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Jun 13, 2013
We just released Boing Boing's first short ebook, Mark Dery's "All The Young Dudes: Why Glam Matters," and the feedback has been terrific. Mr. Dery was just a guest on New Hampshire Public Radio's "Word of Mouth" show talking about this subculture that served as a glitter bomb of fashion and attitude and briefly relieved the malaise of the '70s. You can hear the interview here, read a free excerpt to whet your whistle, or take the plunge and buy the ebook for just $2.99 from Amazon.
this is the greatest thing ive seen all day pic.twitter.com/f4wSSPFHoG — glitch! @ tired (@GlitchyFur) May 20, 2020 I hereby dub this genre: “Appliancewave.”
I have a soft spot for Wheatus’s “Teenage Dirtbag,” mostly as a fun karaoke song that namedrops Iron Maiden and a boyfriend who’s a dick. But I’ve always been surprised by its lasting endure — it’s even by covered by One Direction, and the band re-recorded a translation in Irish Gaelic. Not bad for a […]
Tom Corboy’s “Mondo Elvis” (1984) is a short, award-winning, and oddly unsettling documentary about extreme Elvis Presley fanatics after The King’s demise. From the description at Mondo A-Go Go Video’s channel: “This award-winning film takes a searing look at Elvis Presley’s most fanatic followers. Meet such devoted disciples as the twin sisters who believe Elvis […]
Promoting products is almost nothing like it was back in the Mad Men days. In fact, the digital landscape has changed the ad game so much that it barely even resembles early Grey’s Anatomy days anymore. Marketing a product digitally isn’t about the right ad slogan or color scheme. It’s about crafting the narrative around […]
Every once in a while, we see a new product come along that’s so versatile and elegantly simple that it’s strange no one’s ever gone there before. Portable lights themselves aren’t new, but there’s something about the MOGICS Coconut Light that’s so seamlessly well-designed and adaptable that it feels startlingly original. The Coconut is basically […]
With the U.S. cautiously reopening, it’s probably time to take stock of where you’re at. After spending all these weeks in the house, you’ve likely already assembled a little list of items you either realized you were missing or need to replace. And those kinds of revelations probably apply to nearly every room. We got […]
