I’m really thankful that my car’s stereo has an audio input. In fact, when my old car CD player died, the #1 thing I looked for in a replacement was a 1/8″ input jack. I got a Sony stereo for $50 and it changed my entire driving experience.
But in case you don’t have the luxury, the #9 item in Lifehacker’s Top 10 Driving Tips details how to “get better sound from your iPod.”
Spiegelman is best known for Maus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, genre-crossing graphic novel based on his survivor father’s Holocaust experience, and more contemporarily, for a rash of controversial New Yorker covers.
It’s all deserved, of course, but not everyone knows his complete comics lineage, which stretches from his days of concocting Garbage Pail Kids trading cards for Topps to the present, where he’s most recently published Breakdowns, an oversized comic book that bridges old work with new autobiographical panels, giving some light to his genesis as a cartoonist.
[Westword]
I’m pretty sure the tag isn’t the “eyesore,” it’s the river made entirely of concrete. Jesus…
L.A.’s largest tag: the giant, half-mile-long “MTA” scrawl that appeared last year along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River near downtown.
Authorities say the Metro Transit Assassins created the city’s largest tag — a three-story-high, half-mile-long scrawl of its moniker along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River.
…The tag has been an eyesore visible from downtown high-rises and freeways for months. But removing it is proving difficult — and costly.
[LAT]
The crowd at the Casbah gazed skeptically at the short, spritely Swedish woman in their midst. Scheduled as the opening act for Tapes ‘N Tapes and Wild Light—two fast, all-male rock bands—the woman quietly ascended to a stage littered with unmanned instruments. When she introduced the inanimate objects as her band, and people realized that she would be playing all of them by herself, the venue’s early arrivals began to nervously eye the exits. But all that changed when Theresa Andersson took off her shoes.