Caught a screener of The Source Family documentary this weekend, and gotta say it is one crazy ass story. Even as an Angeleno I had no recollection of the story of the man who named himself Father Yod, or YaHoWa, and essentially conned a bunch of really desperate teenagers into thinking he was God. So […]
3
Jun
A story of a radical experiment in '70s utopian living gone wrong
27
May
$7 billion hydroelectricpower plant approved in Chile against local and activist wishes
Six national parks, 11 national reserves, 26 conservation priority sites, 16 wetlands and 32 private protected areas are set to be decimated, all in the name of energy. That amounts to roughly 6,000 hectares or 60 square kilometers of land. That’s bigger than the Vatican City, Monaco and Bermuda combined. The Chileans have fought against […]
2
Feb
What better way to show her you really, really, really care?
I don’t know a lot about women, but what I do know is that they love anatomically correct cakes shaped like bleeding organs. How else to show them that you really, really care than to give them an oozing representation of your viscous, guilt-filled heart? Luckily the geniusly named baker Lily Vanilli is here with […]
31
Aug
Download one of the most famous sets of all time
This reminds me of that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones pulls the old switcheroo with the bag of sand, and first picks up that stone native talisman and holds it up all reverently, like he’s just found some sort of archaeological missing link. Well this is like that, except for […]
