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Link of the day: The Rotten Library. An extremely useful encyclopedia of stuff you’ll never find in the World Book Encyclopedia in a million years. Go to the “Sex” section and read Mark Twain’s essay on onanism.

A Taxonomy of Boxy Clothes “The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk”, wrote Hegel*, meaning that we can only understand a historical system once it has begun to decay. So it is with great sadness that I present for you here a precise taxonomy of the boxy-cut shirt, a fashion that I have loved…

Kate and I went to Denver over the weekend for a family wedding. It was a glorious break from East Coast weather, and Hertz even had a convertible available. On the flight out, we got to meet the Amazing Bond-o Flight Attendant™ (pictured above). We visited Rick and Mary, for whom Kate used to work…

The Accidental Exhibitor For once, the weather was nice this weekend. Well, all except for the torrential downpour that washed away the West Chester Business Improvement District’s “On the roof” party at the top of the High Street parking garage. The garage’s roof was nicely landscaped, with big piles of mulch that (unfortunately) washed straight…

Screw Defend Brooklyn, this stuff is way cooler. Holy cow, LOTS more Anglophile graphic-design stuff here. Visit the Garage Company, and make sure to click on “Helmets”, “T-Shirts”, and “Decals”. I’m gonna get a new blue bubble shield for the Ultimate Water Gun. And some new T-shirts. DEFINITELY some new T-shirts.

British Action Adventure Marionette Theatre, and the sartorial choices it inspires I was first introduced to the Thunderbirds by a six year old British boy in Newfoundland. He and his mother were visiting Peter Blodgett, legendary jazz banjo player, ex-RISD teacher, and noted crank, in Peter’s house at the top of Cape Nedwick in Trinity…

Next project: attaching a “Mr. Fusion” and a flux capacitor. A BMW Airhead is the bike that you’d want to ride on some sort of time machine journey into the past, because there’s nothing on the bike that can’t be fixed (instead of replaced.) Everything on the bike is electric, not electronic, and even the…

Doesn’t the towel get cleaner every time I use it? I came home with a box filled with bike parts yesterday: everything on my desk, in fact, except for the gallon of BMW Sucker Lube, which will require a separate trip. When I pulled into the driveway, the sun was still shining, the birds were…

Spring is Sprung/The Grass is Riz/I Wonder Where My Latté Is? The sun is shining in Philadelphia this morning for the first time in what seems like weeks (refer to Kate’s blog for a more thorough familiarity with misty weather), and all the garmentos on the train are in good spirits. Pulling into Thirtieth Street…

I’ve currently got the following on my white, kidney-shaped Herman Miller dotcom desk: Four quarts of 20W-50 BMW Engine Lubricant One quart of ‘Special Performance’ 80W-90 Hypoid Gear Oil One BMW hinged oil filter kit, in a white box marked “ein satz/made in Austria” One K&N High-Flow air filter This particular collection of parts (UPSed…