"Older people tend to be interested in the world around them. Young people
spend most of their time listening to music and masturbating." -- Rob Long


Support America's active-duty military personnel and vets:

Soldier's Angels: including Project Valour-IT
USA Cares: helping post-9/11 military families with financial & advocacy support
Spirit of America: Help US Troops Win Hearts & Minds
Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund: help Marines, sailors, and their families meet financial needs
Freedom Is Not Free: aiding wounded service members and their families
Troops Need You: mobilizing citizens in direct support of troops in combat
Welcome Back Veterans: helping Iraq & Afghan campaign vets transition back to civilian life
Paralyzed Veterans of America: do I need to spell it out?
Fisher House: helping military families
Operation Uplink: phone cards for troops
Products for Good: $20M goal to assist charities for the families of wounded and fallen heroes from the War on Terror
Move America Forward: another great support-the-troops via charitable assistance organization
Photography by Daniel Chusid
My San Diego bro's photo galleries
Isn't life Terrible
Don Brockway on the heights and depths of popular culture
Blast Books
Fascinating illustrated books on cultural and historical phenomena
Laura Lindgren and Ken Swezey, Publishers
Shari Elf
Good and Sturdy Art made from... STUFF!
I Can Has Cheezburger
lolcats and other lolspecies
Leroy Shield tribute site
The uncredited composer behind Hal Roach film music
Bob Thompson
An overlooked genius of 1950s-60s Space Age Pop
The Bran Flakes
Smile. Happy. Fun. Kitty. Pillow. Cloud. Love. Eraser?
One Flake's site: OtisFodder.com
Otis also does web design: Example7
Amy Annelle
"A desert troubadour with a dark and compelling vision"
JB Spins
Jazz and improvised politics.
JD King Illustration
John Thorn: Thorn Pricks
Scholarly, eloquent baseball history
Ward-O-Matic: Art, Animation, Pleasing Aesthetics
Deeper Into Music
OK, the Beach Boys have 12 songs in rotation -- but Yo La Tengo has 55
Letters of Note
Shaun Usher: "an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos"
Know Your Meme
Basta Audio-Visuals
Home of the Beau Hunks, Raymond Scott, and other fine artists
Maria Levitsky: Photos About Architecture
Interiors, staircases, night scenes, and ghosts photographed by my WFMU colleague
Mike Lupica: Read:My:Back
Get Outta that Spaceship and Fight Like a Man
Chris Kluge: NJ's Master Puppetman
D. Gorton
Photographer and documentarian of Rural America
Jan Staller
Another fine photographer
Snopes.com
The truth is out there. So is a lot of bullshit. Snopes helps you tell the diff. Urban legends, internet hoaxes, cybermyths.
All About the Optigan
Pea Hicks chronicles Mattel's obsolete parlor organ, the cheapest sound around.
The Society of American Baseball Research (SABR)
Why did Brooklyn catcher Bill Bergen, who batted .170 lifetime,
last 11 seasons in the bigs? For those who are curious.
Dennis Diken: Denny's Den
Sport Murphy: Sport Spiel
Ladislaw Starewicz, Animation Pioneer
Cracked Latin (The World Is)
Lane Steinberg & Luis Accorsi throwing a gently illuminative musical light on the Spanglification of North America
Barsuk Records coffee mugs
Don't care about their artist roster -- just their caffeine tankards
Useful: The Racial Slur Database

updated 20 November 2009