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- Gamefest and The Art of Video Games.
A couple of months back the American Art Museum (part of the Smithsonian) announced that it was collecting ideas for an art exhibit that would reside in DC until September
- Dope Stars Inc: Ultrawired
Last week word about the album Ultrawired from a band called Dope Stars Inc. exploded onto Twitter . DSI, as they are called (because 140 characters enforces a certain amo
- Mythic Faire 2011.
While few people will admit to it, just about everyone I've ever met seems to hold one sort of myth or another close to their hearts. Some are die-hard fans of Buffy the V
- Grant Morrison is working with My Chemical Romance?
Take cover, everyone. (EDIT: Wow, that's huge. Width and height tags edited so it doesn't torpedo my blog theme anymore.)
- Better late than never: The Next HOPE
I got home from work early last Thursday afternoon after putting in a couple of hours at work to wrap things up and ensure that nothing would crash, blow up, or spontaneou
- Pictures from the Amanda Palmer ninja gig, 16 June 2010.
A couple of weeks ago I had a unique opportunity to attend one of Amanda Palmer 's ninja gigs. If you've not heard of them they're rare-ish but growing in notoriety. Basic
- Live at Stacy's - Catherine Asaro and Donald Wolcott!
Please boost the signal - link to this post everywhere! I realize this is a bit late, I've been laid low by a sinus infection, but thankfully a few of us have been getting
- ASCAP raising money to fight the new culture.
One of the cornerstones of the Internet is making information available to whomever wants it for low or no cost. Case in point, the TCP/IP stack within the operating syste
- Sophie Lancaster memorial album released.
I've spent a couple of weeks trying to figure out what I wanted to write about this, partly because it hits so close to home. I quietly followed the murder of Sophie Lanca
- Peter Steele, RIP.
Every once in a while, rumors that Peter Steele, frontman and bassist of the band Type O Negative had died would circulate through the Net; time and again, those rumors wo
- Paul and Storm bring the Squid to Birchmere.
Earlier this week while the usual suspects were at the Birchmere for Henry Rollins , I noticed that a couple of musicians that I wanted to hear, namely, Jonathan Coulton w
- Writing about music now considered identical to pirating it.
It seems like everything is being steadily reduced to one of three categories these days: terrorism, child pornography, or piracy. Mention of any of them will stop intelli
- Snowpocalypse shenanigans.
The DC metroplex is still snowed under, so it's been a pretty slow day for everyone. Around the time that the snowfall slowed to a manageable level (near the end of it, ac
- Review: Cyberpunk by Colin Timothy Gagnon.
Yesterday afternoon while backstroking around in the Olympic-sized swimming pool of RSS feeds that is my Google Reader account I stumbled across a link in the blog Cyberpu
- A few from the media front.
Earlier today, Lyssa and I arranged to reserve a couple of tables just behind the dance floor at The State Theatre in Fairfax to have dinner and catch a double-header conc
- Consumer media is losing its gods-damned mind.
Every morning I pop open Google News in one of my browser tabs and mainline the top 100 stories to get a sense for what’s happening in the world and what general sort of d
- New Cruxshadows video: Immortal
The Cruxshadows have just released a music video for the song Immortal in their infrequent podcast, and I think it’s well worth the time to watch it even if you’re not a f
- You're probably wondering where I've been lately.
By and large, work has been, well, work. Lots of hours at the office, lots of hours stuck in traffic sweating like Kevin Mitnick during a traffic stop. When I haven't be
- The King of Pop has passed.
It's official - Michael Jackson is dead at the age of 50 . Jackson was rushed into an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles, California in full cardiac arrest and was prono
- Two warmup posts before I try to set my head straight.
I'll spare everyone my usual apology for not posting anything lately and jump right into a catch-up post as a warmup for a longer, hopefully more interesting entry later t
- EDITED (20081101): Lyssa and I are now married.
To preface what I'm about to write, I never thought that I would have missed so many details pertaining to what happened a few days ago. Shortly before the wedding, Lyssa
- Seven million industrial songs can't be wrong.
Who hasn't sampled The Exorcist 3 at least once for their music?
- Saloncon 2008: Adventure! Excitement! Romance! Sleep deprivation!
