Happy Chinese New Year!

Gong hei fat choi!

Let's celebrate the year of the ox with 60s Japanese garage rock band, Ox:


Here's some video of how they celebrated in Hong Kong in 1953.

Join the Snuggies (or Die)!

No, not "The Smoggies" - admission to this cult comes free of any environmental guilt:


Read your Stonecutters manual all comfy and anesthetized:


Also, check out this rare photo of the Snuggie shipping dock.

MLK in Comics

Read the full 1956 comic here.

Read about Ho Che Anderson's "King" graphic novel series here. And more awesome art here.

For a soundtrack, listen to the I Have A Dream Speech [right click for MP3 to full speech].

I had a dream...

...and Spider-Man and Barack Obama came to me in that dream. They told me that I have nothing to fear but our own inner nerd.

For other dreamy Super-Presidential team-ups, check this out. Clinton hits the pages of Superman, Reagan gets sent up in The Dark Knight Returns, Nixon in Watchmen, amongst a couple other gems.



Here's a couple panels from the issue, now available in stores (if you can find one):

Big Black Love

Anybody catch the premiere of season 3 of "Big Love" last night? I didn't, but the trailer for the long-awaited season looks poly-mazing! Featuring the Black Keys song, "Lies".

Er...uh, I don't live in Canada...

Hey, non-USAers, ever find yourself trying to watch the latest greatest SNL skit or catch a Howard the Duck on hulu, but then you're told by the internet police that "this video is not supported from your current location"?

Well, there's a solution: Hotspot Shield. Just download a free! simple program and it blocks your IP origin and watch away.

PC Magazine rates the program as one of the best free software programs of 2008.

The program will also protect your data from prying eyes on the public airwaves when you're on a Wi-Fi hot spot.