BP: The Gift That Keeps on Giving (Oil and Coffee)

This is brilliant. That is all. Related articles by Zemanta BP disaster update: BP spills coffee, birds "cooking" to death in Gulf oil, June 12 protest (boingboing.net) BP Oil Spill Response Parodies Flood YouTube [VIDEOS] (mashable.com)

Album Review: Nevermore – Obsidian Conspiracy

Nevermore - Obsidian Conspiracy

Once upon an MP3-eary, while I worked, weak and weary, Over many a deprecated code and compiled kernel’s core While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly double bass came a tapping, As if rapid machine gun rapping, rapping at my eardrum’s door. “Tis ass kickery,” I muttered, “slapping at my eardrum’s door – Only this and [...]

The Great Douche Debate of Big Design 2010

I'm Not Ignorant.

As I stood on stage at the Big Design Conference, I had no idea the trouble brewing on the back row. Sitting back there was Giovanni Gallucci, the social media expert. He came in at some point after I started. He knows Dave Curlee and Dave said to him, "Oh man, Keith called you out." [...]

In Which I Give Blogger Advice

Alison's Real Spelling

Image by TerryJohnston via Flickr Over at Snipe.net, Alison Gianotto (a.k.a. @snipeyhead ) thinks she's all that and a bag of chips on the shoulder. She went a long rant about bloggers giving advice about blogging. Clearly Alison has some kind of bone to pick with douchebaggers everywhere. She might as well have dropped an [...]

63: Patti Smith – Wave

Patti Smith - Wave

Patti Smith is weird. Everybody knows that including Patti. But she is that kind of weird that makes me wish I could sit around and drink with her and let her rattle on with her poetry. I had two of her albums when I was young. Patti Smith's Wave (1979) is my favorite above Horses. [...]

Chicago-Style Italian Beef in DFW

Mmmmmm, Italian Beef

Since I moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth area from Chicago, one thing I've missed is Chicago food, specifically pizza and Italian beef. I found a couple of Chicago food places. Near me in Keller, there was a place called Little Joe's Pizza. But in true Chicago style, the owner ended up in jail. Other notable [...]

Just Who Do You Think You Are?

I think I'm @suredoc on Twitter

I'll be speaking at this year's Big Design Conference doing a presentation I've named "Just Do You Think You Are?" This presentation has nothing to do with the NBC TV show of the almost same name as I am not a celebrity and apparently not anywhere as interesting as Sarah Jessica Parker. My presentation is [...]

64: The Panic Channel – (One)

Cover of (One) Watching Rock Star: INXS made Dave Navaro appear human. I mean I knew he was human, but I only imagined faceless guitar riffs. Incredible singers, who lived in cars, sang for their lives only to win, coke it up, and eventually leave the band to live in a car. But that's how [...]

65: INXS – Kick

Cover of Kick Few groups influence music like INXS did in the 80s. I would argue their influence on popular rock and new wave created a "New Sensation". Get it? It's a play on the name of that song of theirs, "New Sensation". It's a song and it's how they rolled that's why it's a [...]

66: Ben Harper – Burn to Shine

Cover of Burn to Shine Yes, the School of Rock is back. The flu is gone after stomping each member of my family into the dirt and then it followed my mother home and beat her too. But we survived like rebels fighting the machines in Terminator Salvation. Our victory will be short-lived as some [...]