6 Degrees Of Casey Serin

The Akubi Zone!

2009-04-30T18:17:00.000-07:00

Now you have entered The Akubi Zone™!

Amanda's Southern Comfort

2009-04-21T21:11:00.000-07:00

Amanda Palmer "Leeds United" Music Video from Amanda Palmer on Vimeo.

A Beautiful Death

2009-04-02T17:58:00.000-07:00

This image currently Tumbling about has always intrigued me. If it were a film, one would find it utterly absurd that someone could fall 86 stories and look so serene and beautiful.

Spiral Sad Puppy Panties

2009-03-20T20:14:00.000-07:00

Spiral - Photographer/Illustrator

Bitter Sweet and Sour

2009-03-13T18:10:00.000-07:00

Bitter Sweet and Sour by ~Voivodess

American Beauty

2009-01-15T19:14:00.000-08:00

henrich kimerling

For the Californicated: Your tax dollars are busy excavating hippy era beer cans. Remember that when you get your IOU "check".

Snow

2008-11-09T14:45:00.001-08:00

I found this somewhere last week and just got around to posting it. I think it has a nice peaceful quality to it. Click for the larger version -- the thumbnail loses a lot.

This will be my first winter without snow in many years, and I'm somewhat surprised to realize that I'm going to miss it. A little, anyway.

Murst

2008-11-04T19:53:00.000-08:00

to congratulate Obama.

Turn the Page

2008-10-02T21:50:00.001-07:00

This has been stuck in my head since I heard it on the radio a few days back. I prefer it over the Metallica cover, unlike a lot of the YouTube commenters. The stark simplicity of the original just works better.

Breaking News Update: Casey's Hotel Found!

2008-09-18T18:39:00.000-07:00

The Bad Credit Hotel!
The U.S. Treasury sure has been getting creative these days!

Large Hadron Collider web cam

2008-09-11T20:30:00.000-07:00

And now, a link just for Edgar: the LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams

(This is a static image. Click the link above for an up-to-date view.)

Sarah Palin has a Gun

2008-09-09T20:38:00.001-07:00

What will she do with it?

12 Tips for Living Out of Your Car

2008-09-04T12:29:00.000-07:00

Some useful tips for Casey:

Most jobs, I came to the conclusion, were ridiculous — and if I worked at them long enough, I would become ridiculous, too. My bosses knew that I didn't want to be there; they didn't want me there, either. In the two months after that I'd discovered that I wasn't cut out for mowing grass, pouring coffee, tossing pizza, unloading trucks, customer service, shoveling dog food into bags, or — what started the tailspin — serving deep-fried bricks of suet to my distended countrymen.

I did, however, have a 1996 Integra GS-R, finished in the most ebony of color schemes and with which I sure as hell wasn't going to part. That's how, for the next three weeks, it was mi casa es mi coche. I've been there and didn't get my eggs scrambled, and there's no reason why you can't, either. But rather than survive by your wits alone, take a minute to run over the following tips so you don't make some of the same, dumb mistakes that I did...
Continued here.
Hat tip to Wagga for the sweet find!

Ghost Riding Grandma

2008-08-27T22:30:00.000-07:00

I saw this a long time ago. For some reason it popped into my head as I was driving home today.

10 Reasons Why Casey Serin Sucks

2008-08-24T20:47:00.000-07:00

AS SEEN ON BAAB!
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!
I'm seeking entries for 10 Reasons Why Casey Serin Sucks.
If your entry happens to win, your blog or personal agenda will be linked into my vast empire of fishnet blogs.
Woohoo! Win-win!

I think this kid is way cooler than KC, but they have a similar look.

Broadcasting Live with Ustream.TV

6 Degrees of Fail

2008-08-23T15:16:00.000-07:00

(via Failblog)

(also via Failblog)

Resistance is Futile

2008-08-22T14:27:00.000-07:00

Hat tip to Ogg for this find.
(You will probably need to click on the image to read it.)

RIP Colin

2008-08-21T17:19:00.000-07:00

I hope your mom has returned for you in whale heaven.

