In a nod to my good friend Cliff over at spiralbound.net, I here share a story picked up via the Associated Press entitled Washington Official Held in Coffee Mug Attack.
Fire commissioners Allen Yanity and Jim Bosch – both of Lakebay, Washington and aged 71 and 64, respectively – are in the midst of a year-long [...]
Cryonics – the act of cryopreserving human remains for possible future resuscitation – is the subject of a new …wait for it… children’s book.
Though the practice of cryonics has been going strong for forty years now and has seen treatment – however scientifically unsound those treatments have been – in several Hollywood movies and many [...]
Regular readers will know that I make my living as a performing artist, swallowing swords and reading minds all across the country.
image copyright 2007, Amanda Bohart
As advertised on this blog just last week, I recently appeared on a number of radio programs to promote a show that was sponsored by Clear Channel Communications [...]
Wandering through a small bookstore in Burlington, Massachusetts when I was a mere fifteen years old, I stumbled by sheer happenstance across an intriguing book that prove to be the most influential text of my formative teenage years, and which would lead me to untold intellectual treasures in the years to come.
Little did I know [...]
Just a reminder that I will be appearing at the Pickelner Arena in Williamsport, PA this Sunday, April 22nd for two free shows courtesy of our sponsors Clear Channel Communications and Immix Wireless.
Tune into KISS 102.7FM, BILL (95.5 and 95.3 FM) or VARIETY 97.7FM for the details. You can also hear me on [...]
Of all the bizarre things that I do, places I go and pictures I take, I found it surprising that one of my most popular pictures and the subject of the most frequent comments has been the photo in which I appear with Ron Jeremy. Seems that whether folks admit it or not, there [...]
Regular readers will know that I make my living as a professional sword swallower on theater stages across the country. As I have only around fifty active, living colleagues in my esoteric profession, general press mentions of my art are small in comparison to, well, just about every other form of performance art. [...]
Though the new Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero does not officially drop (in the U.S.) until April 17th, the extremely punk-style* marketing has been in full swing since at least February – and it’s turning out to be an incredibly clever, engaging and effective marketing scheme at that!
Reznor himself reacts strongly against the claim [...]
Back in January, classical violinist and Avery Fisher Prize recipient Joshua Bell did something decidedly uncharacteristic of a Grammy Award winning musician – he donned jeans, a t-shirt and a baseball cap and took to the streets to play for tip money.
With over a dozen recordings under his belt, countless appearances with the most prestigious [...]
Back in late January when I ported my blog over to WordPress and began using my friend Casey’s bsuite plug-in, I ran into an issue involving excerpted entries on the index page and the inability to display tags as a result. I needed a solution, couldn’t find one, so I wrote one. Below [...]
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.
Mr. Vonnegut suffered [...]
While the Technorati profile for this blog is tagged with the term cryonics, I have written precious little on the subject herein. Therefore, in an effort to stay true to my tags, I give you a bit of history.
Over a decade ago I granted an interview to the French ‘zine La Spirale, at the [...]
Holiday activities this past weekend left me with an abundance of brightly colored hard-boiled eggs and not a clue as to what to do with them all. So in the grand tradition of Woody Allen, I set out on a search for the world’s perfect egg salad recipe.
My palate being the decidedly adventurous that [...]