I’ve been meaning to post about some of my favorite non-knitting blogs out there. These three are fairly popular, I don’t comment or interact with the writers I just love reading their posts.

I Blame the Patriarchy.
Favorite post so far: Twisty’s Injustice Corner but pretty much all her posts are acerbic, hilarious, and true.

Defective Yeti.
Favorite post so far: Xyzzy Although the Bad Review Revue is always fun

Yuppie Punk,
Favorite post so far: a tie between Serial Killer Art and Rock Star Art Revue

329 newspaper front pages from 41 countries presented alphabetically.

note: it didn’t seem to like firefox much so I had to use ie.

And LMAO Bush and Kerry…as Sims 2

including a rare commemorative pen for the ‘1994 OJ Slow Speed Car Chase’

On the Road

Big Things of a Big Country (Canadian)

Gallery of Huge Beings

Great Big Stuff (that you can buy)

Muffler Men Museum

Petroliana- collectibles related to old gas stations

Road Food

Roadside America

Roadside Peek

Society for Commercial Archeology

Stuck on Stuckeys

Texas Roadside Icons

World’s Largest Roadside Attractions

Themes

American Sign Museum

Bridesmaid Dresses from Hell

Candy Wrapper Museum

Museum of Menstruation

Tacky Mail

Thrift Store Art

Misc

Julie’s Tacky Treasures

RetroCrush

Tacky Living

World of Kitsch

Food & Shopping

Archie McPhee

Gallery of Regrettable Food

Oriental Trading Co

Rhino

Had kind of a hectic week but I have a few links of interest. The good news is there’s only one more wedding to go this summer and it’s in town. Hopefully I can refrain from snide comments this time. It’ll be a challenge though - the next one has a disney aladdin theme or something. I totally didn’t mean that “Karaoke wedding” comment to be mean I swear but when the groom is handed a microphone and breaks into song during the ceremony he’s kinda asking for it. Anyway…

Art-

Ak47 - bimonthly online art photography magazine

The Magic of Images - Word and Picture in a Media Age by Camille Paglia

Insects in Album Art - Cody will love this

The Candy Wrapper Museum

Suicide Girls - punk rock pinups - so now I feel both fat AND uncool.

Mr Picassohead

Books / Language-

American Rhetoric - that powerful instrument of error and deceit.

Books on MP3

Interesting English Language Trivia

The Occult - Rare books exhibition

A page of Ulysses a day

The Web’s #1 Axe in my head page

Movies-

Counter-Culture programming - seeing political messages where they may or may not be. Twain wouldn’t approve. I have a vague theory myself about those lovey happy christmasy movies where the cynical businessperson becomes domesticated (like the new Stepford Wives, Family Man, or any Scroogish movie) are pushing the resigned-family-consumer agenda but I rarely take my own theories seriously.

Defamer - bitchy Hollywood

Music-

Bach Radio

Indie Jazz

Score, Baby - your guide to cult soundtracks of the 60s, 70s, and beyond

Losing my Ramones - is it me or have they gotten more media attention since the deaths and illnesses than they ever did before?

Trunkload of Trouble - incomplete indie pop encyclopedia

Pets-

Animal Attraction and Date My Pet - no creepy bestiality jokes please. This is a new trend in online dating sites for people with pets. Lemme say this much - if I were single I could get TONS of dates hanging out at stores and coffee shops with my dog.

Politics-

some of these are old, sorry

The Living Room Candidate - compendium of presidential ads on television from 1952 - 2000

Making Hay Out of Straw Men - and my favorite philosophical fallacies reference

Nader on the cover of American Conservative magazine?

American torture, American porn - the success of “The Passion” and the fascination with Abu Ghraib are linked somewhere in a dark corner of the basement of American psyche? - Also, the Stanford Prison Experiment and Stanley Milgram’s studies.

In Other News-

I can have ketchup and fries and that’s considered two servings of vegetables?

I’ve had Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer song stuck in my head for DAYS now. What does this mean?

Today in Alternate History

hey sweetie why don’t I have any socks to wear to work tonight?

oh I got caught up doing some, um, work on the computer. sorry.

feminist note: he usually does his own socks but I sweetly volunteered to do laundry before he went to bed this morning.

June 25th has been announced as the release date. The trailer looks interesting. I still haven’t made it all the way through Bowling for Columbine yet it just depresses the shit outta me.

The 5000 dollar puppy pagoda pales in comparison

Maybe we should move to South Korea instead and become gaming superstars? But oh lordy the plumbing I saw there. Esh.

An open source travel guide - Contribute!

Guess which song has been covered the most.

hehehe

venus { women in music, art, film, fashion, d.i.y. culture }

“Turns out, I was just incredibly happy to be alive,” said Cushman. What a great story.

Take an imaginary vacation for a few minutes

The current ethos in the United States of America is all to do with surface and nothing to do with substance. It doesn’t matter that Britney Spears has nothing to say and is about as deep as a birdbath. It matters that she has cute tits, and that’s all that matters. She doesn’t sing in concert; none of them do. Those are samples. Push a button, out comes the vocal. Do you ever notice, when you’re listening to them in a live concert — any of them, Janet Jackson, any of the rest of them — that they’re not breathing heavy? Even though they’re dancing like crazy. That’s because you’re not hearing what they’re singing. You’re hearing a tape.
-David Crosby in the frontline special The Way the Music Died

The Flannery O’Connor library

**totally offensive but interesting** The Racial Slur Database

Bill Owens Photographer

International Business Culture, Business Etiquette, Customs and Protocol

A collection of childhood beliefs

So you’d like to…go insurgent / alternative country / no depression

Ettiquette Hell

Some are probably familiar with this comic strip from independant newspapers like Albuquerque’s Alibi, Birmingham’s Black & White, or Atlanta’s Creative Loafing but I didn’t know there was a website for Slow Wave. Dreams are hilarious material anyway and this guy makes them seem more absurdly funny.