Ben Towle

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Independent Spirit Awards

Independent Spirit Awards Congrats to local screenwriter (and guy who lives lives across the street from me) Angus MacLachlan for his Independent Spirit Award nomination for Junebug! He’s about a third of the way down, under “Best First Screenplay.” (Although, I have to point out that he wrote the screenplay for cult favorite short film …

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Contested Streets

A link to this interesting documentary footage was sent to me by the owner of Winston-Salem’s Neighborhood Transportation bike shop. I’m generally critical of the NPR-esque mantra of “Well, in Europe they blah blah blah…” as a perscription for anything and everything vexing us domestically in the U.S., but in this case they definitely seem …

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J. Chris Campbell Christmas tree ornaments

Get yer’ snazzy J. Chris Campbell Christmas tree ornaments here folks! Download the PDF, follow the instructions, and you’ve got a robot ornament like this: (Click for larger image)

Spam Poetry

From some spam I recently received: it’s alphameric in conner but introit be carlo a airedale. but o’donnell and altruism. on bogging some rhea try haddad be adoptive be steuben see pain try shuttle or claustrophobic. and sympathetic or authoritative some wrack a bowl but cytosine ! metropolis. it knuckleball , steen not indistinct or …

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NeoCon Hawk

Another denzien of the gully behind the crackhouse…I believe, a red-tail hawk: (Click for larger image)