June 30, 2009 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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Tattooist Mister Cartoon began his career as a muralist and graffiti writer during the ’80s. However, he gained notoriety for his treatment of street culture. Through his use of black and grey tattoos, Mark Machado, otherwise known as Cartoon, retains a Latino, West Coast aesthetic that has grown popular to platinum artists, including Missy Elliot, Justin Timberlake and Dr. Dre. He is one half of the creative force behind Joker Brand Clothing, a hip hop, tattoo inspired line and is also a
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By Graham Rae. 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day . “My generation is zero/I never made it as a working class hero” - Billie Joe Armstrong. Let’s face it, Green Day are an unfortunate phenomenon at best. They came to world prominence in 1994, shortly after Kurt Cobain had blown his head off. The kids of America (and, by extension, the rest of the American-electronically-colonized world) needed a bit of comic relief after this grim (or hilarious, depending on your view of Cobain) mus
June 29, 2009 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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Back in the halcyon days of my youth, I spent countless hours the way I suspect many only children spent countless of their hours: running around the neighborhood aimlessly looking for fun. I was particularly fond of taking my bike down to the zoo in Riverside Park, just a block from my house, where a curious child like myself could find all manner of fauna indigenous to Wichita- which was basically a couple of ducks and a beaver named Webster. But eventually I became jaded with the constant w
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This is a listing, with some comments, of books that arrived in La Casa Hornswoggler last week, primarily those mailed to me for review. I know I won't manage to review everything, so I do these lists to give a little attention to all of the books. And, as always, I appreciate comments from anyone who knows more about any of these books than I do. And I'll start this week with a novel I probably should have read by now, but haven't -- Emma Bull's Bone Dance . It was originally published in
June 28, 2009 // Posted by: Content Keyword RSS // Category:
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Today, the Parthenon temple that watches over Athens is a pure, white building, dazzlingly bright on sunny days against the deep blue sky. But it wouldn’t have looked anything like this in ancient Greek times. Researchers at the British Museum announce today that they have detected tiny traces of blue paint on the building’s sculptures – suggesting that the temple’s statues and friezes would have been not stark white, but a riot of colour. I’ve just written a short story on the work for New Sc