So, if you don’t follow me on twitter, or you’re not my friend in real life, you might not know that I recently started getting into roller derby!  It all started when Chino’s old roommate (who is a referee) invited us to our first bout this past summer.  It was a double header so we [...]

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I’ll admit, the picture above from Johnny Cupcakes’ blog inspired this post on varsity jackets.  I’m not really talking the high school kind, either.  Think varsity jacket mixed with a motorcycle gang jacket.  It had completely slipped from my mind that the straight edge varsity jackets ever, at one point, existed.  This website is apparently [...]

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My very dear and handsome friend Luc Rioual runs a label/press/infernal think tank with some friends of his and they just recently put out their most ambitious project yet.  With only a few weeks notice, they put together a limited edition 12″ copy of “The Three Secrets of  Fatima,” the most recent EP from Connecticut’s [...]

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All this talk of Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are is getting me so psyched!  This was one of my favorite books as a child.  The film is slated to drop the day before my 21st birthday, I couldn’t be more excited.  Furthermore, now that I’m studying for a BFA I’ve [...]

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So I have my schedule somewhat figured out, and one class I’m taking is a letterpress class at Kallemeyn Press in Brooklyn. Not my teacher, but Earl Kallemeyn, who owns the shop was talking about the history of letterpress and how skilled Japanese pressmen were often tattoo artists—that the history of tattooing is [...]

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