The Fred Durst Society of Humanities and Arts

The City of Austin, Texas decided to rename their Solid Waste Services Department. The residents of Austin got to suggest and vote on names. The "Fred Durst Society of Humanities and Arts" won by a landslide.

City of Austin Community Forum

Only in your dreams...

I like this.

Carpe Disco

I bet this guy farts good vibes and sneezes compliments. Book him for your next party. I don't enjoy life enough.

Happy Birthday Dizzy Gillespie!

Jazz musicians have, hands down the coolest names. Sure rock deserves mention for effort; The Edge, Davey Havok, Joe Strummer, Sid Vicious, etc. But Jazz has it easy. From the regal; Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, and Count Bassie, the elegantly understated; John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Louis Armstrong, charming female vocalists; Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, the plain cool; Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, and the best of all: Thelonious Monk

11:59 A.M.

Can you imagine the chaos that a gorilla in a gorilla suit would cause!?!?

'Americanarama' by Hollerado

Will this be the next "Here It Goes Again" treadmill video internet sensation? Pretty good song. Great video. It must have taken forever for the pixel people to get it down.

Words of a Slapstick Tramp

Charlie Chaplin's impassioned speech at the end of 'The Great Dictator'. A searing satirization of Hitler and Nazi Germany, released in 1940.

Selvedging Dignity

Mankind comes up with a lot of terrible ideas, like slavery, telemarketing, and Kim Jong Il. But every once in awhile we stumble on something that's so perfect it will continue through all subsequent generations of the world population. It will resist the vicissitudes of style, outlast empires and regimes, and probably stand as ensign of the pinnacle of human achievement after the last person has succumbed to global warming, asteroid strike, or zombies. One of these things is jeans.

Jeans are in a word; perfect.

But there are those who can't leave well enough alone. In the name of fashion, or self expression, or creativity they would seek to embellish or ornament and corrupt that which is otherwise sublime.

They embroider, and rhinestone, and contrast stitch and [shudder] add pocket flaps. In a grand mal seizure of post-modernism they add holes and wear to the jeans. The idea of machines using abrasives on jeans so the arrive in stores ragged is too much for me to contemplate. Instead I imagine cute young men and women in China or Venezuela wearing them while they play soccer or ride bikes until they are just right and then in a slightly emotional goodbye gently fold them in a box to be sent to Gaps and J. C. Pennys in the U.S.. Holes in my denim is more of a bank statement then a fashion statement.

We have a saying back on the east coast: If it aint broke don't embroider it.

Don't put any food or drink in your mouth before watching this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyYhdY-A_Hs