Author Archives: Wes Unruh

Quaint Media and Today’s Memetic Ecology

Written by Wes Unruh. Filed under Marketing, quaint media. 1 Comment.
This report begins where Gary Goldhammer begins, by stating that all media is social. The struggle today is between this notion of traditional, even quaint, media and convergence culture’s interactive narrative across a transmedia platform built for modular exposure of storytelling elements. Quaint media then is media that remains tied into a single [...]

…A Man Leaves Town.

Written by Wes Unruh. Filed under The Yellow Sign, cameras, cell phones, dysprosium, iPods, llama II, lutetium, missionary moc, mythos, text messages, thulium, yellow sign, yttrium. 1 Comment.
…A Man Leaves Town. A Yellow Sign Tale Wes Unruh Lucy whipped the batter. “My arm’s sore!” “Just a little bit longer, dear,” Mother said. “Until there’s no more clumps.” A box of cake mix and a can of diet coke mixed together, no egg, no water or oil. That’s not the way it said to do it on the box, [...]

A Man Comes To Town…

Written by Wes Unruh. Filed under Fiction, The Yellow Sign, wes unruh. 3 Comments.
A Man Comes To Town… A Yellow Sign Tale Wes Unruh Twilight, new moon dancing through the sky where leaves twisted on the trees. Curt stared up through the window, laying across the backseat of the family car. Dad was driving. “We never go to church on Sunday nights.” Curt complained. “There’s a man coming [...]

Philip K Nixon – 1ibereal (Remix)

Written by Wes Unruh. Filed under Philip K Nixon. Tagged , . No comments.
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Obscenity Woven into High School Yearbook Cover

Written by Wes Unruh. Filed under Books, Week In Review, Weird, high school, obscenity on yearbook cover, pranks, yearbooks. Tagged , . 2 Comments.
A high school student pulled one over on the school administration and graduated before her work was discovered. Sadly she’s been forced to pay for and apply stickers to the covers of all the remaining yearbooks, and, being the senior yearbook editor she’s probably feeling pretty fucking stupid… but I thought it was [...]

The Art of Memetics on Amazon

Written by Wes Unruh. Filed under Books, Site News, memetics. Tagged . Comments Off.
The book @fenris23 and @zenwerewolf wrote and published is now on amazon – since it’s also freely available online via the snazzy image on the left sidebar over there, we only ask that, if you’ve enjoyed it or found it useful, that you let other amazon readers know by fleshing out the comments.

Twin Peaks on CBS.Com

Written by Wes Unruh. Filed under Cinema, Twin Peaks, Web, Weird, david lynch. Tagged , , , . No comments.
CBS is hosting the entire run of Twin Peaks! (Well, except for season 2 episode 18, which is mysteriously missing from their site. Fortunately there’s an excellent torrent out there where you might find the missing episode). One of my favorite television series, even with its occasional flaws, Twin Peaks is remarkably [...]