Category Archives: Mostly Soap Box

Crapping On What You Love: The Sad Dowager Meryl Streep

Some time ago, I began a series called Crapping On What You Love. They turned out to be, as one might suspect, some of my most controversial articles. The premise is really quite simple, and something you’ve probably guessed: I take beloved icons of our culture, and I crap on them. Not just for the [...]

Caminando en Barcelona

Always striving to bring the world to my readers, I hit the streets of Barcelona today with the intrepid KTray, and I must say, it is one cool town. In order to help you all fully appreciate this super mod metropolis, I will be posting photos over the next few days, starting today. Click on [...]

Marketing Strikes Again

I recently took this photo of cans of glass cleaner that have been sitting by my desk at work for about a thousand years. For some reason or another, I found it interesting, and while looking at it I noticed that the cans say, “for the graphic arts industry” on the front. I’m sure that [...]

No One Is Going To Help Us But Us

Long time Jose el Retardo reader Miriam Climenhaga is a dedicated human and painter (check out her work above, and more by clicking here) from the American Breadbasket, and she recently posted an item on her blog art and art like substances about the difficulties one has finding the time and energy to do the [...]