Tag Archives: opinions

how to lose my business in just six words

I don't know how hor­ri­bly rel­e­vant this is or how many of you read comic books any­more (yes, they still pub­lish them and yes, some of us still read them) but I just wanted to make good on the old adage about telling 100 peo­ple when some­thing goes wrong as opposed to telling 10 when it …

April 21, 2009 – 6:51 pm | By Ryan | Posted in diatribes | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

A word about ska bands

In the last month I've been to two ska-punk shows with all-or-almost-all-cracker ska bands open­ing up, and one thing is abun­dantly clear to me: There is a rea­son peo­ple say that white folks have no soul. I've real­ized that gen­er­ally these cracker bands play ska too fast, too clean, and too mechan­i­cally. They're almost always lack­ing any sort …

January 2, 2009 – 1:31 am | By Ryan | Posted in music, shit stirring | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Let's talk about feelings

In the last month and a half since I touched this, appar­ently there was a major reli­gious hol­i­day (Kwan­zaa, duh), the Patri­ots cemented their place in Final Jeop­ardy his­tory for the next decade, and the doesn't-mean-a-god-damned-thing elec­tions in Iowa and New Hamp­shire can't decide between six of one or a half dozen of the other. I've got a lot of things …

January 11, 2008 – 12:03 am | By Ryan | Posted in culinary, cutlery, shit stirring | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off