GROWN men were in tears as Colin the abandoned baby humpback whale stuggled as he was dragged behind a boat before being left to thrash on a beach after he was injected with a fatal dose of anaesthetic this morning.

Yapping Pack of Pomeranians

2008-08-20T17:37:00.000-07:00

Hat tip to Wagga for this find!

Happy Fish in Iceland

2008-08-19T22:22:00.000-07:00

I never would have expected this...

2008-08-19T16:13:00.001-07:00

Here's the source of the traffic spike.

Please click the "meneos" button to keep the Sweet Traffic alive.

Maximum Lean Angle

2008-08-16T20:24:00.000-07:00

Signs for your yard

2008-08-15T16:32:00.000-07:00

Mmm. Sexy.

2008-07-31T20:35:00.000-07:00

I think I have to let this one speak for itself.

Koi Maid

2008-07-23T19:35:00.000-07:00

Classic!

Koi Kihagaki

2008-07-17T16:49:00.000-07:00

“Koi Kihagaki” cut-paper/wood
Patrick Gannon

Preznit giv me turkee

2008-07-09T19:33:00.001-07:00

Preznit giv me turkee

I am aware of all internet traditions

2008-06-18T12:05:00.001-07:00

Awareness chart posted on this hilarious thread.

Internet Traditions, Continued

Caught a big fish!

2008-05-30T15:14:00.000-07:00

Not a koi.
Polaroid Land photo, 1972.

Swapatorium: It Was This Big

More fishing at Baab!

Koi feeding frenzy

2008-05-23T19:36:00.000-07:00

By Matt Niebuhr, via Flickr.

Happy Fishnet Friday!

2008-05-23T15:44:00.000-07:00

what a fish... un poison chat by ~capix80

Arugula Thong Find

2008-05-21T19:09:00.001-07:00

I guess she forgot her makeup

2008-05-18T16:54:00.000-07:00

Beautiful Koi

2008-05-17T15:39:00.000-07:00

Beautiful koi by ~moon-pookah

Artist's Comments
Koi is the name of Japan carp.[link]

Wait, I thought it was a kind of fish?

koi by ~angeloluha

Koi Mermaid by ~kani-za

Foreclosure Fish Find

2008-05-10T17:46:00.000-07:00

Details at Baab!

Koi Suicide

2008-05-07T07:57:00.001-07:00

From Allanced.

How did Casey stay so emaciated?

2008-05-04T19:22:00.000-07:00

Despite a reputation for using healthy, fresh ingredients, Chipotle's menu is limited to king-size burritos, overstuffed tacos, and gigantic salads—all of which lead to a humongous waistline.

The same article mentions menu items from Macaroni Grill and Jamba Juice. Perhaps his miracle weight loss secret is his true path to fortune. BTW, the attentive may notice a nod to Benoit™ in this post.

Try the Train

2008-05-03T09:25:00.001-07:00

Via Shorpy.

Giant Koi

2008-05-02T12:26:00.001-07:00

Kintaro Struggles with Giant Carp (Kuniyoshi, ca. 1835)

Kintaro in the Fifth Month, Riding a Carp (Yoshitsuya, ca. 1840)

Kintaro is closely associated with Children’s Day (May 5), when parents of young boys typically display Kintaro dolls — usually riding a large carp — in the hope that their kids grow up to be brave and strong.

The Casey of Yesteryear

2008-04-23T12:00:00.000-07:00

30 Incredibly Odd Book Titles 2008 - Get more documents

Salmon

2008-04-21T16:38:00.000-07:00

...Or koi?
Sally Mon

Happy Caturday

2008-04-20T10:54:00.000-07:00

Clicky

My koi dream

2008-04-15T19:55:00.000-07:00

Last night I dreamed that I had a salmon (that's a kind of a fish), but it was called a koi in the dream. Akubi and I were trying to get the ~~salmon~~koi into a washing machine full of water for safekeeping, but it didn't want to be there and kept jumping out. Oddly, there was plenty of room in the machine for the several-foot-long ~~salmon~~koi.

