Monthly Archives: June 2007

Interview with Sword Swallower Roderick Russell (Part 3 of 3)

WARNING: Sword swallowing is a life threatening activity. Many deaths and serious medical complications have arisen from attempting this most dangerous and demanding art form. Sword swallowing should only be attempted by a skilled, trained professional. The author of this text will not be liable or accountable for any injuries sustained by readers who are [...]

Interview with Sword Swallower Roderick Russell (part 2 of 3)

WARNING: Sword swallowing is a life threatening activity. Many deaths and serious medical complications have arisen from attempting this most dangerous and demanding art form. Sword swallowing should only be attempted by a skilled, trained professional. The author of this text will not be liable or accountable for any injuries sustained by readers who are [...]

WordPress Plug-In Featured in Blog Herald

The WordPress to MySpace Auto Crossposter plug-in that I just recently authored got a nice little mention in this week’s WordPress Wednesday column over at The Blog Herald.
People have been downloading the plug-in from all over and I’ve made several improvements over the past week as a result of user feedback and requests. I’m [...]

Interview with Sword Swallower Roderick Russell

WARNING: Sword swallowing is a life threatening activity. Many deaths and serious medical complications have arisen from attempting this most dangerous and demanding art form. Sword swallowing should only be attempted by a skilled, trained professional. The author of this text will not be liable or accountable for any injuries sustained by readers who are [...]

Wordpress to MySpace Crossposter Update

Interest in the Wordpress to MySpace Auto Crossposter continues to grow and others have now submitted their own mods to the code.
Since this seems to be a pretty hot item, I’ve just recently rewritten part of the code to be more organized and modular ( though it’s still not where I’d like it to be [...]

Eat Me, Drink Me
The Antichrist Shows His Humanity

“If anyone thought Manson was down for the count, think again.”

-Austin Scaggs
Rolling Stone

The most surprising aspect of Marilyn Manson’s latest album, Eat Me, Drink Me – his sixth studio release – is that it’s decidedly human.
Gone are the fire and brimstone theatrics, heavy production and the Satan-spawn stereotype. Eat Me, Drink Me is an [...]

WordPress to MySpace Auto Crossposting

NOTE: Newest Version is LOCATED HERE.
Everyone knows that MySpace has a terrible reputation for being a closed system and not allowing developers access to any API. As a result, those of us who run our blogs centrally on self-hosted WordPress installs, as well as many other I’m sure, face the tedious task [...]

Pricing Artwork – For the Independent Artist

My good friend Courtney over at Twisted Stitches just recently posted a great two part series on how to price your own artwork. She had the pleasure of speaking with Reed A. Prescott III, a Vermont-based artist who has succeeded in making his work very commercial, and she summarizes very well his words of [...]

Vermont and Sideshow in the New York Times

By complete coincidence, the Saturday, June 2nd edition of the New York Times featured right on their front page (web edition at least) two stories that are near and dear to my heart (being both a Vermonter and a sword swallower).

The first is a ridiculous (but I couldn’t help laughing in delight) amateur rap video [...]

Froidian Sips
Organic Iced Coffee Hits Shelves

Back in the early 90’s I had a guilty pleasure – yes I was only a young kid – of drinking a Maxwell House product called Cappio. It was a ready-to-drink iced cappucino beverage sold in supermarkets which came in a curiously large, brown tinted glass bottle that looked oddly like a “40“. [...]