Geoff Geis

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Listen/purchase: Break Stuff (Freddie are you Okay?) by Geoff Geis featuring Urban Street Poet MCDC (aka Dan Collins)

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I'm really excited for three months of events and workshops at the old location of Echo Curio in Echo Park. It's... Echo Chamber!

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This is tomorrow night at the Smell! Presented by KXLU.

RSVP on Facebook! Click here.

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This is us at Pehrspace on Friday with an invitation to see us at the Smell next Friday. Remember that freedom of choice isn't freedom from pain, y'all. Filmed by Fudge Dredd. 

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Here is the second recording from Soft Sailors! Soft Sailors is the name of my new band with Jenna Eyrich, Tyler Sabbag, and Duncan Thum.

We play tomorrow night at Pehrspace (325 Glendale Blvd in Los Angeles) -- it's our first show! Hopefully you'll consider coming. After all, we've been practicing! The show is being presented by Mountair and will also feature Untoward Children, GalaxyKat, and Flight Crew.

You can RSVP to our first show on Facebook. Also, you can read a bit more about the band over here or at LA Record's Staff Blog.

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The Mini Book of Major Events – a barebones take on world history from illustrator Evan Lorenzen, the minimalist version of Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. 

(via Laughing Squid and the rest of the internet)

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This is a "teaser single." Hopefully it'll make you want more... 

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We love you, Michael Sam

http://geoffgeis.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/we-love-you-michael-sam/

I wrote this in response to some hateful and ignorant garbage I stumbled across yesterday. 

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During their courtship a young man regularly sent his fiancée letters in envelopes on which he made a series of winningly charming and funny drawings.The examples here make up a small part of a larger collection. The Marin County (California) Free Public Library has published this description:

The 46 illustrated envelopes presented here were hand-colored by Joseph Dennis McNeil, and sent, with a few exceptions, to his fiancée,Ellen Josephine Redding, who was living in Nicasio and San Rafael during their courtship. This collection spans the years 1925 to about1933. At this time, Joseph was working for Schmidt Lithograph Company in San Francisco and then in Los Angeles. Joe and Ellen had met as youngsters in Nicasio. They were married on August 9, 1928… Joe and Ellen raised their family in Los Angeles.  Joe and Ellen were married for 47 years before Joe passed away on August 8, 1975. Shortly afterwards,Ellen relocated from Los Angeles to the family property in Nicasio with one of her daughters, Martha. On June 13, 1987, Ellen died at the age of 87.  Read and listen to Ellen Redding McNeil’s oral history interview from July 15, 1980: http://contentdm.marinlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/ohp/id/691

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This is tomorrow.  A little bit of a departure: it’s a fundraiser for Franklin Elementary School.   This parent band is the one that Mary and Eli play in once a year.  Parent Band is all covers.  Mary is singing Sabotage, for instance.  Admission is $5 or a donation of school supplies. With an all-parent lineup. Music starts at 8:30. Marty Barrett and Fogelfoot Josh Lewis Alright Alright Bad Mother Fathers (The Franklin Parent Band) Dawn of Sequins

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I'm going to pay to get into this show with #2 pencils.

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In Focus: Upside-Down Houses

Around the world, a number of groups looking to draw tourists have constructed upside-down houses, complete with inverted furnishings and decor. Collected here are photos of four recent examples of his topsy-turvy architecture in China, Russia, Germany, and Austria, As a bonus, all of the interior shots are interactive — click on them to flip the view and see it “right side up”.

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The problem with Cliven Bundy isn’t that he is a racist but that he is an oafish racist. He invokes the crudest stereotypes, like cotton picking. This makes white people feel bad. The elegant racist knows how to injure non-white people while never summoning the specter of white guilt. Elegant racism requires plausible deniability, as when Reagan just happened to stumble into the Neshoba County fair and mention state’s rights. Oafish racism leaves no escape hatch, as when Trent Lott praised Strom Thurmond’s singularly segregationist candidacy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, on the different kinds of racism in American society. (via theatlantic)

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Featuring ex-members of Pizza! and Big Whup.

http://soundcloud.com/geis256 

We can use some help with a band name... 

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Why Men Don’t Stand Up for Their Female Colleagues

The percent of women in executive-officer positions at Fortune 500 companies has stagnated at less than 15. As more women “lean in: and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there’s another barrier to progress that hasn’t been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent. Of Amazon’s 100 top-selling books this week about women and business, a grand total of four were written by men, and the first one doesn’t appear until far down the list. In the media, the most vocal advocates for women are influential women, including Sheryl Sandberg, Condoleezza Rice, Arianna Huffington, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Christine Lagarde, Sallie Krawcheck, Beyoncé, and Michelle Obama. Why aren’t more men stepping up to support gender parity in the upper echelons of organizations?

Read more. [Image: MCAD Library/ Flickr]