Archive for the ‘Essentials’ Category

Mondays don’t kill people…

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Monday is travel day in Pinkoland. Ben is heading back from Iceland (he’ll be back Wednesday) and I’ll be in Chicago until late tonight. Expect normal blogging activity to resume on Tuesday. Until then, here are a few items from the SkyMall catalog you might find interesting.
Elvis Costello has a new show [...]

Pinko on Assignment: Considering Bobby Jindal and “eco-tourism” on Snæfellsnes

Hi! I’m checking in and blogging from this amazing hotel on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in Northwest Iceland, pronunciation “!” or “?”. Basically I’m about as far as you can possibly get from anywhere, on a piece of land that is simultaneously a glacier AND a volcano, which completely blows my mind. Also there is wifi? And seals. [...]

Electric boogie-oogie-oogie

I’ll try to get something longer up about this next week but I wanted to flag this article about Tesla Motors. I don’t agree with all of the authors conclusions, but it serves as a pretty good overview of the current state of electric cars. If you have a second take a look.

Holiday Shopping Made Easy

With Black Friday now upon us, the holiday shopping season is officially in full swing. Now comes the hard part. What do you get for everyone on your list?
Well, if you’re in Indiana you can swing by your nearest Planned Parenthood and get a holiday voucher for stuff like Pap tests and breast exams or [...]

Leftovers

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Stirling again. I’m in Chicago with my wife’s family celebrating Thanksgiving, so I may not be able to blog much today. To tide you over here are some random scraps we found that you can maybe make a halfway decent sandwich with.
There is apparently a debate over whether the modern word [...]

High Fashion, Now 70% Vegan!

Looking for the perfect gift for that special billionaire in your life?  The Upgrader has a great roundup of high end men’s accessories that are skipping the leather and instead using good old fashioned canvas. Of course, most of the items on the list rely heavily on leather trim, leather laces, and tons of leather-for-leather’s-sake [...]

What, you don’t like your family?

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: It’s OK. We don’t like your family either. I’m glad you’ve decided to spend Thanksgiving reading Pinko instead.
To kick things off, It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without something totally horrific from PETA. You’re welcome. If you still need more they have a family themed video game called “Mama Kills Animals“. You stay classy [...]

Why we drink. (Courtesy current)

Our blood is on your hands.

PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: Sorry for the late start. Our respective employers are trying to kill us. How else would you explain the current workload at our “real jobs”? Still we understand that you demand fresh, daily internets. So be it. When we get fired it’s all your fault.
Naomi Klein has an absolutley devastating article in [...]

Current TV

Have you ever watched this shit? It’s kind of great. I was watching on the plane home from San Francisco and I couldn’t stop. They did a great segment on Japanese fashion and didn’t make anyone look silly or othered, and they did a 10-minute thing about ethanol that made sense and was oddly dramatic. [...]