An Engineer's Guide to Cats

2008-04-12T11:07:00.000-07:00

Koi Girls

2008-04-11T16:56:00.001-07:00

Mochime via otomano

Infinite Tanuki Reflection

2008-04-05T21:05:00.000-07:00

Tanuki Girl

2008-04-02T20:15:00.000-07:00

The Tanuki (Japanese racoon-dog),as with fox (Kitsune), is a popular character in Japanese folklore. The mythical Tanuki is often mischievous and jolly, he is thought to be able to shape shift, and sometimes believed to be a transformation of the souls of household goods that were used for one hundred years or more and several shrines have stories of past priests who were tanuki in disguise.
Although quite a trickster he is also gullible and easily distracted.
One well-known tale involving the Tanuki is that of “Bunbuku Chagama”
(rough translation,’happiness bubbling over like a tea pot). The story is of a poor man who finds a tanuki caught in a trap, he sets him free and then returns home.
That night, the tanuki comes to the poor mans house to thank him for his kindness. The Tanuki transforms himself into a teapot (chagama) and tell the man to sell him for money.
The man sells the teapot to a monk, who brings it home, cleans it and sets it over a fire to boil water, as the heat rises around him the tanuki sprouts legs and runs, half transformed, out the door and back to the poor man. This time the tanuki instructs the man to set up a roadside attraction and charge admission for people to see a teapot walking a tightrope. The plan works with the man no longer poor and giving the strange-looking tanuki a safe home.
::Tanuki Girl::

Deployed TN Soldier’s Dog

2008-03-26T22:51:00.000-07:00

If you can't save humans(?)save innocent animals.

Thx

Plez tellz me ur not 4 Hilry

2008-03-25T18:38:00.001-07:00

Plez tellz me ur not 4 Hilry

Sweet Deal of a Tattoo

2008-03-22T17:32:00.000-07:00

Buddy Tattoos

Also, don't forget to vote for the 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Ashley Alexandra Dupre winner!

Nun with a Gun

2008-03-21T12:08:00.000-07:00

via Blonde Zombies

Koi Scarification

2008-03-17T13:00:00.001-07:00

...Originally a phoenix was requested but when we started drawing the design on, with all the old scars a koi just seemed to fit much better with the scales in the direction of her scars. I actually removed some of the old scars to get things level and tried to create a level scar in a field of uneven scar tissue. As you see in the drawing, some scales were also going to be removal for a spotted koi look, but some of the scars’ roots were just to deep to do all at once, so we got the outline done. I’m quite pleased with the results thus far. I’m sure when we add some grey wash to the piece it will give the entire piece more depth and really take the emphasis off the old scars...

More at ModBlog
Don't forget to play 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Ashley Alexandra Dupre!

Whatever Happened To The Hot Cavewoman?

2008-03-13T15:18:00.000-07:00

The prehistoric film is in a state of crisis, and Roland Emmerich's imminent 10,000 BC doesn't help things one bit. A generation ago, inspired by trailblazers such as One Million Years BC (released in 1966), the genre provided a steady stream of edifying diversions - The Clan of the Cave Bear, Quest for Fire, Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja. All of these films featured leggy, empowered, strong, leggy, decisive, leggy, fearless but primarily leggy young women who had worked themselves into positions of tremendous power. But now, in a typically weasel-like attempt to make up for perceived past transgressions against feminism, male screenwriters and directors have purged the cheesecake element and dragged what had been a fairly racy genre right down into a bog of retroactive political correctness.
In today's postmodern prehistoric film, the women - rather than thundering across the Hyborian savannahs clad only in string bikinis stitched together from the carcasses of very tiny Jurassic marsupials, but doing so in a strong and empowered way - are simply shunted off to the sidelines. There, dressed quite sensibly for the primeval winter in blankets, scarves and stone age maxi-skirts, they revert to bland, traditional roles as nurturers, seers, bringers of light, bearers of good tidings. Meanwhile, the boys get to peel down to their skivvies, show off their six-packs and have all the fun. Were they dead, Sandahl Bergman, Brigitte Nielsen, Grace Jones, Raquel Welch and all the other warrior queens of yesteryear would be turning in their graves.

More from The women the script forgot

Ship Happens

2008-03-11T21:43:00.000-07:00

The M/V Artemis on the beach in France after the weekend's storms.

