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  • If you’ve never read Alan Moore and Peter Bagge’s horribly awesome Kool-Aid Man bio piece you pretty much need to stop what you’re doing and read it right now.

  • I’m listening to The Clash album Sandinista! in the car this week and I wanted to get a handle on how video posting works on WordPress.com so … I love this comment by boliverful1 from the YouTube posting: What’s amazing is right before the recording of their 1st album, Paul Simonon had the notes taped…

  • Thought I’d check out the experience on WordPress.com—it’s been a while. This is my first post.

  • Want your twitter account to be more influential? Want to increase the number of your followers? Or increase the amount of traffic your account can generate? Me too. These are the strategies I use—with some success—on my own twitter account. Tweet Like an Influencer There’s no point trying to gain influence on Twitter if you’re…

  • Inspired by the heavy metal covers that frightened me in my youth: The Iron-veiled Moses. It’s not too obvious that while I love the Pentateuch I find it very weird, is it?

  • One of the many things I learned from reading Wisdom from the Batcave is the origin of the word Rabbi. Rabbi Friedman explains: The Hebrew word “rav“, from which the English equivalent “rabbi” is derived, is etymologically related to another Hebrew word, “reev“, which means “struggle” or “battle”. Get it? The idea is that a…