Archive for October, 2005

The Phantom Creeps

October 31st, 2005

Happy Halloween. You know what today means — scary movies! Mindjack just did a Vital Horror feature for anyone who needs ideas. As for us, we’re going to do our usual hiding out in the back room, porch light off, avoiding the trick or treaters. Sorry, but I hate kids and giving out candy. The […]

Target Red?

October 30th, 2005

Quick question: does anyone know what PMS color red Target uses on their logo and promotional materials?

Talk of the Town

October 28th, 2005

For my birthday earlier this month, Christopher gave me a copy of The Complete New Yorker. It’s exactly what the title says — every issue of The New Yorker (up to February 14, 2005), spread across eight DVDs. Sure it’s buggy, some of the scanned artwork is splotchy and the article abstracts appear to have […]

Land of Misfit Toys

October 27th, 2005

My pal Brad sent along TV Cream’s Top 100 Toys. This must be British, but it has lots of American toys as well. Actually, the most notable thing about the list is the number of things I feel neutral about or harbor no nostalgic feelings toward. Stuff like the little magnetized race game at #98, […]

Feed Me Seymour

October 27th, 2005

I’ve been tooling around on Bloglines trying to figure out why the new Scrubbles entries aren’t showing up on the feed. The only method that worked for me was to delete the old feed completely, then manually enter the Scrubbles Atom feed URL. So, cut and paste this address:
http://www.scrubbles.net/atom.xml
… and you’re good to go.

Food Court Utopia

October 25th, 2005

I didn’t see or read too many weblogs during my absence, but one stood out for its originality - Malls of America. This weblog consists of little more than vintage postcards of early shopping malls, but it’s remarkable how similar they all are and how they speak of a kind of long-gone ’50s-’70s optimism. That […]

Gruesome Twosome: Flies in the Attic Edition

October 25th, 2005

Goblin: “Tenebre (Main Title)”
LP: Tenebre, 1982 | BUY
Lalo Schifrin: “Amityville Frenzy”
LP: The Amityville Horror, 1979 | BUY
Trying something new here. Every other Tuesday, I’ll post a pair of thematically similar mp3s to share. For this first edition, I have a duo of scary (and strangely funky) horror soundtrack cuts. The Goblin track is a propulsive […]

Subscription Renewal

October 23rd, 2005

The 40 Greatest Magazine Covers as chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors (story). Their selections were split down the middle between the important and the delightfully random, such as the 1989 Details with Cyndi Lauper in retro-’40s pose. I’m sure Andy Warhol would have loved to know that he’s featured on two of […]

Back from the Dead

October 21st, 2005

Scrubbles.net is back. I’m so happy to have a functioning weblog again, and with a sweet new design too. Long story short: my database got corrupted during an upgrade, so I had to start from scratch and redo everything again. The archives are gone, vanished, kaput. Oh sure, they can still be accessed through search […]

100 Things About Me

October 19th, 2005

1. My mom says that before I could talk, I’d watch TV and sing the theme song from the next program coming on.
2. #1 probably says it all about me, but if you need more go ahead and read on.
3. I could happily eat breakfast cereal for every meal of the day.
4. I’m a firm […]