Low is a Height

2008-03-08T12:37:00.000-08:00

Introducing BossTard™

2008-03-07T23:19:00.000-08:00

This post from startup founder Jason Calacanis is making the rounds of the internet. There's some general common sense in there, but most of the tips are about extracting the most possible butt-hours per week from each employee. Ther are a couple that drew special attention, though:

Don't buy a phone system. No one will use it. No one at Mahalo has a desk phone except the admin folks. Everyone else is on IRC, chat, and their cell phone. Everyone has a cell phone, folks would rather get calls on it, and 99% of communication is NOT on the phone. Savings? At least $500 a year per person... 50 people over three years? $75-100k

Hmm... does BossTard's company pay for the business calls employees are expected to use their cell phones for? Somehow I suspect not.

But the part that's attracted the most ire is #11: Fire people who ~~are not workaholics.~~ don't love their work... come on folks, this is startup life, ~~it's not a game~~. don't work at a startup if you're not into it--go work at the post office or stabucks if you're not into it ~~you want balance in your life. For realz.~~

The strikethroughs are BossTard's, representing edits made after the flames started rolling in. Despite his statements to the contrary, I think the original is truer to the rest of the post and probably represents what he really thinks. The rest of the post is all about keeping employees parked in front of their computers for as many hours as possible. Fine. A lot of startups work that way. I prefer to avoid them, but I recognize that they exist and some people thrive in them. But next to his 17 points about how to keep as little average distance between butts and chairs is his Twitter widget:

Now, I'm sure that's a reaction to the criticism he's attracted and an attempt to distance himself from his original position. Still, I wonder just how many of Mahalo.com's employees have been home with their families living a balanced life all evening. I suspect that a comparison of BossTard's average hours against his employees' would be rather telling.

Welcome to the Caseysphere, BossTard.

By the way, I've noticed that when I'm doing creative work I tend to get more done in the 15 minute walk to get coffee than in an hour at my desk.

How about some tea?

2008-03-07T13:55:00.000-08:00

Amanda's Autopsies

Fix and flip

2008-03-05T13:49:00.000-08:00

While I wait for various notworks to come back up so I can get some looser W-2 stuff done, I thought I'd post this long but interesting article about righting a capsized car carrier.

A Series of Tubes

2008-03-04T08:48:00.000-08:00

Remains of the old steam-powered internet? Whatever it is, I can easily imagine something tentacled and Lovecraftian crawling around in it.

Source

I feel this tattoo is pretty self-explanatory — I mean, where else would a George W. Bush tattoo go?

2008-03-03T18:37:00.000-08:00

BUSH STOMP! at ModBlog

Famous Hot Doggery

2008-03-03T14:12:00.000-08:00

Since 1973, the griddled frankfurters at Gray’s Papaya, home of the $3.50 “Recession Special” (two franks and a 14-ounce drink), have been served with fresh fruit juices, tangy sauerkraut and a side of politics.
BTW, I particularly liked this quote in the story:
“I’m here for the hot dogs and the papaya drink,” said Mona Walsh, 54, in between the last couple of bites of her amply garnished frank. “Even if Gray’s Papaya were supporting the most deplorable candidate imaginable and there was a big sign about it out front, I’d still be here eating hot dogs.”

Cephalopod Man

2008-02-29T14:04:00.001-08:00

Unusual Holidays

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

2008-02-28T18:14:00.000-08:00

EL CULTO

A Devil's Haircut In My Mind

2008-02-22T17:01:00.000-08:00

A Devil's Haircut In My Mind by ~xXvampireloverXx

Change you can’t Xerox

2008-02-22T14:50:00.000-08:00

Fresh off the heels of last night’s debate, here’s some change you can’t Xerox. Artist duo and creative agriculturists, the Date Farmers, are releasing this hand made limited edition campaign print (300pcs.) in support of Barack Hussein Obama. They’re being peddled via Upper Playground and the ‘Farmers’ are promising to use all the proceeds to make and mass-distribute more posters throughout Texas, which is holding it’s primary on March 4th and could help determine the Democratic presidential candidate.
More at ‘Farmers’ For Obama

I must have psychedelic reinforcements!

