June 30, 2009

A Google AdWords Eulogy

The AdWords on this post are perhaps the most compelling proof that Google has become too aware. All Google needed was three, three-line ads to describe a man who lived and died as one of the most paradoxical, complicated, and polarizing/polarized figures in modern American popular culture.
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Mind. Blowned.

Also, I'd like to think that the Bing ad is a kind of meta-tribute to eccentric behavior.

June 24, 2009

Ugly Babby?

Ugly-babby
Whoa CNN Quick Vote. Whoa.

June 18, 2009

Print is Dead

Concept artwork for a magazine focusing on true crime journalism. Twitter, you did this to me.

FULLBLEED

June 05, 2009

Walk Away

I'm having a touch of the Noonan the more I read about David Carradine accidental death (or incredibly ballsy suicide). To wit:DC_NOOO

I'm not trying to kill anyone's buzz, nor am I suggesting that they be banished to the closet or shameful fringes of that feed CSI writer's rooms, but can't David Carradine's kinky knots routine be something that he takes quietly to the grave, leaving unspoiled the precious Universal mystery we all crave.


Seriously, replace "torture memo" with "David Carradine's sex practices" and Peggy and I are reading from the same script. 

See what unplanned trouble this disclosure hath wrought? Noonan and I are in agreement!

Never Forget My Birthday

Birthday-Biden

Sadly, this email did not confirm Joe Biden's promise to remember my birthday; it was a solicitation for a re-occurring contribution. I haven't been that disappointed by an email preview since Obama's "Aaron - As a thank you for your contribution, I'm going to appoint you..." email. Spoiler alert: my "appointment" was to the role of Chief "Team Obama" Fundraiser for my apartment.

June 01, 2009

"Stay 'til the end of the party"

Sunday Night, Really Real from Aaron Kraus on Vimeo.

From Saturday to You


Macy's
Originally uploaded by MBIMOTMOG
In my head, all I can hear is Erykah Badu's "Bag Lady" playing over and over. And that lift from "Xxplosive" is so so nice to hear on a sunny Saturday.

May 28, 2009

4 Stops, 800x


Yeah, why not.

May 20, 2009

46 Days Later...

Sprint

Either Sprint knows something I don't (e.g., a new month is being released between May and June), or this widget is pretty accurately representing the Sprint experience I knew and loved until my contract expired and I jumped to T-Mobile.

May 07, 2009

One or the other...

Today's Lunch Salon convened around the contemplation of the following options:

Would you rather be a piece of garbage carried by a gentle breeze though a densely populated city or a piece of a corrugated tin roof being flung on hurricane-force winds across a great empty flatland?

Other choices that were contemplated:

  • Blue Line train or a CTA bus?
  • Gifted clown in an unpopular circus or Sideshow freak in popular carnival?

Clearly, the work of the Lunch Salon is critical to the betterment of society.