As usual, beatnikside had to tell me what I missed: Lebowski Fest. It looks like everybody was there. The Dude Jeffrey Lebowski, Theodore Donald ‘Donny’ Kerabatsos, Walter Sobchak, Maude Lebowski, Bunny Lebowski, the rich Jeffrey Lebowski with no legs, and his lacky Brandt. And don’t forget Jesus Quintana or Treehorn’s Thugs. And certainly don’t forget [...]

Posted March 16, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: Brandt, Bunny Lebowski, festival, Franz, Jeffrey Lebowski, Jesus Quintana, Jimmy Treehorn, Karl Hungus, Kieffer, Lebowski Fest, Maude Lebowski, Nihilists, the big lebowski, The Dude, Theodore Donald 'Donny' Kerabatsos, Uli Kunkel, Walter Sobchak. Be the first one.

New Hampshire’s Highland Games are back where they belong in Lincoln NH. Fittingly for the Highlands theme, the weather Saturday was cold and misty, with fogs rolling over the hills. I half expected Lorna Doone herself to appear.
The games, of course, are “Scottish Heavy Athletics” involving the throwing (though sometimes carrying) of just about anything [...]

Posted September 24, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Travel, Warren. Tags: caber toss, festival, highland games, kaber toss, new hampshire highland games, scottish games, sheaf toss, sheep toss, throwing. One Comment.

There’s 173 programs proposed for SXSW Interactive, March 9-13 2007. Go vote for the ones you most want to see at Lindsey Simon’s super cool picker. Round one voting is going now. (Also note the really good use of semantic markup in the HTML download version (which I’m embarrassed to have sullied a bit in this representation).)

Posted August 13, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: conference, festival, interactive design, new media, program proposals, sxsw, sxsw interactive. 3 Comments.

Thanks to an aside in a sad/angering story at Copyfight, I’m now up on Bloomsday. Here it is, as explained by Wikipedia:
Bloomsday is observed annually on June 16 to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and commemorate the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in [...]

Posted June 16, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: Bloomsday, celebration, festival, holiday, James Joyce, June 16, Leopold Bloom, literary festival, literature, Ulysses. One Comment.

From a Reuters story in ChinaDaily:
At noon [Wednesday], municipal trucks dumped about 130 tons of ripe, juicy plum tomatoes at the feet of adrenaline-charged crowds in town’s main square. Within minutes the area was covered in red slime, and clouds of tomato sauce filled the air.
It all takes place in Buñol, in Spain’s Valencia region [...]

Posted September 5, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Travel. Tags: bunol, bunol spain, europe, festival, fight, food fight, mediterranean, mediterranean region, plum tomatoes, slime, spain, tomatina, tomato, tomato fight, tomato sauce, tomatoes, valencia region. One Comment.

Earlier this year the Idaho legislature passed a bill recognizing the success of Napoleon Dynamite, a film about Idaho life by Idahoan native sons.
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO First Regular Session - 2005
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 29
STATING LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND COMMENDING JARED AND JERUSHA HESS AND THE CITY OF PRESTON FOR THE PRODUCTION OF [...]

Posted July 5, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Travel. Tags: festival, good sports, idaho, idaho legislature, jared hess, jerusha hess, movie, napoleon dynamite, napoleon dynamite festival, preston, preston idaho. Be the first one.