Urban Honking

The Plazm fundraising sp@m will soon end. If we don’t raise another $3500 in the next week, we are hosed and don’t get any money at all. We’re adding one last prize package (you get lovely reward gifts for donating). Called the Playa Prize, it features writing, photography, and a genuine Tarot reading. Not to […]

Reading her book has only served to further my fascination with Tina Fey–I just want more of her particular kind of funny. This is what led me to rent her 2010 film, Date Night which looked a little dumb in the previews (I am tired of Steve Carrell! He only has one-note of gee-shucks everyman […]

Ever wish you could go back in time and be recruited for a classic NASA moon mission? You’re not alone. Live the experience with a Raygun Gothic Rocketship official Space Cadet Recruitment pack and a paper model of the actual rocket (value of both: $100). Add in a collectible SCHWA kit, complete with alien detection […]

It’s been quiet around here for awhile, but not for me out in the real world. Since my last post here, I’ve finished my master’s thesis and graduated from ITP. Over the next couple of weeks I plan to catch up on documenting many of the projects from the last few months of the school […]

On this blog, I’ll bring you examples of people seeking to improve their lives through altering the calendar. Sadly, today’s news is the end of Utah’s experiment with the four-day week. Despite worker satisfaction, energy savings, and better work-life balance, the legislature overturned the four-day schedule that Utah state employees have enjoyed since August 2008. […]

No movies have happened this week. The baby we own is learning how to sleep in his crib and some days he prefers to wake up at 3 a.m. and so I have to go to sleep by 10 and so in lieu of watching the three movies I have from Netflix (Movern Caller–lady directore, […]

Well, lookee who’s Kickstarter’s Project of the Day! It’s our print bill fundraiser campaign. We’re doing well, but we still need your help and we have loads of excellent rewards for our donors. Including new rewards that weren’t there a week ago. We’ll also replace the Post-Art prize and the Book Lovers Prize soon, since […]

Michael Brophy donated this lovely piece – Kitchen Painting No. 28 – to our Kickstarter campaign to help fund the 20th anniversary issue of Plazm magazine. Thank you Mike! This, and other lovely prizes are available on Kickstarter. We are 1/3 of the way to our goal. Help put us over the top! http://kck.st/iNrLDS Artist: […]

Like my movie reviewin’ peers, blog co-auth’ress Regarding and that prisspants David Denby, I, too, have seen Bridesmaids. It was a big deal for many reasons, one being that I saw it in the theatre, which is something that is rare once you are a parent. The last 4 movies I have seen were: True […]

YES INDEED! Not as bad as it could be, but still pretty incomprehensible. Denby is generally kinder to women than Lane, but is also more likely to write about comedy and thus do it poorly, so it was always gonna be a toss-up. He manages to say that Kristen Wiig wasn’t as funny as she […]