Hey boys, so you can bench press a few hundred pounds. So fucking what. Underestimate at your peril the bitch power of women as they create and destroy while your head hangs among many others in their necklace. This season, Feral House and Process Media offer two different titles from modern Kali-Yugas. One is called [...]

Lately, we’ve been collating and selecting images for a coming title called Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society, a Visual Guide. This book has strangely become an unexpected lesson in the sado-masochistic rituals practiced in Masonic and other fraternal initiation ceremonies. Several factories manufactured the paraphernalia involved to threaten and humiliate new [...]

You know how it works. After every interview you think of a thousand things you wanted to say but got too polite or otherwise sidetracked. BoingBoing.net now has a podcast (“Gweek”) that you can pick up through iTunes or through their site. Yesterday Mark Frauenfelder’s interview with me and Jodi Wille, co-founder of Process Media, [...]

Few of our books come by way of what major publishers call the “slush pile,” or a proposal sent to us by writers, not agents, by mail. But sometimes you’re sent one that captures your attention, and has a particular magic. One submission, from a strikingly intelligent and attractive 22-year-old, told about her fall into [...]

Slate magazine recently featured a detailed article on fringe religious group restaurants and how for decades they’ve quietly and significantly influenced healthy, conscious eating trends across America. I’ve been to a number of these delicious, unique restaurants in LA and across the country, and it always feels like an adventure. The food is fresh and [...]

Today’s New York Times Home & Garden section features a major profile of The Urban Homestead authors Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen. Check out the article here, and the slideshow with pictures of their bungalow. You can read all about their do-it-yourself lifestyle, and how to avoid the “lentils and gloom” mentality.    

When I walked into the QFC chain supermarket this week I saw a large display of Triscuit crackers with a new look that said, “PLANT A SEED / GROW A MOVEMENT” complete with basil seeds implanted on part of the cardboard packaging. Yes, here’s Kraft Foods, the largest confectionary, food and beverage corporation in the [...]

The people who received bogus trademarks for century-old common phrases, and used that trademark to threaten us and many others, will have two trademarks challenged by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and collaborating attorneys at Winston & Strawn LLP.