Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking - 1977 (via AquaticBigfoot)

I love that:

1. People are still making C=64 demos.
2. They look better that I remember from the 80s.
3. They sound exactly like they did in the 80s.
4. They run perfectly in my emulator so I don’t need to actually figure out how to get stuff from the internet onto a floppy.

UPDATE:

1. I love that the resolution of an image after Tumblr is finished scaling it is STILL significantly higher than the actual C=64 graphics themselves.

Prokudin-Gorskii’s Color Photographs of Russia, 1907-1915.

In Revolutionary Color

I think part of the fascination for many white guys with the show Mad Men is that it is a window into an attractive (to them) world of white male dominance and privilege that has largely disappeared.

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The “Menaissance” and Its Dickscontents

I don’t think this is actually that true of Mad Men. But watch Gran Torino with a man and it’s clear which side of the culture wars he’s on. Do you wish you could share in Kowalski’s growing love of Hmong food or his apparent freedom to hurl racist insults at anyone he pleases?

stranger on the bus

8-bit trip (via rymdreglage)

DRESS CODE: Tends toward a kind of high-fashion golf wear, or dress-down Friday attire, for the guys. Women should aim for clingy dresses.

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BoÎte - The Gates, an Opulent Chelsea Nightclub - NYTimes.com

In other words, we don’t care what men look like as long as they have an Amex.

Of course, you cannot save a nation by having everyone work at an expensive grocery chain, but here you have what is quite simply one of the most admirable large companies in America, and liberals are pissed because the bossman wrote a glorified letter to the editor with which they disagree? Dear Progressivism, kindly fuck yourselves to death! Your one saving grace is your total, utter, and absolute fecklessness, which doomed your bullshit boycott before it began.

—Who Is IOZ?: Whole Paycheck