Or do we?
I don’t know anymore, mang. My brain is so fried and we’ve been totally slacking on updating you on all the cool and exciting things going on in our worlds. Hopefully sometime soon we’ll get out act together a bit more and re-focus on posting more dumb awesome interviews and other crazy/stupid/weird […]

And his time in Ireland. “The awards primarily go to scholars and professionals who go abroad to pursue research and teach in academic and specialized fields. Thirty-seven Fulbright winners have also received Nobel Prizes……Although a Fulbright scholar typically must have a doctorate, Mr. Powers, an art school dropout, was granted an exception because of his […]

The 2006 documentary film American Hardcore does a decent job of telling the story of the rise and fall of the first wave of hardcore bands. One interesting segment in the movie occurs when the film makers gets all the original members from the Boston hardcore band Society System Decontrol back in the same room together. […]

If I had a lot of money to kill I would probably turn into Donna Hutchings and buy 2342398 rad X-Files collectibles. Apparently this picture shows 50% of her collection.
Even crazier nerd collections after the jump.

The LARP I went to this weekend is an Asian-themed game, a kind of mashup of Eastern fantasy elements, with Samurai and Ninjas and dragons and demons. It’s really fun, and it’s nice to get away from the Tolkienesque fantasy cliches found so often in gaming. I tried to take pictures for you guys, […]

Remember last week when we told you about how seriously out-of-control fun the outdoor Paint It Black show was at Sailor Jerry in Philly? Remember the pics and video of kids doing full on dives out of a tree into the crowd? Well, wouldn’t you know that the Mosh Tree has a myspace profile.

There was a time when the Manayunk neighborhood in Philadelphia was actually tolerable. Main Street had a really sweet farmers market that was sort of like Reading Terminal West or something. Those days are long gone - the farmers market was knocked down to make room for bougie crap like Restoration Hardware which was in […]

Philly has a pretty long history with street gangs, so kids taking dumb neighborhood pride to ridiculous heights is nothing new. What is new, however, is the expanded presence of “National” gangs like the Latin Kings, Crips and Bloods. It isn’t enough that people are getting capped in Philly for relatively minor disses - now someone can catch […]

I’ve stated on here in that past that when I was growing up all South Jersey in the ’80’s I was a dorky thrash metal dirtbag. Somehow, thrash (and skateboarding) led me to punk rock and hardcore and, once I discovered that stuff, I quickly dismissed all things metal as stupid and all things punk […]

San Francisco fun vampires, you need to check out an art exhibit for us. Our Irak-y pal Tim Artz dropped us a line to let us know that he and the rest of the Dustward have an art show opening TONIGHT at San Francisco’s Hamburger Eyes Epicenter.

Fixed Push, motherfucker!

I’d like to apologize for the lack of awful tattoo postings lately. It’s not that I have run out of material (far from it), I just have been really busy. Today I want to show you some really bad pizza tattoos. I posted about this already in my old blog, but I have some new […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, in an article that could have been ripped from a punk rock fanzine circa 1992, asks: Can meat-eaters and vegetarians get along?
“This is the time of year we place a cooked brown carcass on the table, then reach inside its body cavity and scoop out powerfully odoriferous items that people are expected […]

Lance Hahn was a punk rocker and a writer. He played guitar and sang for the indie-punk bands Cringer and J Church. He also spent time in Beck’s backing band and in the hardcore punk band Filth and countless other musical projects. He self published a zine called Some Hope and Some Despair. He wrote […]

Beanie Sigel might be back behind bars (again…)

Artist Michael Townsend and other members of his collective actually built a 750 square foot room out of cinderblock in the parking garage of the mall. With supplies bought at home depot they built themselves a little apartment with a non-descript utility door as its entrance. On the inside it was fully furnished and and […]

As requested: awful and nerdy videogame tattoos. This is the first of what I am sure will be many installments: console and controller tattoos.
Please keep in mind that these are in the category “good execution, bad idea” — the artist did a good job (although those stars up top look really squished and weird and, […]

This weekend pretty much has something for everyone. You’ve got your indie-rock nerd shows, your dance-til-you-puke DJ events, your Mexican wrestling, your eternal salvation and enlightenment…you get the idea.

Tomorrow is the once again the annual Ratha Yatra, Festival of India in Philly. Everything kicks off at noon at Love Park. A parade of chariots carrying the deities of Jagannatha (Krsna), Balarama and Subhadra devi head down the parkway lead by the Hare Krsna devotees singing and dancing as they normally do. The parade […]

I have to admit that I’ve been slacking latey and I haven’t attended Brian Adoff’s Punk Rock Bootcamp since probably the 2nd or 3rd one.  Maybe I should start going again since the bootcamp just got featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Dig the soundtrack, Badoff!  Weeknight classes start soon.  Check the info after the […]