2008-02-21T14:01:00.000-08:00

Little Annie Fanny Takes A Trip

Vanishing America / Cuba

2008-02-15T21:45:00.000-08:00

Lots more from Michael Eastman.

Edgar sightings

2008-02-15T16:51:00.000-08:00

Home is where the heart is

2008-02-14T11:24:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentine's Day!

Ben Lawson's "Home is where the heart is" series. The Ichthyological Specimens are also worth noting.

Perversion with a touch of class

2008-02-09T15:59:00.000-08:00

I thought this was cute.

playmedesign features Nicole Locher

Enormous Breading Pool Required

2008-02-08T11:58:00.001-08:00

Photographer and Goliath Grouper

Arowana, a unique kind of fish

2008-02-06T15:52:00.001-08:00

The female arowana just lays the eggs & its the responsibility of the male arowana to take care of them. Cool huh!
It is the male who needs to workout the rest of the stuff by ferti1izing the eggs, store them in his mouth & care for them, they are the mouthbreeders. And this whole process can take up to 40 to 50 days... Amazing Arowana.

grumble

2008-02-01T14:18:00.000-08:00

For Akubi (the dog, not the blogger) Casey Serin

2008-01-30T18:34:00.000-08:00

Tentacles Out of Reach

2008-01-29T19:40:00.000-08:00

Out of reach
by Dave Rau

More tentacle finds of the day:
Reasonably SFW
NSFW

Sorry I had to crosspost my Octoboyz

2008-01-26T20:57:00.000-08:00

Weeping Octopus

2008-01-25T13:38:00.000-08:00

Alberto Cerritino

Eery Tentacles

2008-01-24T11:27:00.000-08:00

Wisteria

Bloodroot

Adela Leibowitz

Octopi hung out to dry

Check out the octopus toilet seat at Edgar's Toilet!

I'm not very likely to eat my friends

2008-01-24T09:50:00.000-08:00

22%

How about you?

Koi Girl

2008-01-24T09:23:00.001-08:00

and an octopus too!
Fuco Ueda via Ectomo

Orange Crush

2008-01-23T21:19:00.000-08:00

Captured Koi

2008-01-23T14:41:00.001-08:00

captured koi by ~juliecoffey

intimates on wooden floors by ~juliecoffey

Don't forget to vote for the 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Hillary Clinton winner!

Jellyfish in the Sky

2008-01-22T10:56:00.000-08:00

KISHIBOJIN via Daily · Dreamtime

OCTPUS

Lego Cyclopean Horror

2008-01-20T10:13:00.000-08:00

More here.

Dust to Dust

2008-01-19T16:49:00.000-08:00

Tree growing in rotting paper, Detroit Public Schools book depository.

Info and more pictures

Play 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Hillary Clinton!

2008-01-17T08:47:00.000-08:00

Casey Fannnnn's Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here

In honor of the one year anniversary of 6 Degrees of Casey Serin and Casey's appearance on the Dr. Phil Show we have a new game to play: 6 Degrees of Casey to Hillary Clinton. Woohoo! Win-Win!

Hillary-ism by ~Bongaboi

Kimiko Yoshida's Self-Portraits

2008-01-15T09:24:00.000-08:00

The Bride with a nô Mask, 2005

The Bride with the Mask of Herself, 2002

The Sakura Bride, 2006

The Green Tea Bride, 2006

Kimiko Yoshida via Pink Tentacle's Brides of Kimiko Yoshida

Why did we put our heads together?

2008-01-14T19:50:00.001-08:00

To save money!

More sweet finds along the lines of And you thought Ritalin was good...

Another crazy Thorazine agenda: This patient must not vomit! Woohoo!

Misunderstandings

2008-01-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

It seems that the government of Sudan got a little upset about a nuclear test that we didn't do there in 1962.

