Posted by blainegarrett on May 13th, 2009 | View Comments

As seen on Tech Crunch tonite, Craig’s List is modifying their “Erotic Services” category and tightening up rules to stamp out the apparent widespread use of its site for prostitution.
Personally, my only interaction with Craig’s List was getting a crappy leather sofa I discovered was held together with duct tape, helping an ex pick up a bedroom set from the ghetto that...
Posted by blainegarrett on Apr 27th, 2009 | View Comments

Just a quick rant…
My old buddy Jin and I have been planning on catching the new Wolverine flick together for a long time. I know it was leaked to unflattering reviews, but I really don’t care.
He is coming from St. Cloud and I am coming from Minneapolis. So we were thinking it might be cool to try to hit the IMAX in St. Michael. But thus far, the ticket sites were not showing...
Posted by blainegarrett on Jan 20th, 2009 | View Comments

One of my other resolutions this year is to become more knowledgeable of a few things, especially some “toys” I have purchased over the years. I believe that if I don’t make good on learning them, I should probably just sell them.
Here is the skinny…
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Posted by blainegarrett on Jan 4th, 2009 | View Comments

As I write this, my dad is entering his first week of retirement.This seems so weird to me since everyone thinks of my dad as “NAPA Mark”. I always thought of my dad as being forever young and tough. Retirement seems like something “old people” do, and even now, I don’t think of my dad as old – evn though he was already 40something at my earliest memories of...
Posted by blainegarrett on Dec 29th, 2008 | View Comments

For a long time now, I have had dreams and nightmares of black ooze. I have tried to embrace it… somewhat to address the visions and somewhat because, well… it is a neat vision. Perhaps it is some Jungian bit that is easily explainable, or at least a common dream. Either way, I have worked it into my comic The Surplus Bio-Freaks, into my ink work, and, heck, this site, “Swarling...