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.

Wall of Hair Bear

Is legendary record producer Phil Spector currently on trial for impersonating 70’s cartoon fashionista Hair Bear?

This just in from borg9, “The other white borg”: borg9 is pleased to announce its art grant for Burning Man 2005, which by unanimous vote,…

photo by Scott Beale Mark Perez will be running his amazing Life Size Game of Mouse Trap tomorrow, Saturday, May 21st down at his barn…

Chuck Palahniuk is in the Bay Area this week to promote his new book “Haunted”. We first met Chuck back in 1996 during the Portland…

photo by Scott Beale Ok, this is it. Tonight’s installment of “Ask Dr. Hal”, “When Rhedosaurs call it quits! “, is the last Ask Dr.…

Mark Dery, who helped explain and expand on the term “culture jamming” is giving a lecture on Thursday, May 18th at Rx Gallery in San…

photo by Scott Beale Ok, this is it. The final week of The Odeon Bar is upon us. Chicken John has sold our little clubhouse…

Ok, I just got the word from Eddie, after a 4 year hiatus, Webzine 2005 is now a reality and will be happen on Saturday,…

Back in February we posted that last year’s Power Tool Drag Races was being shown on The Discovery Channel as a four part series. Well…

I met some really great people and shot a few photos at last night’s SFlickr Meetup (a local gathering of Flickr users). It took place…