Burgled in Philly on The Bygone Bureau is a crime story with some quirky details.

A word about the machine guns: one of them is mine, the other one is Matt’s, and they were for decoration. They were functional and we had ammunition, but they weren’t really for home defense or hunting. We thought they looked badass hanging on the wall — and they did.

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If the question is, "Would I watch 'Wastelander Panda'?" The answer is yes. If the question is, "Would I have to wait for my wife to be away to be able to watch it?" The answer is also yes.
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The tale of the last remaining panda in a post-apocalyptic wasteland."




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Here are Glenn Danzig's Yelp reviews. As good as Cormac McCarthy's.

"If this place was any shittier and more unoriginal, it'd be called "The Misfits with Michael Graves"."

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Whenever I travel by plane I become furious at the different things we have to do in the name of security. The TSA has a hard job, to be sure, and they get a lot of criticism. That said, the ban on liquids and having to take our shoes off impact... Well, these arguments have been made before. I've always noticed the first class line that lets travelers with more expensive tickets skip to the head of the line. Usually when I notice this, I'm filled with a white rage that dissipates by the time I get where I'm going and I forget to look up why this is. Turns out that first class passengers get to skip the TSA line because...the TSA isn't responsible for the TSA line, the airlines are. This is, obviously, bullshit. If the TSA wanted to dictate a policy in this regard they could. In any case, I guess it's good to know the answer, even if it is just as infuriating as most of airport security.

The T.S.A., whenever it is called on the carpet (which is often) about the two-tiered system it countenances, responds with the same piece of casuistry. The rich are scanned the same way as everyone else, the T.S.A. insists, but the formation of the queues themselves is not our department. “That real estate in front of the checkpoint is owned by the airlines,” one spokeswoman told USA Today in 2006. (The law is not crystal clear. It gives supervisory responsibility for the entire airport to a T.S.A. “federal security director.”)

All sports trash talk should be done with images from The Wire.


Original images by Jake's friend, Jake, and Jamie.

Gosh, this is sad news. The label that was home at one point or another to Screeching Weasel, Green Day, Avail, Rancid, and Operation Ivy, among others, stopped putting out new music in 2005, and since then has struggled to right the ship. Unfortunately, losing their distributor, CD printer, and mail order provider in the span of a year was too much to overcome. This is a microcosm of something, but really the label kind of died in 2005 when they gambled on new bands with money owed to the higher earning older bands. They lost and thus lost the rights to Green Day and Op Ivy's back catalog. The specifics aren't clear in their blog post, but it looks like their sending everything left over back to the bands. Here's an interview with Lookout Records co-founder, Larry Livermore.

Lookout Records will be closing its doors over the next few months. Most people that are reading this know that the label stopped releasing material towards the end of 2005. It was then that Lookout ended its long relationships with Green Day, Operation Ivy and a few other artists. That development meant significantly scaling down the business, which included letting the staff go and moving from the label's Berkeley headquarters and warehouse into a small office.

It wasn't easy to keep catalog items in print and that became especially challenging when our primary compact disc manufacturer and our distribution partner Lumberjack-Mordam went out of business unexpectedly. Having our physical distributor and a manufacturer go belly up disrupted our sales, meant a significant loss of income, and caused inventory and accounting problems. The next year when our mail order partner, Little Type, went out of business, Lookout was also dealt another significant blow. We did our best to resolve the issued caused by these developments but both ultimately amounted to a lot more work and severely impacted income.

Not only does the Traveling Wilburys song Tweeter and the Monkey Man mention the titles of 8 Bruce Springstein songs, it also mentions 2 additional songs released AFTER the album came out. The songs are: "Stolen Car", "Mansion On The Hill", "Thunder Road", "State Trooper", "Factory", "The River", "Lion's Den", "Jersey Girl", "Lion's Den", and "Paradise".

Additionally, the Wiki surmises that Tweeter is a male to female transsexual, which I'd never thought about before.

I like watching every year this to try to imagine what it was like 50 years ago, and it's practically impossible.

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Kottke posted this 'that's what she said' classifier by Daniel Rapp. Since I'm simple, and don't really understand how to read Github, I don't know quite what it does, but when I saw it, I knew what I had to do. Humor is complicated. It's hard to know what's funny, so in order to help you out, I came up with this little tool to help you know if you should say, "That's what she said" after a joke (assuming you're not Michael Scott). My friend Joe helped with the code.

So there you have it. Now you know whether it's OK to add, 'That's what she said' to the end of a sentence.

This is Chris Bryan's latest video. This, more than other slow motion surfing videos shot on a Phantom, scared the shit out of me. There's something so menacing about waves so big moving so slowly. Good use of M83 on the soundtrack.

This day at Teahupoo- Aug 27th 2011 during the Billabong Pro waiting period is what many are calling the biggest and gnarliest Teahupoo ever ridden. Chris Bryan was fortunate enough to be there working for Billabong on a day that will go down in the history of big wave surfing. The French Navy labeled this day a double code red prohibiting and threatening to arrest anyone that entered the water.
Kelly Slater described the day by saying "witnessing this was a draining feeling being terrified for other people's lives all day long, it's life or death. Letting go of that rope one time can change your life and not many people will ever experience that in their life."

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