Posted by ryan on 15 Sep 2008 at 01:03 pm

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This Friday Jeff Griggs, Nick Canada and I are launching a webstore to raise money for the Obama campaign in GA. You can check out the front page HERE and add us on MySpace HERE.

Please help us spread the word, this election is a big deal (no, seriously… haven’t you heard?!) and we really want to help grab our fair state from the clutches of the GOP.

Here is some more info from the site explaining things and what have you…

“After looking in every tube on the internets, we found that there are very few options to A) get rad-looking and inexpensive Obama t-shirts and B) connect a solid monetary high-five to Barack Obama.

About Us: Obamarad.com is the brainchild of three Athens, Georgia-based musicians who all, at one time or another, kicked a bunch of ass at the University of Georgia. Our county (Clarke) has long been a tiny blue oasis in a desert of red. We’ve certainly experienced our fair share of war-mongering, unfair taxation, oil-whoring, environmental destruction, ridiculous lending practices and general tyranny. America should not be a 98,589,451,022,605.6 square foot Wal-Mart. We’re ready for change.”

Posted by ryan on 06 Aug 2008 at 01:05 pm

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friend of the Internet and the wild life, Senator Ted Stevens just got his ass indicted today on corruption charges. read the fun http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/washington/30stevens.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Posted by justin on 29 Jul 2008 at 01:39 pm

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the internets might be the single greatest invention for bored people and perverts ever. in the beginning it was just dial up porn… but then came other things to do inbetween masturbating. the following are 6 websites that i had slight obsessions with and then suddenly had no interest in at all and the moments that made that so.

1. rotten.com- when i was in highschool at just the point when people started the get the Internet and all that was out there was porn and chatrooms. but where could a twisted 17 year old kid could go look at clips of people being hit by trains, photos of shark attacks, and the autopsy reports of dead celebrities? luckily rotten.com had all of that in one convenient spot.

moment i realized i was over it: i’m not actually sure when i quit looking at gross shit on this site, but after September 11th there really wasn’t any sort of horror that was ever gonna top what i watched all day on the news.

2. the onion- the original fake news. i spent countless hours scrolling through article after article on this site. emailing links to my friends. printing out all my favorite ones and compiling them in a notebook to read again and basically just laughing my ass off.

moment i was over it: when i started to notice that the Onion was recycling old articles pretty regularly for new issues and then also when i realized that the headlines themselves were usually way funnier than any of the articles inside.

3. Art Of the Mix- a website completely dedicated to one of my all time favorite obsessions, the making of mix tapes (and later cds). my love affair with this site lasted for years. you can go back and look at mixes i’ve posted from all the way back to 1999. it was great, you could post your own mixes. comment on other people’s mixes. get voted mix of the week (two times for me). and meet people who you could trade mixes with.

moment i was over it: this was a slow process as i regularly posted mixes on a weekly or daily basis until about 2005, then it began to trail off a bit. i only posted 3 mixes in the entire year of 2006 and then it picked up a bit again last year but for the most part my love was over. besides, i have an ipod. i don’t need mix cds or tapes anymore.

4. buddyhead.com- the perfect website for a jaded, snarky fan of underground rock. buddyhead was a website based out of LA run by these two kids who just posted gossip about bands, made fun of everyone and everything, and talked about cool music that i usually liked. it was pretty awesome, especially because it was at the height of illegal downloading sites, so any new band they’d mention i could usually go find some of their songs and download. plus Buddyhead regularly harassed Uber-Douche Fred Durst and would post his phone number on the site so that people could call and harass him. it was all wonderful and juvenile.

moment i said fuck this shit: when Buddyhead just turned into the Sour Grapes website and they would diss bands that they’d championed for whatever petty reason. also they spent more time promoting their record label and their bands and less time posting hilarious gossip posts or record reviews. getting too big for your britches is always a bad thing for a website. i think whenever it was that they started to think they were actually important then they became the thing they were always making fun of.

5. Deadspin- the anti ESPN blog for people who were fed up with Yankees/Redsox 24 7 and Chris Berman’s stupid nicknames. Deadspin was funny and snarky and pretty much a sports version of Buddyhead. i loved it, even if it was was really just a bunch of links to other people’s blogs. it was still a perfect place to go read hilarious rips on ESPN and how the world wide leader had lost their way. hell it even inspired me to start writing my own damn sports blog.

moment it was dead to me: deadspin moderator/creator/main contributor till he got a real job working for a magazine, Will Leitch constantly wrote about his lover affair with former Cardinals pitcher Rick Ankiel who made an amazing comeback as an outfielder last year, highlighted by him hitting a homerun in his second game back int the majors…blah blah blah. after about the 10th straight post on the subject i posted a comment that said, “who cares besides you?” and then got banned from commenting on the site ever again. really? so being a voice of descent against ESPN is ok because their big an evil, but daring to make fun of a deadspin post about Will’s boyfriend is totally unacceptable. that my friends is called being lame.

6. myspace- it really started with friendster, but then myspace came along and took all the things about friendster that were good and then combined those things with blogs, music pages, the ability to personalized your own site, and iming thereby making friendster look like beta max being compared to DVD. all in all myspace’s real charm lay in the fact it was a good place to meet sluts. and no value can be put on that.

moment i was over it: when i realized i wasn’t obsessively checking it every 20 minutes and wasn’t even writing people that i was friends with. then i just went back to email.

Posted by justin on 27 Jun 2008 at 10:05 am

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Greetings People!

Anyone who visited the site yesterday may have noticed that things were amiss. We were indeed hijacked by the old robot porn pirates but thanks to our crack web enforcer Bob at TehCompany.com things are back to normal now so feel free to wander around the site and if the urge strikes why not visit the SHOP and pick up new stuff from The Buddy System or a comic while you wait for the upcoming release of Ruby Isle’s full-length “Night Shot.”

Thanks to everyone who let us know about the problem, here’s to hoping we can dodge the roboporn uprising next time!

Posted by ryan on 10 Jun 2008 at 01:44 pm

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As some of you know I spend a few hours a day designing tombstones and catalogs full of tombstones… Today while working on our new catalog I was editing a photo and noticed the scariest monument I have ever seen in the background.

Cropped for your pleasure:

It looks like some kind of evil Nazi propaganda statue for a fascist army of giant birds!

Keep in mind that our monuments are made in China and as such, this statue is in a warehouse somewhere in the Chinese mainland… someone call Lou Dobbs, I think the Reds might finally be ready for world domination!

And we thought the bird flu was the scariest avian threat coming from Asia.

We are fucked.

Posted by ryan on 06 Feb 2008 at 03:36 pm

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is right HERE. Thanks Mat!

Posted by ryan on 31 Jan 2008 at 01:19 pm

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Walt Disney may have had suspect personal views but he sure did have good ideas about the future - which would be the present if only people had listened and spent money on science and education instead of killing poor people around the world and letting corporations dictate the pace of progress… This holiday season tip your 40 for the life we should be living:  

Thanks Craig for the link!

Posted by ryan on 19 Dec 2007 at 01:54 pm

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Read it all HERE.

Posted by ryan on 06 Dec 2007 at 02:55 pm

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I swear I am not trying to dominate the blog today… Anyway read this week’s Action 5 HERE.

Posted by ryan on 30 Nov 2007 at 03:35 pm

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