Item: Boo!Qaeda Bumper Sticker
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Originally published as a short story in the April 1959 volume of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Flowers for Algernon was later expanded by its author, Daniel Keyes, into a full-length novel. Written as the diary of a mentally retarded man who undergoes an experimental … (read more)
A nickname is your reward for making an indelible impression on people. I’ve earned a few myself, one being Commander Zork. The Commander comes out after the third round of drinks is passed around. He’s loud, brash, and obnoxious, and I have a helluva time with the … (read more)
Item: I Hate L.A. Bumper Sticker
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Have you been to youtube.com/yorkrules lately? If you have, you’ll know that it has absolutely nothing to do with me. I wrote a message to my 56-year-old fellow Canadian requesting a trade of user registrations, but have not yet received a reply (perhaps because this interloping yorkrules last logged on many months ago, just long enough to register youtube.com/yorkrules.)
Of course, I know it’s my own damned fault for not having acted quicker (Is facebook.com/yorkrules still available?), so I haven’t given up on my YouTube presence. Visit youtube.com/york04 (What the hell does ‘04′ mean?!) to see the new yorkrules channel. Watch the videos, rate them highly, and help me grow my typically dismissive, occasionally amused, and generally disinterested audience!

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Wednesday Kirwan is the most recent of several artists featured here on Show Us Yours with a distinctly retro style. What is it that appeals to them, and to me, about these familiar stylings from our past? Perhaps such imagery connects us emotionally with the magic realism … (read more)


Uncle Walter introduced me to motorcycles. It was 1981, I was 6, and my mom’s younger brother was taking me on a daylong tour of his native British Columbia, Canada. My legs hung well above the rear foot pegs, so my tiny arms clung desperately to my uncle’s jacket from … (read more)
Item: Technologie Macht Frei 3″ x 5″ Sticker
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Shortly after I posted the Technologie Macht Frei sticker design to my CafePress shop, I was informed via e-mail that it infringed upon trade dress rights, and therefore was not allowed. Who’s rights, I replied: the Apple iPod’s or the Nazi Party’s? I was disappointed that the response was Apple. It would have been much more fascinating to learn that someone out there was concerned about the Third Reich’s intellectual property.








