Scott Beale

Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.
NewsRex Dinosaur Comics

NewsRex Dinosaur Comics

What do you get when you combine Reuters’ RSS feeds of news stories and Dinosaur Comics? The hilarious NewsRex by Chris Noessel. Thanks for the…

Santarchy!

Santarchy! – Now With Blog

I’ve recently re-launched the Santarchy! website as a blog, using WordPress of course. It was just in time for the Auckland, New Zealand Santarchy controversy.…

Last Gasp Holiday Party 2005

Last Gasp Holiday Party 2005

Last night was underground comic and book publisher Last Gasp’s annual “Burritos, Beer & Cheer” holiday party, which they have been hosting for over 30…

They Might Be Giants Podcast

photo by Scott Beale from a 2002 They Might Be Giants’ show at McNear’s Mystic Theater in Petaluma Wake up and smell the cat food,…

Boing Boing

Boing Boing Issue #1

Mark Frauenfelder just uploaded the first issue of Boing Boing from 1989, back when it was a zine, which then morphed into a magazine, later…

BraBall

The BraBall Goes To AVAM

East Bay artist Emily Duffy’s BraBall, which was completed in 2003, has found a permanent home at Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum. AVAM is an…

Meetro

Meetro

Meetro is a location-based social network application with a built-in IM client. If you like Plazes or Dodgeball, then you should check out Meetro. More…

FeedBurner

FeedBurner, FeedFlare and New Feeds

So I’ve been using FeedBurner for our RSS feeds for almost year now and it keeps getting better. Today FeedBurner launched FeedFlare which adds a…

Santarchy!

San Francisco + Oakland Santarchy!

These are not the Santas you are looking for… Santarchy comes to San Francisco & Oakland this Saturday, December 17th. photo by JX Bell (San…

Zombie-Claus

Zombie-Claus 2005

Well it was bound to happen. Two of the biggest mob memes, santas and zombies, will finally come crashing together this Friday, December 16th at…