Five years ago, the dinosaurs of Ryan North's
Dinosaur Comics discussed writing a short story about a "Machine of Death" that would predict your fate. It sparked a
forum discussion, which snowballed into
a book project headed by North, Matthew Bennardo, and
David Malki to create an anthology of short stories about the Machine of Death. Stories were
submitted*,
selected, and
illustrated. Alas, no one was willing to publish an anthology that didn't feature Stephen King, Dave Eggers, Neil Gaiman or Nick Hornby. So they
published it themselves and set out a challenge for their fans:
"We want Machine of Death to become a Number One bestseller [on amazon.com] for exactly one day — October 26." And it happened! Meanwhile,
unbeknownst to our heroes, October 26 was
also the release date of a new book by a fellow called Glenn Beck (if you've not heard of him,
a quick Google seems to indicate that he’s some sort of Ron Popeil-like infomercial huckster). And he's
not happy about missing out on the #1 spot.
posted by alopez
on Oct 29, 2010 -
74 comments
Right Wing Radio Duck "Donald's life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house payments. As his frustration turns into despair Donald discovers a seemingly sympathetic voice coming from his radio named Glenn Beck. "
posted by Arthur Phillips Jones Jr
on Oct 2, 2010 -
52 comments
Michael Scheuer, the former chief of the CIA's "bin Laden Station", and the initially anonymous author of
Imperial Hubris, pulls an
O'Reilly on
yesterday's Glenn Beck broadcast:
"The only chance we have as a country have right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States [...] only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them [...] with as much violence as necessary."
[more inside]
posted by WCityMike
on Jul 1, 2009 -
96 comments
Beck intends to record cover versions of selected albums in a day, unrehearsed, with guest musicians and then to release them on his website. Pitchfork announced it yesterday
here. The first song is
Sunday Morning.
posted by tawny
on Jun 19, 2009 -
48 comments
Founded in 1947 and surviving today both as a relic of the psychedelic 1960s and a continually groundbreaking troupe, the
Living Theatre found a national spotlight during the late 1960s and early 1970s as
a "nomadic touring ensemble" performing anarchist, sexually-liberated, audience-participatory, collectively-created, sometimes nude or semi-nude productions like
Paradise Now, the
Legacy of Cain, and
Frankenstein, under the direction of founders
Julian Beck and
Judith Malina. Beck died in 1985, but Malina, now 81, remains both
an inspiration and a leading actress (currently starring in the company's
Maudie and Jane).
posted by beagle
on Feb 6, 2008 -
3 comments
Hell Yes... It's time for some Friday Flash Fun! (Well sort of, since even though this video was probably created in Flash, it's delivered in crap-tacular streaming format) Anyway, everyone's favorite white-boy (or
"guero") hip-hop superstar is back in action with a new video [
rm] [
asx] for his
forthcoming album. The video was created by Flash maestro
Mumbleboy, and for those that found Beck's
last outing a little vanilla for their tastes, it signals a welcome return to the man's
Chunky Monkey roots. Enjoy!
posted by idontlikewords
on Jan 28, 2005 -
18 comments
10th anniversary of Mellow Gold,
Beck's first major label release.
Marked by streaming of
entire album. Over the next two weeks there will be more about the history and making of Mellow Gold, featuring interviews from those associated with Beck and the record.
[Registration required but they are quiet happy with a bogus email address]
Learn how to play along with Beck
here and read lyrics to and story behind all his
songs, including
Loser '....I started the song by writing the verses, and attempting to rap like Chuck D [of Public Enemy]. When [Carl] played it back I thought, ‘Man, I’m the worst rapper in the world—I’m just a loser.’
posted by kenaman
on Apr 21, 2004 -
27 comments
Martin Beck's Last Ten Years: How interesting to be able to look at a painter's
work year by year: patterns and even stories seem to develop, disappear and change before (and after)
our eyes. Are there any other good chronologically-arranged artist's websites out there? Or do painters habitually avoid them to prevent the detection of similarities and obsessions?
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Dec 26, 2003 -
5 comments
New
Beck song
here.
New
Weezer video (with the Muppets)
here (it's a RealMedia file).
New
Coldplay single
here in WindowsMedia and
here in RealAudio.
Feel free to argue the artistic merits of these three performers as well as whether this post is worthy of a front page post in the thread (like you people wouldn't do that anyay).
posted by Reggie452
on Jul 10, 2002 -
34 comments
