on the off chance that one of you out there has not yet come across the growing internet cult of admiration surrounding the admittedly admirable comic bill hicks i’ll first say, get with it, the poor guys been dead for almost 10 years, even the most un “with it” among you ought to have glommed on to his genius by now, and claimed it as a badge of your own coolness. secondly, well, nothing. i’ve collected some links here for you since we are approaching the 10 year anniversary of his passing. if your a long time fan, as i know some of you are (like tom, who introduced me to hicks and is thus “my daddy”) then hey, it’s always nice to visit him, right?
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just kidding. escher was cool i guess, but these folks had real balls. these people could easily have left their impossible, unworkable crap on the page and called it art, but instead they called them inventions, bragged about them, tried to impress the ladies by unfurling conceptual drawings of these devices on tavern tables, and in some cases went so far as to patent them. this is the museum of unworkable devices. it mostly focuses on perpetual motion machines but has a bunch of galleries. the best of which houses the water kiss sanitary drinking fountain. check it out and imagine these folks in your minds eye giving escher big nasty indian burns.

after 10 odd years or so of picking up all manner of treasure and ephemera on these junk strewn new york streets i quite suddenly stopped. no more room in the apartment for the piles, i guess, or maybe too distracted with the various little hatreds to notice. well, now like so many other things which we abandon to experience only vicariously ever after, here is your junk collecting fix minus the filthy piles and joys of the hunt. found magazine btw i noticed the the paper version is available at st. marks books.