Archive for August, 2008

Foghat

23rd August 2008 by RPorter 4 Comments

These guys are playing at Sweet Corn Festival (hey, I live in the Midwest) eight blocks from my house right now.
Warning: really long seventies-style guitar jam ahead.

Well, some of them are. Foghat has had a pretty high mortality rate over the years. But their mustaches still live on.
Random Jabber

For the always charming

21st August 2008 by RPorter 1 Comment

I don’t really know
vonandmoggy
 personally, but I’m always charmed by their LJ. For that reason, and because I’ve plugging my own spouse’s stuff a bit lately, I encourage you all (yes, you, and the other one) to take a look at the book Von has recently published.
It’s nice stuff. Plus you’ll be doing a very [...]

Told you so.

17th August 2008 by RPorter 2 Comments

‘Evil soldier gobbling baby machine raaahhhh!!!’ robot, originally uploaded by Alicia Yeah.

See previous post
Image Making

Robo-Post

17th August 2008 by Robert Porter No Comments

fortune telling robot, originally uploaded by Paul Keller.
Flickr’s “blog this” feature makes it way too easy to do stuff like this. There are over nine million images available under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. a quick search for “robots” yields over six thousand results. The fourth from the top is this.
Paul Keller’s original caption [...]

OK, I can understand a bowling alley …

10th August 2008 by RPorter 4 Comments

But does the White House really need its own interrogation room?
Oh, they do? Well, all right then. I’m sure they know best.
(image from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, natch)
terror