The Entire Kitchen Sink Reloaded

I started a complete (re-)reading of all Kitchen Sink comics in late 2021, and kept at it until August 2022, when I took a little break that turned into a half year break.

I’d gotten up until 1991 in the Kitchen chronology, and there wasn’t anything really in the comics themselves that made me give up the project — I think it was because I’d already conceded defeat, so it just made things less vital.

That is, when I’m doing these comics blog projects, I’m (stupidly enough) challenging myself to read everything relevant that’s published. But I started cheating pretty soon, because I just couldn’t face reading the entirety of the Spirit comics, or the collected Steve Canyon. So once the stupid challenge thing was gone, then it’s just less… fun.

Yes, I know — it’s a pretty odd project anyway, but that’s probably why I stopped, half a year ago.

But now I’m raring to go again, and I’ll try to keep to a schedule — one post a day. There’s about 100 posts to go, so I should be done in three months. And I’ll be covering a pretty interesting part of the Kitchen Sink saga — the Tundra takeover etc.

So join me over at (the now slightly misnamed) The Entire Kitchen Sink blog for a thrilling finish. We’re starting off with Grateful Dead Comix.

The Best Albums of 2002

Let’s pick another year at random… 2002. Here’s a mixtape I made at the time:

And here’s list of the best albums of that year, as decided by how much I’ve listened to them:

DJ Rupture

Gold Teeth Thief
DJ /rupture - Gold Teeth Thief

The Notwist

Neon Golden
The Notwist - Consequence

Pet Shop Boys

Disco 3
Sexy Northerner (Superchumbo Remix)

DJ Rupture

Minesweeper Suite
DJ /rupture - 20 - Bloody Nora / Rough & Rugged

Arto Lindsay

Invoke
Arto Lindsay - Ultra Privileged

Juana Molina

Tres Cosas
Juana Molina - Ay, No Se Ofendan (Live on KEXP)

Various

Disco Not Disco 2
Lex ''Fourteen Days''

Moloko

Statues
Moloko - Forever more (extended)

Propaganda

Outside World
Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse

Various

Secondhand Sounds: Herbert Remixes
Merciful (Herbert's We Mix)

Max Tundra

Mastered By Guy At The Exchange
Max Tundra - Lysine

Jan Jelinek

Computer Soup

Tuxedomoon

Concert In St. Petersburg

Nobukazu Takemura

10th

ESG

Step Off

Sidsel Endresen & Bugge Wesseltoft

Out Here. In There.
Sidsel Endresen and Bugge Wesseltoft Try

The Breeders

Title TK
The Breeders - Huffer (Official Video)

And… 2002 was a great year! It’s all bangers. We get both of the bootleg remix epics from DJ\Rupture, and we get folktronica classics from The Notwist, as well as glitchy pop from Nobukazu Takemura, Jan Jelinek and Max Tundra.

It’s all good stuff.

Home Improvements

Welcome to my new Home Improvements Blog.

As I’m sure you remember from just four years ago, in my quest to create an Emacs-controlled alarm clock that doesn’t emit any light, I set up a Dasung Paperlike HD screen to use as an alarm clock in my bedroom:

I then realised that er there’s no way to actually see what time it is in the middle of the night, because it’s an e-ink display, so I put a lamp (controlled via Nexa from a button next to my bed) on the shelf above it and said “there. I did it!”:

This worked fine, of course, but the light is too bright and it looks wonky, so after just procrastinating for four years (i.e., a quick process for me), I decided to do something about it. So what about one of those lamps people use for paintings, eh? It’s 150lm, so it shouldn’t be too bright…

But how to fasten it?

Double sided adhesive tape, of course. I’m no amateur!

(The lamp is all plastic and weighs next to nothing.)

So here it’s mounted…

And here’s what it looks like in the middle of the night from my bed. (Note: Emulated time.)

So… I guess that worked? It’d be nice if the LED lights weren’t visible at all, and perhaps it should stick out more from the screen… Unfortunately, it doesn’t allow adjusting the angle, and it can’t really stick out more than it does.

Mission accomplished!