It all started a week ago when a congresswoman commented on a nuclear test called Project Sedan. She was misquoted as saying "Project Sudan". Before anyone in the US government knew it, the Sudanese government was demanding explanations and the Chinese media was claiming that the US was responsible for a spike in cancer in Sudan. Apparently itsallgood now though. Linky

The Dildo Diaries

2008-01-13T15:49:00.000-08:00

It turns out that in Texas, it's a felony to posess more than five ~~dildos~~ educational models. This video on the subject is long but funny. If you don't want to watch the whole thing, at least catch the last 45 seconds.

Misheard Lyrics

2008-01-12T14:42:00.000-08:00

(SFW unless your workplace is so uptight that crude line drawings of testicles get you in trouble)

Tentacle Artist

2008-01-11T11:25:00.001-08:00

Milk via Daily Dreamtime

And you thought Ritalin was good

2008-01-09T20:00:00.000-08:00

There's more where that came from.

World's fattest cat dies

2008-01-06T13:12:00.001-08:00

Details here.

Cthulhu for President 2008

2008-01-04T16:47:00.000-08:00

Cthulhu 2008 via Ectomo

The Toy Club

2008-01-01T14:30:00.000-08:00

Vintage Japanese ads via Little Hokum Rag

Just a few sketches

2007-12-30T22:38:00.000-08:00

These are supposedly futurist sketches drawn in 1929. However they lack the grandiose vision of such things, and several of them are clearly drawings of real objects that didn't exist until the 1930s or later: Hoover Dam, Shasta Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, the Oakland Bay Bridge, a P-38, a B-17, and UN Headquarters.

However, some of the drawings have a fanciful quality to them.

Others have a touch of Gotham City.

Others are just very well executed drawings of everyday stuff.

Like Dolphins Can SWIM

2007-12-28T23:46:00.001-08:00

Distractions

2007-12-28T16:50:00.001-08:00

distractions. by ~eHSiiCa

Gowing nowhere... by ~d-oracle

Koi Banana Redhead

2007-12-22T13:33:00.001-08:00

For some reason this image of Christiane reminds me of a cross between a koi and a banana.

6 Degrees Of Casey Serin

The Akubi Zone!

Amanda's Southern Comfort

A Beautiful Death

Spiral Sad Puppy Panties

Bitter Sweet and Sour

American Beauty

Snow

Murst

Turn the Page

Breaking News Update: Casey's Hotel Found!

Large Hadron Collider web cam

Sarah Palin has a Gun

12 Tips for Living Out of Your Car

Ghost Riding Grandma

10 Reasons Why Casey Serin Sucks

6 Degrees of Fail

Resistance is Futile

RIP Colin

Yapping Pack of Pomeranians

Happy Fish in Iceland

I never would have expected this...

Maximum Lean Angle

Signs for your yard

Mmm. Sexy.

Koi Maid

Koi Kihagaki

Preznit giv me turkee

I am aware of all internet traditions

Caught a big fish!

Koi feeding frenzy

Happy Fishnet Friday!

Arugula Thong Find

I guess she forgot her makeup

Beautiful Koi

Foreclosure Fish Find

Koi Suicide

How did Casey stay so emaciated?

Try the Train

Giant Koi

The Casey of Yesteryear

Salmon

Happy Caturday

My koi dream

An Engineer's Guide to Cats

Koi Girls

Infinite Tanuki Reflection

Tanuki Girl

Deployed TN Soldier’s Dog

Plez tellz me ur not 4 Hilry

Sweet Deal of a Tattoo

Nun with a Gun

Koi Scarification

Whatever Happened To The Hot Cavewoman?

Ship Happens

Low is a Height

Introducing BossTard™

How about some tea?

Fix and flip

A Series of Tubes

I feel this tattoo is pretty self-explanatory — I mean, where else would a George W. Bush tattoo go?

Famous Hot Doggery

Cephalopod Man

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

A Devil's Haircut In My Mind

Change you can’t Xerox

I must have psychedelic reinforcements!

Vanishing America / Cuba

Edgar sightings

Home is where the heart is

Perversion with a touch of class

Enormous Breading Pool Required

Arowana, a unique kind of fish

*grumble*

For Akubi (the dog, not the blogger) Casey Serin

Tentacles Out of Reach

Sorry I had to crosspost my Octoboyz

Weeping Octopus

Eery Tentacles

I'm not very likely to eat my friends

grumble