I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last Thursday night due to getting ready for Saloncon 2008 and general problems getting a decent amount of rest these days. I think that
- The week, not just the weekend in review.
A couple of weeks ago, one of the trailers that was shown before the movie Iron Man was for a theatrical showing of the live-action movie based upon a popular manga and an
- Title restored - so how did I spent my weekend, anyway?
Unfortunately, I spent much of last Friday asleep, recovering after a routine filling went south and turned into an emergency root canal. I don't know what does it about t
- It seems that I'll be in town for a while, so I'll actually be able to post.
This is week four of my "three weeks out, one week in" work cycle, so I'll have much more constant net.access for at least a couple of days. I may as well take the time to
- Explosive post queue flush in three.. two.. one....
As one might expect, it's been a busy couple of days (a week, really), which has kept me from being able to post anything. I got back from Philly around 1700 EST5EDT last
- EDITED: Concert report: Cesium-137, ThouShaltNot, and Information Society at the Trocadero in Philadelphia.
(obligatory disclaimer: Many links reference my Amazon Associates account.) On Friday evening, our good friend Derek Pegritz drove down from Pennsylvania to visit Lyssa an
- This brightens my day somewhat.
Information Society's going on tour in 2008. Kurt, Paul, and James got back together after the release of Synthesizer and they're hitting the road. Word on the street has
- The Cruxshadows strike again!
Heartfelt congratulations to the Cruxshadows for striking the music world like a bolt of lightning - they've taken the #1 position on the Hot Singles Dance Chart once agai
- I see no C-walk here.
MC Frontalot is at it again, this time celebrating the release of his new nerdcore hip-hop album, Secrets From the Future . In fact, he's released his first music video, a
- Look what I got in the mail this afternoon.
Thanks, guys!
- Kite Day 2007, and other things.
Yesterday afternoon, downtown Washington, DC saw a number of brightly coloured rainbow kites of all shapes and sizes added to it sky for LGBT Kite Day 2007 , the local LGB
- The RIAA demands a cut from cover bands and coffee shops.
With stuff like this going on, you have to wonder if the mainstream music industry has pretentions to replacing the Mafia in its business practices. It seems that the majo
- Situation report: DC
Jean and Chandler went home early yesterday morning, something that's taking Lyssa and I a while to get used to. They're almost like family to us, and it feels weird to co
- Images from the Skinny Puppy concert on Monday.
Here are the pictures I took at the Skinny Puppy concert on Monday. The first dozen or so are those yahoos I've been calling Attack of the Cyborg Hamsters . I'll be making
- "We'll make sure they get paid, even though they don't work for us..."
A couple of weeks ago, the RIAA managed to get a law passed that requires royalties to be paid to them for all music streamed across the Net, regardless of the reason or o
- So I finally got around to getting my hands on _Oscillator_.
Long-time readers of my website know that I've been a fan of the band Information Society for years on end - ever since their first big single ( What's On Your Mind? (Pure
- Synthpop music videos.
Todd of A Different Drum was nice enough to post a YouTube playlist of music videos of some of the synthpop acts his label works with, such as Leiahdorus, De/Vision, and C
- Weekend? There was a weekend and nobody told me?
It wasn't really like that, but it's my attempt at a silly subject line for today. Despite the large amounts of antibiotics and analgesics running through my biosystems in
- The RIAA is at it again - they want you responsible for your network link, regardless of who uses it.
Not too long ago, a woman named Debbie Foster was sued by Capitol Records (RIAA) for copyright infringement because someone was using her network access account to exchang
- Unabashed pimping of a musician.
Mark Nicholas, formerly known as Cosmicity, has officially released his long-awaited debut album, entitled Duchess 33 .
- An interesting method of data visualisation.
Data visualisation is a process in which the bits of a given data field are displayed in a graphical format to help the analyst find patterns or anomalies in the data. For
- Wrapping gifts to the sounds of Lovecraftian horror.
An old chewing gum commercial says "Double your pleasure, double your fun," but I don't think this is exactly what they had in mind.. one hannah Kersey, age 23 from the UK
- It's now 41 degrees Farenheit, and trying to rain. What gives?!
This morning, after arriving at the Metro station closest to my office and climbing the escalator (I need exercise, what can I say?) to the platform closest the street, I
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