everyone knew it...
• Commented on Yoko Ono Embraces Creative Commons? O Yes!
  This is awesome news, Xeni! Good job. This AND the Rachel Maddow Show within the same week? Somebody's on a roll!...
• Commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Ralph Lauren's Photoshop of Horrors
  You are SO good in these TV bits, Xeni. Really impressive....
• Commented on The Lost Art of Cable Lacing
  Awesome discussion here, folks. Couple of things. On the issue of lacing not really being "lost," I posted this to the MAKE topic: Fair enough We use the term "lost" here with artistic license. Most of what we've covered in...
• Commented on Occult historian Mitch Horowitz, Boing Boing's latest guestblogger
  Wow! Great to see Mitch on here. Much respect. Welcome. And have fun. Guest blogging on BB is a trip....
• Favorited Eid Mubarak! on Boing Boing
• Commented on Eid Mubarak!
  Welcome Bassam and Aman! I think it's so cool that you guys are guest blogging here. Welcome. I'm Lebanese (don't let the funny Celtic name fool ya), second gen in US, raised Catholic. I haven't had much exposure to my...
• Favorited Amateur science tools and resources at Make's new Science Room on Boing Boing
• Commented on Amateur science tools and resources at Make's new Science Room
  All the more reason why a million home chem labs should bloom....
• Commented on New book about cult magazines does great job of recounting history of bOING bOING
  @Pupdog Aww. That cover was by the dearly departed Rene Cigler. I miss her. Such a sweetheart, and so talented. That was a great issue....
• Commented on Mission Control: ambient music and NASA audio
  It's cool to see comments about it being a "concentration booster" and "smoothing out the work day." That's exactly how it works for me, too. I can't listen to music with lyrics or too much going on when I write,...
• Favorited MAKE's summer challenge on Boing Boing
• Favorited Mission Control: ambient music and NASA audio on Boing Boing
• Commented on MAKE's summer challenge
  Awesome, Nicko! Send us pics!...
• Commented on Erik Davis's Internet radio show
  I had an awesome time hanging out with Erik in London, at the Equinox Festival. I'm with Gilbum. I haven't listened to Erik's show, but I'd love to listen to a radio show/podcast that dealt with these subjects with a...
• Favorited Mark Dery guestblogging on Boing Boing on Boing Boing
• Favorited Mark Dery: My Roman Holiday on Boing Boing
• Commented on Mark Dery guestblogging on Boing Boing
  Great to have Mark D on board. Always a pleasure and a thought-provocation. Hope you have fun in Rome, Mark....
• Favorited Bill Barker of Schwa: found! Alive, well, creative on Boing Boing
• Favorited Looking for Bill Barker (UPDATE: Found!) on Boing Boing
• Commented on Looking for Bill Barker (UPDATE: Found!)
  @Nosehat Oh man, you're in for a treat. Seriously psycho-active art and psycho-cultural commentary. Dosed with lots of clever, perverse humor. I still have some Schwa stickers around my house and I covet my Schwa collection. And I have a...
• Commented on Looking for Bill Barker (UPDATE: Found!)
  I'm glad you put this call out, Mark. I loved Bill and really miss him. He's an awesome guy and a great artist. The last I remember, he'd fallen in love and (if I recall correctly) was going to move...
• Commented on Goodbye
  I think you did a ridiculously great job, Joel. I'm bummed you're leaving, but I'm sure whatever it is you're on-to, it'll be awesome. Don't let the bastards wear you down......
• Commented on Cool projects on Make: Online
  I agree, Brad! I loved that game. I actually had a full set of the miniatures but sold them when we moved to our current house. I got so much money for the lot of them, it basically paid for...
• Commented on LED Life Mask
  And the image was actually taken from an article Alden wrote for Make: Online about making cool castings like this for your LED Light Brick (a project he did in MAKE, Volume 18). Here's the Make: Online how-to: http://tinyurl.com/lj4lwd...
• Commented on Office worker squid
  Becky Stern is the bomb! One of the many pleasures of working at MAKE is that I get to work with Becky Stern. And she's a cephalopodophile!...
• Favorited TV preacher proves that only the Christian god is real on Boing Boing
• Commented on Production stills from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
  Oh fuck yeah. That looks amazing to me. Can't wait....