The art critic and journalist Carly Berwick has a nice interview with Mike Kelley, formerly of Destroy All Monsters, about noise music, that postmodern clang of junk ensembles, feedback, and found sound that arty types seem to like. As Carly points out on her personal blog, kids really dig them some noise music, too. She …
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Dirt Is Good
My ex-wife has certain charming underminer tendencies. To wit: J.P. has had a series of rashes of late, along with a runny nose that hasn’t gotten better these past weeks. The Horrible One With Whom I Once Lived interpreted these symptoms, not unreasonably, as signs of potential allergies. Fair enough — every kid on the …
Super-Important Things My Son Should Know
In honor of this unfortunate child who speaks Klingon, here is some totally useless super-important stuff I will make certain J.P. knows by the time he is 50: 1. The ewoks were speaking Tibetan. 2. The term “peckerwood” has nothing to do with a pecker, an erection, or wood. It is still okay to laugh …
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Teaching Baby to Speak Klingon: nuqjatlh?
A scribe in Dinkytown unearthed this unearthly parenting technique: speaking to your child only in Klingon. For the first three years of life. Some might see this as some kind of child abuse. At best, it’s sucking up valuable brain space for a language that you can only actually use to communicate during ComiCon. But …
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