crackpot eating scheme

"Aug 18: Battle Week! Noon. Free." Revolutionary War reenactment in Brooklyn! Yes.

(inexactly) stated in The Man In The High Castle as 'the fakes undermine the value of the real'

"original YouTube vid: 918K+ views, 6K+ comments... The sunglasses used are Ray-Ban Wayfarers. At the end of the video, 'Never Hide' [tagline for current Ray-Ban campaign] is scribbled into the dust on the car window."

During construction "a nightly test program is run on the [airport arrival/departure board]. To not confuse the remaining passengers with recognizable locales, the software pulls names from Manguel's & Guadalupi's Dictionary of Imaginary Places"

Kio explaining Reality TV 3 months before Survivor premiered. Follow link at bottom for an MTV producer misspelling Virilio.

sick_fucks (also a bunch of 4Fs)

There was a cyclorama at Court & Joralemon. Replaced 1804 Dutch Reformed Church. Cyclorama last 2.5 years, flipped to the city. Site now the Municipal Bldg, built 1926

wtf??? first baudrillard, now this. At least comic deaths are temporary. actually mad about: just how horribly badly written superhero comix are.

matching simulation to photograph

Negative zero does not, strictly speaking, exist. But it turns out that it's a useful thing to have lying around.

"a principality which is just as real as a pavilion at the International Exhibition." (He's actually talking about Monte Carlo, 1930)

'According to a contemporary account: "[Göring] looked as if for the first time he had discovered there was evil in the world."' via kio

knock-off designer bags with FAKE spray painted on in **gold** spraypaint. "As founder Bea Correa puts it, “'Fake’ has become one of the defining keywords of the current age.'” WTF WTF WTF

Filmography of a psuedonym

IMDB reviewer spawns controversy by reviewing lost silents. -> thnx stevee

edward sampson follies