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An idiosyncratic and foolish blog written by an overweight copywriter who spends far too much time seething quietly about the unfairness of it all.
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America's Tug Boats in Crisis
This is a cross-post from Best Recession Ever.Friend of the blog Matt is a San Francisco Bay Area tugboat engineer, and he reports that: “When the economy or market was doing well, we would do five to six ship jobs a day. That`s four tractor tugboa...
Me, doing more blogging, because what the hell else am I going to do?
I'm going to be blogging on occasion at Best Recession Ever, a blog that whistles cheerfully amid the collapse of the West. I'll be cross-posting here, so, while you should be support Mac, Aaron and Jeremy, if you're in a hurry, you can just read my ...
Facebook/blogger synergy. Neat.
This is some horseshit thing from Facebook. Actually, it's pretty okay. You get "tagged" and you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. Only thing is more than one person tagged me, and because I enjoy...
My GOD this a great podcast
The Cold BathThis is really good. My friend Michael (who I really don’t know all that well, to tell you the truth. But he’s a nice chap) has another friend, a mysterious Luciferian gent who is a former political consultant. Michael has convinced ...
So, here's a work thing.
The (relatively) fun lifestyle wing of my Brobdingnagian client has a kind of cool charity program where they give a portion of the advertising revenue generated from any email or text message you send via their web mail and messaging client to a ch...
The web is a powerful collaboration tool for spazzes
A couple of years ago, blog chum Jack P. Toerson linked to the singular Mr. Baldo Has A Blog Now, a blog marketing the wonderful and spurious Mr. Baldo's Shiny Wax For Balds -- Now with Phlogiston®. Well, Jack P. and I were possibly the only readers...
Here's a chappie with a well tempered blog
Citizen of the Month. He's a good writer.This came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blogspot.com...
I would like to work at your firm.
Offer me a job. At your work. I will take it, by gum. I will bring my own lunch. I'll sit quietly, and cheerfully. I could tidy, collate, bring in the elephants. Got a waxing need? I'll wax it. Canvas need stretching? I'll get my gloves. Can I plan a...
Bastard of Art Commerce: Rarely Asked Questions
The official BOAAC RAQ1. Do you ever microwave eggs? No. Wait. No. I don't. 2. If I were to call you on the telephone, would you be willing to talk to me?Yes, of course. Contact me via this blog with a prepared list of topics you’d like to cover ...
Flower Travellin' Band
Roughly the Blue Cheer of Japan. Great Japanese acid rock. Hat tip to the inimitable slickdpdx (a distant relation toMr. Mxyzptlk) of the even inimitabler-to-being-sui-generis Known Unknowns.Okay, I laid it on a bit thick.This came from Bastard of Ar...
In case nothing makes sense anymore..
... at least Marmuduke will become a little less opaque. Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke in 500 words or less.This came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blogspot.com...
Oh, this the 401st post.
You know, maybe I should have used the past three years to write a book. Nah.This came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blogspot.com...
You people are animals.
The most popular referring search term directing folks to Bastard of Art and Commerce, like, for months, is "Fat Men Fucking".Monsters. Monsters, all of you.This came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blogspot.com...
There's this American woman who somehow lives in Norway.
Yeah, I don't know either. But here's her blog if you don't believe me: Sidestepping Real. I like the writing. Jesus, get off my neck already.This came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blogspot.com...
Things I would pay US$20 to see.
* A vibrator applied to Bruce Valanch’s neck folds* A 15-pound block of ground beef in a wind-tunnel* A capuchin monkey dressed as a cowboy riding on the back of a Jack Russell terrier* The facial expression of Gobi desert nomads coming across a nu...
The question was: “Are you curious about She-Males?”
That was the title of the email in my inbox this morning. And I had to answer in the fuck affirmative, ie FUCK YEAH!Because who isn’t curious about She-Males? Like what do they call ‘em in French? “Elle mâle”? My run-ins with She Males have...
Some sentences about a Grand Inquisitor that heretofore probably never existed.
“Buttocks,” the Grand Inquisitor hissed,”Buttocks wins again.”The Grand Inquistor handled the radish apprenhensively, as its shape was far too close to that of the Shogun’s crest. The Grand Inquisitor nervously made his introductions then w...
A blog meme thing from Stephanie
Stephanie made me do this. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.At the...
Parse, or otherwise translate the grammatically correct sentence listed below:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. In this sentence, "buffalo" is a verb, a place name, and the animal. You have 16 hours, starting.....NOW.This came from Bastard of Art and Commerce, just so you know. bastardofaandc.blo...
Merely a List
1. Catal Hyük 2. lintel3. the black oak4. Grace Jones5. Corrugated Tin Roofing6. agape7. PEZ8. Chili sauce9. The male girdle10. Michel de Montaigne11. cats what have wee little glovesies 12. frying13. geologic14. fridge magnets shaped like wee fishe...
Me and Africa
I was never a proponent of the 'Great Man' school of history, that is until recently. Because I am him, or HIM!The confluence of post-colonial geopolitics has eddied at my feet. I know this because my inbox tells me it is so. One can't of course plot...
This is me, not blogging: .
Hello. Uhhh... nothing's happened to me in the last month. Sorry about that.Well, that's not true. Blog Pal Donna visited, with beau Dave and the young princes Marcus and Liams. The quad stayed the night on the way back up to far Canada after a week...
