Gendy Alimurung

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Book Covers As Art: Oh No, Not Pretentious At All

Books, remember those? Screw concert posters, this service, by Penguin Books, is nifty. It's called Art Meets Print. It is perfect for serious bibliophiles, graphic design nerds, poets, minimalists, people who can't decide what to put on their walls, pretentious literary types, and any combination thereof. Penguin makes large prints......
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Tattoos for Kids: Legal or Not?

This little kid was working some serious tattoos at last week's Ink-N-Iron custom car and 1950s fashion festival. Asked if the tats were real, his dad said, "Of course!" then chuckled. It's actually illegal for children under 18 to get permanent tattoos in California. Under California penal code section 653,......
Credit: Photo via If Shoes Could Kill

Love Your Ratflops! Where'd You Get 'Em?

Well hot damn if those bastards over at the Cheezburger network haven't cornered the market on just about everything on the interwebs. They got the cats, the dogs, the foods, and now the shoes? I'm digging their If Shoes Could Kill site, which looks to have been around since March......
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Cats and Their Catios, Let The Fur Be Free

Sometimes I get down about the internet. Like, really down. It's just always on. Always there. Always waiting with its vast quantities of crap information and its constant demand for more crap content. But then I remember the cats. Oh, the cats. Such was the case last Friday when I......
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Gangsta Wagner: A Ring Cycle You Can Shake Your Ass To

Wagner is rolling over in his grave right now. Tomorrow night (Saturday, June 19), daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra will be performing a gangsta rap version of the 19th century German composer's "The Ring Cycle" at California Plaza. Composer-conductor Geoff Gallegos is hoping "some old, conservative white racist punkass come see......
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Do You Like Swapping? Shopping? Try Give & Take

You shopaholics might be interested in this. A message popped into my inbox yesterday about an alternative way to shop called a "swap boutique." The place is called Give & Take. The system is basically a trade system. You bring in designer (or semi-designer) clothes, shoes, accessories you don't want......
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Death Troopers: A Star Wars Horror Novel

This Star Wars horror novel (huh? wha...?) apparently came out last year. I thought it was a joke. It's not. It's real. I haven't read it, but according to the publisher's synopsis, the plot centers around an abandoned Star Destroyer found drifting through space. There's a horrific disease lurking onboard,......
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Before There Was Super Sexy CPR, There Was French Maid CPR

Fortnight Lingerie's brilliant Super Sexy CPR viral video was all over the interwebs a few weeks ago. But before Fortnight's lingerie-clad models demonstrated the (sort of) proper way of giving chest compressions by locating the midpoint between nipples, there was another sexy CPR video. That one was by French Maid......