Apparently Swine Flu Is Back
Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Dallas VonKillbot in Apocalypse
I was like 98% sure that people were kind of over the whole swine flu epidemic, but it seems the douche-bag bloggers of teh internetz have stirred up another wave of panic. In all honesty, I’m kind of digging all the over cautiousness everyone is making a big deal over: not only to the realists of the world get to watch people’s panties get wedged up their asses after getting traumatized by sources like Faux News, I also get to reap the benefits of the misconception that people [...]
Last Week’s Best Email Headline: Third Eye Blind Headlines Jakarta After Bombing
Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by spencer in Apocalypse, Idiocy, Music
Adding Insult to Injury:
“Third Eye Blind Headlines Jakarta After Bombing”
What, first Jakarta gets bombed, then we send in Third Eye Blind? BRUTAL.
August 7, 2009 — Despite security concerns in Jakarta, Third Eye Blind will
headline Java Rockin Land, the largest music festival in Indonesia.
Regardless of warnings to the contrary, the band will perform August 9th in
support of Ursa Major (Aug 18), its first album in six years.
“It seems counter to everything we stand for if we didn’t do this, and it
would bother me to no end if we backed [...]
Van’s Warped Tour ‘09
Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by A. Seals in Apocalypse, Band of the Day, Blog, Crime, Fashion, Film, Food Bites, Hit The Deck, Idiocy, Internet, Lifestyle, Literature, Music, Politics, SXSW, Snowboarding, Sports, Surrounding Areas, Videos, Warped Tour, gaming
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Billy Idol at ‘05 Vans
Vans ‘05
Van’s Pit
Vans ‘05
Vans Warped Tour at Sleep Train Amphitheatre
This show will knock your socks off! Buy your tickets and let’s ROCK!!
Date:
Friday 08/21/09
Door:
11:00am
Show:
12:00 p.m.
Sleep Train Amphitheatre Wheatland
2677 Forty Mile Road
WHEATLAND, CA 95901
Go to Livenation.com for Tickets
Tickets are General Admission Standing Room Only.
Adult $33.00
Adult Day of Show $38.00
News Flash!!
“SORRY FOR GOING BACK TO SCHOOL†PROMO
Tomorrow Only After 4pm 
All tickets will be $20 dollars for students with their ID. If they [...]
Synthesis Weekly Reviews – Magazines and Publishing In General
Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by spencer in Album Review, Apocalypse
Magazines
Print Media
The End of An Era
Pick up your favorite magazine and compare it to an issue from 2006. Notice any difference? Across the board, quality of paper and page count are down in 2009. But it’s increasingly unlikely that you would do such a thing, as people don’t buy magazines anymore. The print media world is staring down the barrel of inevitability’s loaded gun. At the end of the newspaper/magazine epoch we find the most popular titles grasping at straws to preserve their dwindling margin. Case in point: Maxim’s [...]
The Death of Music Magazines: Slate
Posted on 28. Jul, 2009 by spencer in Album Review, Apocalypse, Art, Music, SXSW
If you remember liking music magazines growing up, but can’t remember the last time that you subscribed to one or nabbed one off the racks, you might enjoy reading Jonah Weiner’s article in Slate: Spinning in the Grave, The three biggest reasons music magazines are dying.
Unfortunately, the days when Cameron Crowe could spend months reporting a story from Led Zeppelin’s tour bus are long gone. Tabloids have helped make stars wary, if not scornful, of journalists of all stripes, print doesn’t fill artists’ coffers (many high-powered publicists have repeated [...]
Original Thought In The Blogosphere and The Room Of Endless Mirrors.
Posted on 23. Jul, 2009 by spencer in Apocalypse, Art
Growing up (occasionally) reading my local daily paper beyond the comics section, it struck me how much of the news was regurgitated. It seems even back then, the Associated Press wrote at least one third of the Sacramento Bee.
I haven’t really picked up the Bee since I moved from Sacramento a decade or so ago (or pretty much any other newspaper besides the Synthesis or the CN&R, for that matter) but I imagine the margin of original content to canned hasn’t improved.
But then I look at our blog [...]
Toxic Garbage Island on VBS.TV
Posted on 08. Jul, 2009 by spencer in Apocalypse
Do all you can to limit the amount of disposable plastics you use. Why? Check out the VBS.TV series “Toxic: Garbage Island”
A Letter To The Editor…..Happy Birthday, America!
Posted on 06. Jul, 2009 by awellersdick in Apocalypse, Blog, Crime, Lifestyle, Politics, Sex, War
This is an actual letter received by the editor of the Synthesis Weekly. It arrived this morning from one of the magazine’s most loyal readers, Virgilio Gonzalez.
Dear Jake,
How was your Fourth of July Weekend? Mine did not go very well. When I moved to this country, I knew you Americans could be confusing, but I’d seen enough of your country on TV to think I had a good grip on how things worked here, but I guess I was wrong. Now that I live here I just want to be [...]
