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Thirty Straight Years Of Flailing
What do you do when your favorite musician releases a confessional, personal, heartfelt, shitty record? You forgive him, of course, because he's Mike Watt, bassist of America's greatest band:
The Minutemen. If you never heard them, you
missed it, and if you liked them, then maybe you you started a band
yourself.
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk
at 12:20 AM on April 6, 2006
(52 comments)
Unclaimed Baggage Center
is where lost luggage goes to die...and then live again. This huge warehouse buys the stuff we leave behind by the truckload, unpacks it, and then sells it to the public in an ongoing junk sale. Items range from the
mundane to the merely
puzzling to the somewhat
disturbing (this was found ON AN AIRPLANE, for Chrissakes.) The online store cannot compare to shopping there in person. And yes, it is located in THAT Scottsboro.
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk
at 11:45 PM on January 30, 2006
(33 comments)
Chuck Palahniuk
(the author of such brawny reads as
Choke and
Fight Club) has an
online writers' workshop that has monthly assignments subject to peer review, essays on writing by Chucky P., and a real smoove interface. I'm not a big fan of the guy or his work, but his "distinction essays", which are only posted to the site for a limited time, do contain the kind of solid instruction you'd hafta pay money for at a real writers workshop. The quality of the submissions varies, but seems to me to be a bit better than most online freebie writers-circle-jerk sites. Just don't choke on the ego.
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk
at 11:10 AM on March 30, 2004
(6 comments)
Got roots?
The American Family Immigration History Center has made available online the passenger manifests for all the ships that docked at Ellis Island from 1892 to 1924. It's searchable by name, and you can look at a photostat of the actual page of the manifest. I found my great-uncle (Demetrios Calisperis, from Samos, Greece, debarked Ellis Island Nov 1907, at age 11 -- hiya, Uncle Jim!). Free to register and search. Paid membership lets you build a family scrapbook about your ancestor that can be searched by other researchers.
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk
at 11:12 AM on July 14, 2003
(9 comments)
The Simpsons
are indubitably America's first family, and since I'm spending my unemployed Friday afternoon looking for fun instead of looking for work, I thought I'd share. Find a favorite! "See my vest...." to "Ay, Caramba!" Have they lost their zing? Is it time to end (troll)
the best TV show of all time (/troll)?
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk
at 2:55 PM on June 28, 2002
(39 comments)
Southern Gothic gets downright surreal.
I'm not sure what the point of this site is, or if there is one, but as a Birminghamster, I applaud local attempts to mix fact and fiction with the brio usually reserved for articles about us in the national media.
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk
at 7:44 AM on May 16, 2002
(6 comments)
It ain't just Enron
-- This kind of pro forma reporting of "profits" is shifty, misleading, and common practice. Should us small investors be worried? Or do I need to be an accountant to know why this isn't a bad thing? And does this mean that there more Enrons out there, ready to implode in a pile of worthless paper?
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk
at 7:12 AM on January 31, 2002
(14 comments)
Indian & Pakistani ex-pats dissect world affairs,
write fiction, and discuss anything and everything under the sun. I'm a typically ignorant American, so it's illuminating to read the opinions of others much more familiar with central Asia and the Indian subcontinent than I am. Site features a high level of discourse and exemplary manners.
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk
at 1:37 PM on January 28, 2002
(6 comments)
Ian MacKaye
has been making good music for so long that it was great finally to see his picture in the NY Times. Not a very informative article, but it's a small victory for
Fugazi fans everywhere. "We're not the first, hope we're not the last..." (Requires log-in)
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk
at 8:43 AM on January 10, 2002
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