Random thoughts on hoarding

39 Comments POSTED ON Nov 30 2011 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

About once a year, we give Stately Beat Manor a really good going-over — tossing out unwanted pamphlets, moving some stuff into storage, organizing permanent additions and so on — and after doing so we write a post with our thoughts about storage and hoarding and so on. This is that post, c. 2011. I assume most of you reading this are borderline hoarders, like The Beat. Your shelf porn resembles a splatter film. You have more longboxes than you do pieces of silverware. Your home contains at least one Billy. You have at one time -- perhaps even at this very moment -- made use of some kind of software to catalog your collection even if it was just Excel or Google spreadsheets. You know the drill.

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Is it possible to stay in touch without a phone or Facebook?

9 Comments POSTED ON Nov 22 2011 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

This weekend I suffered the technocrat's greatest nightmare and dunked my iPhone. It's currently sitting in a bag of rice and soon I will find out if my life is over or not. In the meantime, for someone who is attached at the metacarpal to her iPhone, this past weekend was very interesting. For instance, I had to find my way to someplace I'd never been. Instead of relying on GPS when I got out of the subway, before leaving the house I had to look it up on a map and print it out. And then pull out a paper and look at the map when I arrived. It was like a Geico caveman commercial.

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Majestic Snow Batman towers over Vermont

8 Comments POSTED ON Mar 09 2011 AT 9:00 am BY The Beat

Speaking of Vermont, Beat Spy Inky Jen passed along this epic photo of a huge Batman carved from the icy terrain spotted by a passing motorist/blogger. (Click link for larger image.)

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What I was doing in 1997

6 Comments POSTED ON Dec 14 2010 AT 9:00 am BY The Beat

Once I was paid to review websites. In a magazine. And look what was cutting edge in 1997 in the pages of CMJ Monthly.

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Morning wake up

11 Comments POSTED ON Aug 12 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Oh yeah, that’s how the Federation rolls.

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Things the internet was made for: Kanye New Yorker cartoons

0 Comments POSTED ON Aug 05 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Take one part Kanye West's completely solipsistic Twitter feed. Add in one part abstruse New Yorker cartoons. Result: comedy.

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INCEPTION’s numerous comics inspirations

16 Comments POSTED ON Aug 04 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet So according to I Watch Stuff, Christopher Nolan got the idea for INCEPTION from a Don Rosa story featuring Donald Duck and the Beagle Boys. But according to Chris Sims, it was Calvin and Hobbes that gave Nolan’s dream epic its inspiration. Which to choose? And apparently, Matthew Vaughn didn’t [...]

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Proof that you really cannot escape Comic-Con

1 Comment POSTED ON Jul 20 2010 AT 1:27 am BY The Beat

Actual Time-Warner Cable ad received in email moments ago.

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The Best of BarCon 2010

2 Comments POSTED ON Apr 04 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Truly, it is a sign of the brotherhood of Con that Davy Jones and a stormtrooper can just kick back and enjoy a beer together. Then there’s this. Hoppy Easter.

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Astrology with Ben Templesmith

3 Comments POSTED ON Mar 31 2010 AT 8:15 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetOn Ben Templesmith’s prolific and squid-loving Twitter stream, he suddenly decided to do horrorscopes, so as a public service, we represent the following: Aries: Don’t freak out much. You woke up today to find your nipples missing. They’ll be back tomorrow. Taurus: That smell coming from your neighbour’s house isn’t actually [...]

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Lego Father Ted

7 Comments POSTED ON Mar 24 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In Gaelic. Dougal is perfectly cast. [Via David O Reilly]

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End Times: Gilligan’s Island, The Movie

20 Comments POSTED ON Mar 03 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet If you were going into the end of the world in 2012, with a cold, empty feeling because Gilligan’s Island had not yet been turned into a feature film, rest easy: you will not be cast into the void unfulfilled. Co-producer Charles Roven previously worked on the GET SMART movie, [...]

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Poll: Help us rank what is cool!

10 Comments POSTED ON Mar 02 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Since moving this blog, we’ve gotten a lot more, well, random information and pr coming in, and it’s becoming harder and harder to figure out what’s cool and what isn’t. There is so much amazing stuff happening every minute, and luckily we have Twitter, Facebook, SquareSpace and LinkedIn to tell us [...]

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POLL: Help us rank what is cool!

4 Comments POSTED ON Mar 02 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetSince moving this blog, we’ve gotten a lot more, well, random information and pr coming in, and it’s becoming harder and harder to figure out what’s cool and what isn’t. There is so much amazing stuff happening every minute, and luckily we have Twitter, Facebook, SquareSpace and LinkedIn to tell us [...]

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Is anything cool any more? Pt. 1

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 01 2008 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Last week, beat pal Jimmy Palmiotti shared the above link with us, and we enjoyed it mightily. And then we got to thinking about the days when Bollywood musicals and their rapturous innocence were a secret underground thing. You had to live near the Indian cinema or near an Indian neighborhood to [...]

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