Monthly Archives: October 2004

A salvo against all tourists of melancholy

This sounds likely to be as cool as it gets (in case you were wondering how cool things get).
Taking inspiration from Italian partigiani and the counter-attack of the anti-Vichyists, Hecker has issued a salvo against all tourists of melancholy, from trustafarian pseudo-leftists to the Ikea nihilists of the boboist rive droite. While some artists seem [...]

A belated funny

Okay, because I’ve already been accused of not blogging enough, and because it’s the funniest damn Presidential Debate summary I’ve seen, but mostly because TJIC made me laugh so hard I would have sent some spit flying across the room had I not got my hands up in front of my face quickly [...]

The grass is always greener

… in the private sector. How lame is this?

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - There’s a whiff of crisis in the air at the Dutch Health Ministry: It’s sitting on a pile of pot that it just can’t sell.
The Netherlands rolled out a program last year that allows patients to buy prescription marijuana at any pharmacy. Some medical [...]

True natures revealed

On procrastinating:
dff: I was going to not reply [to your email] for at least an hour, to let us get some shit done.
tjic: As if.
We’re like two winos with hangovers, promising each other that we’re never going to drink again…as we lean together to remain upright, and stagger towards the liquor store.

Installation complete

In which the famous five minute installation proves to take… five minutes. How long to do something about the horrific CSS, though?