C:\Mike_Misc\Crap

It's funny what you'll find if you really start plundering the depths of your hard drive. I've just spent the last half hour looking for something pertaining to WFMU's 2002 Fundraising Marathon.

Which I did not find.

My search did, however, yield the informational detritus on display after you click the 'continue reading' link beneath the picture of the old PC. These items may or may not have been the beginnings of never-realized blog posts, (bad) ideas upon which to base radio shows, or something else entirely.

* A photograph of a desolate intersection simply named maryland.jpg

I don't think I've been to Maryland since 1992, and I'm certain that I didn't take this picture. Cool car, though.

* This animated .gif file of a series of photos taken in Chinatown, NYC which I attempted to lay some text over during my brief obsession with the GIFworks website. (Which Monica hipped me to.)

 
* A video by an 80s hardcore band called Bugout Society, who were kind of like a hardcore version of the Beastie Boys. (To the guy out there who's about to leave a comment about how the Beastie Boys were, in fact, a hardcore band, save your energy. I know that.) Bugout Society are remembered as being among the first bands to perform at the ABC-no-RIO squat/art gallery down on Rivington St., and also for pelting crusty vegan punks with White Castle hamburgers. I think one of the guys in the band (possibly the editor of Greedy Bastard zine?) was later in another band with Dave the Spazz, which Dave will be able to confirm or deny for us. Dave?

 

* A photograph of a woman looking at a huge Paul Graham photo in an industrial looking art gallery somewhere. I have probably carried on about how much I love Paul Graham's work before, so I shall refrain from doing so again. You can find out more about him by clicking here.

* A cassette J-Card with lots of Russian writing on it. I probably meant to use it as a graphic in this post, but forgot.

* The logo for the imaginary heavy metal band that WFMU's Scott Williams and I were going to start, just because we thought this word needed to appear in this font at some point before the Earth is destroyed by aliens/a comet/a robot uprising/us. [View our fake band's logo]

* This

Comments

[Parq]

I liked the last two. Maybe you should name the band "Pants in Yonkers".

[Resolver]

The Paul Graham image is from a 2003 exhibition at the Power House gallery in Memphis, TN. The gallery's website archives are embedded within a set of javascript frames. Go here:

http://www.deltaaxis.org/

... then click on "Exhibit Archives" and scroll down to 2003.

Or the direct link to the relevant frame is:

http://www.deltaaxis.org/frame_left_profiles_graham.htm

[Lil Mike in SF]

GOOD STUFF TO HAVE Lupica, and you f'n A know it apparently

don't ever delete

deleting is for sissies

i've killed half a dozen computers due to over stuffing

but never delete...

it shows weakness & fear

[Dave the Spazz]

Confirmed.

[joisy mikes]

Google is your friend. That photo was indeed taken in Maryland. If Google is correct, the shoe store is still in business as of 2005. The facade of the shoe store and the shop to the left are exactly the same in your photo and this one:

https://businessphotosusa.com/imagedb/img/US/21225/2005/US-21225-122740392_2005-09-21-09-03-2745327.jpg

Now lets look at it with Google Earth!

[mike.]

My friends and I are loving the "PANTS" pic - can I get a positive ID on the starlet holding the card? I know it's not Joyce De Witt....

[Mike Lupica]

Nope, that would be Gina Hecht, as seen on "Match Game".

[mike.]

Ah, thank you. I was thinking either Didi Conn or even Kate Jackson. But yes, Gina Hecht, from "Mork & Mindy" and a million other things.

[R.D.]

The Maryland pic shows the intersection of Patapso Ave and Hanover St in Baltimore. here is another for the collection.