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Hey y’all, Check out this cool digital animation about a Vampire going to the dentist. It looks pretty great and I love the way the little kid is laughing at the end. This crossed my screen through Roger Ebert. Follow his Twitter account @EbertChicago It’s a lot of fun. Joe Nolan <3 Listen to two [...]

Hey Y’all, At home right now, listening to the exploding sky in Nashville on a Fourth of July night in America. I’ve always loved fireworks, but didn’t get around to joining in on the fun this year. My favorite 4th’s were spent at my grandma’s house “out in the country” with my cousins. We’d buy [...]

Hey everybody, I hope this finds you all well and enjoying the Fourth of July weekend. Here in The Old South we have been enjoying lovely, less than normally brutal weather that has us spending a lot of time outside on various porches and decks in the neighborhood eating grilled flesh while drinking in the [...]

Merry Christmas! As a special gift to you, dear readers, we present this short, animated film of William Burrough’s The Junky’s Christmas. Here’s what the Wiki has to say: Penniless and withdrawing from opiates, Danny emerges from a 72 hour stay in a police holding cell. Hoping to make enough money to buy his next [...]

Me and mine were all saddened last week with the news of the passing of one of the true great originals of American popular music – Captain Beefheart. The man who was born into this world as Don Van Vliet died on December 17th from complications resulting from his long battle with MS. Vliet’s music [...]

In his song “When I Paint My Masterpiece”,  Bob Dylan yearns for the kind of artistic breakthrough that can literally remake the world around him: Someday, everything is gonna be diff’rent/ When I paint my masterpiece While a current show of the singer’s paintings hasn’t perceptibly changed the world as we know it, it has [...]

Guess what kids? It’s that time again! Let’s see what’s up with The Art Czar! In this most recent post, The Art Czar talks with sculptor Colin Christian: Art Czar: Tell me about  ”Gia’a” and ”Capsule” Christian: “Gia’a” is my vision of a future Earth mother, the only hope for life on this planet is for [...]

The images in Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968-1978 document a time of social and political tumult from the particular vantage point of the Gotham streets where the East Coast counterculture wore a specific mask that differentiated it from its West Coast counterpart. Capturing a period from just after the Summer of Love past the [...]

Chapter 16 asked me to have  a chat with Jim McCann and Janet Lee in order to get to the bottom of their new graphic novel Return of the Dapper Men. The book has been selling out following a wave of rave reviews and this wide-ranging chat included talk about the Big Bang, the nature [...]