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October 25, 2013
October 24, 2013
Seeing this new mural by Banksy reminds me that PM Press - who...
Seeing this new mural by Banksy reminds me that PM Press - who published my novel The Wrong Thing - also published two books of photos of Banksy’s work, which includes pieces that have since been eradicated.
October 22, 2013
2 YEARS IN PRISON - A MAN'S STORY
Two things that crime writers consistently get wrong is how guns work, and how life in prison is. This is a handy corrective to the latter.
An excellent read culled from (I believe) an old 4Chan thread that includes - the top 10 worst things about prison that you never knew about:
10. The Smell
Prison smells like shit. Smells worse than shit. You know the smell you imagine jenkem to smell like? Imagine that, only it’s being rubbed on the arm pits...
October 20, 2013
Portland Zombie Apocalypse… Wouldn’t that be a good...
Portland Zombie Apocalypse… Wouldn’t that be a good name for a band?
HOW (NOT) TO FAKE YOUR OWN DEATH: 7 DUMB MISTAKES
1. Don’t use a corpse of the opposite sex
Molly and Clayton Daniels faked Clayton’s death to keep him out of jail and to collect on his $110,000 life insurance policy. They dug up a corpse, dressed it in Clayton’s clothes, then burned it in a car crash. However, DNA testing revealed that the corpse was female.
(Source: Art Of The Prank)
October 19, 2013
magicoftrimet:
SPOTTED: October 31, 2012. Westbound Blue Line...
SPOTTED: October 31, 2012. Westbound Blue Line MAX.
Happy Halloween. Enjoy your nightmares.
On Halloween last year, I arrived in Portland. Moving here was one of the best decisions I ever made.
October 18, 2013
criminalwisdom:
MY HARASSERS»
Hannah Price’s series, City of...
Hannah Price’s series, City of Brother Love, features portraits of men in Philadelphia captured just moments after they harassed her on the street.
(Source: Metafilter)
It’s interesting that this photoset was given the title My Harassers, even though the photographer, Hannah Price, apparentlydisagrees with it. Isn’t this just another example of a woman being denied the right to define her own experience?
laphamsquarterly:
Modern science already knows a great deal...
Modern science already knows a great deal about the evolution of the cybernetic body. Cybernetic bodies will develop from robotic bodies to bodies made of a cluster of nanorobots, and then to hologram bodies. These transformations will completely change the accustomed infrastructure of human civilization.
Neohumanity will change the bodily nature of the human being and make them immortal, free, playful, independent of limitations of space and time.
Dimitry Itskov suggests that...
October 17, 2013
"There’s too much “noir” out there that is simply bourgeois types sneering at the..."
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