David, one of my “number one” stalkers fans, had his bike stolen last Saturday, and he wondered if I would get the word out to my Buffalo homies. So check it out below and peep up if you see anything. If you don’t live in Buffalo and you find this bike, that’d be weird, but you should say something too.

To my friends in Buffalo,

Please keep your eye out for this bicycle. It was stolen from my garage on Gill Alley sometime on Saturday along with three other bicycles. I have had it for 17 years and it has been a really big part of my life and I will never be able to replace it. I’m offering a reward of $200. If you ever see someone with this bike, and feel comfortable in approaching them, please give them my contact info and let them know of the reward. Keep in mind that they may have not stolen the bike but possibly purchased it from the person who did. I have never seen a bike similar to this one so if you see it, chances are it is mine.

I let Campus Wheel Works and Ricks know about it as well as register with http://stolenbicycleregistry.com/ I don’t have the serial number on it but could identify it very easily. My phone number is 716-563-3899. Feel free to forward this email to anyone you know in the area. The more eyes out there the better. Thank you all so much.

David

NOTE: The last photo shows the break cables as white but they are now black and the speedometer is no longer attached to the handlebars.

Like. seriously. this is some bullshit. fer real. This Obama, he’s trying to ban flavored dips. Just listen to this guy, he’s really pissed off.

Actually, he just signed a bill that will ban flavored tobacco and wraps.

I don’t think it’s all that bad, those flavored cigarettes are disgusting and really bad for you (like cloves). However, if blunt wraps are going to survive, they need to be tobacco-less and marketed for marijuana, which I think will be pretty difficult. The funny thing is that I don’t know if dip is banned, just the smoking tobacco. Either way, this guy is pissed off.

via Bilerico.com

What a fucked up and stupid thing to happen…

via Hero Design Studio – Local publication, Artvoice, stole original artwork that we created for the band Iron & Wine and altered it VERY slightly for a full page back cover ad, advertising their publication and their upcoming “Fall Arts” Issue. They even used our color scheme and textures. All of the major elements of the full page ad were stolen directly from our poster and used without our knowledge or permission!

This is a violation of the copyrights associated with our artwork and we are not going to deal with this lightly, we plan to take action and we are prepared to do whatever necessary to insure that this doesn’t happen again. Not only to us, but to other artists that the Artvoice and it’s designers could potentially steal from in the future. Another point to be made is when stealing artwork from a local artist, like us, whose work is known in the community, this causes causes confusion with respect to the source, sponsorship and/or our approval of their products and the services of their company. Within hours of the issue being on stands, and before we even saw it, we began getting phone calls, emails and texts asking if we started working with Artvoice and why did our artwork look like that, etc. This is embarrassing and potentially damaging to us and our company’s name and reputation locally.

Artvoice is aware of the copyright violation, but a solution has not materialized as of now.  It’s really shitty this happened, and I’m sure everything will come out in favor of Hero Design, but the fact that the copyright violation came from just down the block, that’s the fucked up part. Jamie Moses, are you getting to be too old to keep your company in check? I had a much higher respect for your company before now.

Oh, and Hero weren’t the only designers to be victimized by Artvoice.

We also learned that one of the two elements that they added to our original design (beyond the type elements) was also stolen, from our good friend Julian Montague’s book cover for Mark Goldman’s book City on The Edge.

Update: Zachary Burns attempts to clear his name.

Attached below is a copy of the email sent to Hero Design, that was forwarded to me by Zachary Burns, one of the Art Directors at Artvoice.

I’d like to start off by stating that I was not the artist who
plagiarized the poster that was so blatantly and embarrassingly lifted
from your studio for the back cover of this weeks Artvoice. Let me
restate that again, I unequivocally and absolutely had nothing to do
with its’ planning, conception or design.

That being said, I would still like to apologize. You have every right
to be supremely pissed (as any designer would) and whatever justice
you seek is completely within your rights. I just joined the Artvoice
staff as a graphic designer about a month ago after moving back home
from Seattle where I was a designer at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
As a journalist and designer, this kind of thievery is an
embarrassment to me and a mark of shame upon the newspaper. I’m sure
you would like to know who was responsible for this, but unfortunately
I don’t want to name names. However, if you get a hold of Jamie Moses
or Geoff Kelly they will tell you who the culprit was.

Again, I feel completely embarrassed and ashamed to work at the paper
right now. If I had any knowledge that a designer was going to so
blatantly rip off an existing design, you can be sure it would not
have occurred on my watch. It was very uncomfortable to be around the
newsroom yesterday as this story broke and have to worry that by
mistake or some miscommunication my name might falsely be attached to
this unethical practice.

Anyways, just wanted to clear my name and show my support for you guys.

–zachary burns

So uh… Randall (my tattoo artist) and I have this weird fascination with Juggalos. Maybe because they are the most honestly trashy individuals in America, or maybe cause we just wanna fuck a few of em. Juggalos are quite the interesting batch of folk. Each year, because Lollapolooza is fucking gay, Juggalos from all over converge upon Cave-In-Rock, IL, for “The Gathering.” To my Buffalo readers, imagine if all of South Buffalo went camping. To the rest of the world, imagine that kid in High School that was suspended because someone said he was gonna blow up the school, then imagine thousands of his kind, some with titties, cloned, and drinking Faygo. Faygo is the Ofishal drink of the Juggalos, mainly because it comes in “every fucking flavor.” Attached are a few photos, and after the jump, a video taken by Derek Erdman (more photos at his site), who may or may not also be a Juggalo (I don’t think so, the camera was pretty steady). (HT – Mishka Bloglin)

This event sponsored by Walmart, apparently
Dummalo and Dummerlo?
Intense. thats for sure.

So much more after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »

Dating Grumpybear led me to realize how destructive and life-sucking World of Warcraft can be. I don’t have anything against that game, just something against the people that ignore everything around them to play it. This poor kid… he’ll live.

If you dress like this:

This will happen to you:

It was bound to happen…. Starbucks VIA Ready Brew is coffee on the run. Just add hot water for “rich, flavorful Starbucks® coffee in an instant.” Maybe its just me, but I immediately wondered if VIA could be ingested like a BC powder. Well, duh, you can, but would you want to? here are the results…

I have my nipples pierced. I like the attention they get, and I may stretch them out a bit more. However, I draw the line when it comes to putting explosives near or heaven forbid, IN my nipples. BMEzine seems to know people who don’t care about any of that, and the result is surprisingly awesome. Makes me want to consider it.. maybe.

[click on the pic to see the video at BMEZINE... SFW, unless you leave that page.]

If you laugh at this video, you are a terrible person. if your heart stops, then you must be a photographer or a video person, and if you repost this, then you know its the funniest thing on Youtube today.

Oh this is..? This is broken?

Found Via Mishka Bloglin

PS. this is my 1000th published post. Get into it bitches.

I suppose I’m a bit of a bastard for this, but I’m a little too desensitized to sick shit to make a good reaction video. SO… I enlisted the help of Angel and his friends to watch it for me. I sorta fubar’d and didn’t record the reaction the first time, but Demarkis came home later and the poor guy was suckered into watching the worst out of all the “X guy(s)/girl(s) X cup(s)” videos so far. Once again, I will not link to this, but I found it over at a little site called efuckt. Its called “1 guy 1 cup” and its really frickin’ terrible.