August 19th, 2008 by Jeff Kocan | 1 Comment
Are you guys aware of the spam emails that are going around in the guise of breaking-news updates from MSNBC? I was just skimming my Gmail spam folder for misidentified messages when I saw these:
BREAKING NEWS: World Leaders Gather To Roast Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
BREAKING NEWS: [audio] Church Group Offers Homosexual New Life In Closet
BREAKING NEWS: Bush [...]
August 18th, 2008 by Jeff Kocan | No Comments
From 1995-1999 I worked at WWVU-FM, attending college in my spare time. U92, as it’s more commonly known, is the college radio station at West Virginia University. The first day of the fall semester was always our biggest day of the year - we’d set up a big tent in front of the student union [...]
August 14th, 2008 by Jeff Kocan | No Comments
Sorry about the crappy shaky-cam footage, but it should at least suggest the kind of energy Springsteen shows can still generate. Bruce is 58 now, and his shows still stretch past the three-hour mark. “Badlands” closed the main set, so this was shot after about two and a half hours of solid rocking, and nobody [...]
August 12th, 2008 by Jeff Kocan | 1 Comment
My geekier hobbies - comics, video games, “speculative fiction” - rarely intersect with my job, but when they do, holy crap. Gaze in adoration at the cover of the October 2008 edition of Racer X Illustrated:
Craig Schulz, son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, was nice enough to write a feature for us about the series [...]