Happy Mutant Profile

nikos

Website: http://www.myspace.com/nickschulman

Bio: Sometimes writer for American Songwriter Magazine; Slide Guitarist; Philosopher with no following; quasi-gifted left-handed polymath.

Compendium of "They do it with..." one-liners

April 24, 2008 1:10pm

Nuns do it with the holy spirit.

Retro-futuristic Syd Mead illos from US Steel int'l promotional pack

March 28, 2008 2:35pm

Wow.
Thanks for exposing this exceptional flickr set Cory.
A future imagined as non-representative of a Great Collapse warms my heart.

Gary Wolf profiles Ray Kurzweil in Wired

March 27, 2008 2:20pm

There is an old (Slavic?) curse -

"May you live forever."

Yes, if you think about it, it could definitely be construed as a curse.

Possessed: a documentary about hoarders

March 10, 2008 9:59pm


In each of the 4 subjects' flats I saw a reflection of what some of my relatives do or did (in the case of my great grand parents) and of course what I do.
The feeling which surged through me at first was comfort. As in, "Yeah, alright. This is familiar - like a cozy memory from early childhood of yia yia and papu's basement in Flushing. Then, with a paradoxically sudden slowness, the sense was more of contempt, apart from the "you're already dead to me" contempt I have for my uncle - the tedious minutes, the sweat and dust covered hours, the ruinous days I'd spent at his behest sorting through this garage or that storage space or his apartment or studio. And of course a half a moment later it pits into a sickening splattering of neurons in my pre-frontal cortex, a sensation I know only too well - the tone of self recognition in an other's pathos and it's flat note self loathing. Aside from all of that garbage (pun intended) that was a powerful 30 minutes.

Documentary about avant folk

March 4, 2008 8:43am

Antifolk as far as I know is a New York thing heavily influenced by punk, or at least the punk aesthetic, Abbie Hoffman and Lenny Bruce.

Freakfolk, not a name it's practitioners gave itself, is not an urban thing influenced somewhat by psychedelica, if not, then imaginative literature, baba ram dass and does not have an apparent sense of humor. Unless there's an inside joke I'm not getting.

Saudis set to execute illiterate, beaten woman for "witchcraft"

February 22, 2008 5:22am

Aside from Bush/Pierce family ties, I still wonder why our war of terror does not extend to the holdings of the house of Saud.

Can't we at least send a delta team or fund an elite mujahadeen team to get her the hell out of there?

Backwards singing video with comedy reverse-film effects

December 26, 2007 11:59am

Nu! Did anyone else think he was singing the "Internationale" till the mid point?

First/Worst: Online Nickname?

December 10, 2007 11:42pm

Commander in Queef...I'm sorry Portland Indymedia.

C.I.A. destroyed interrogation videotapes

December 6, 2007 9:08pm

The idea that central intelligence uses torture to extract intel from individuals is not new.
Of course torture is likely among the worst ways of gathering valid intel - what strikes me as odd is the leak.
Who benefits?
IOW, who will most likely respond most forcefully to this information coming to light?
And again, who benefits?

Amnesty's Unsubscribe Me video reenacts CIA stress-position torture

November 22, 2007 11:45am

The ONLY Country Convicted of the International Crime of State Active Terrorism By the World Courts:
The Good Ole U S of A .

Top ten most viewed pages on Wikipedia and Conservapedia

November 21, 2007 11:25am

@#1:
You took the words right outta my brain pan.

Pretenders to the "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" throne

November 20, 2007 1:01pm

I can't believe we use heat pasturized milk to make butter in this country.
It's not really butter if you remove the moo-ey goodness with 138 °C (250 °F) worth of heat.
Screw the protazoa!

Memories processed seven times faster than reality

November 20, 2007 12:50pm

When do we get to see movies of our dreams?
I'm itching to see what happens when the unconscious becomes conscious in its totality.
If the hippocampus could process all of that information at once as one long continuous projection transferred via some kind of wetware/hardware interface we could slow it down and watch it with popcorn, or with an air sickness bag, whichever is most fitting.

DIY wiretap kit for kids

November 20, 2007 12:39pm

Is our children learnin'?