Dig it: Imagine this at the Barnes & Noble table of worthless gift books, with my name on it (or the name of the connected asshole who already got an advance for it). Or imagine it arriving unbidden in your email from your Aunt, who sends you all sorts of stuff that was probably culled […]

http://youtube.com/v/1_XbYz9J4W0 Once again

http://youtube.com/v/ZCbyByY-A6w Another good reason

http://youtube.com/v/sKWnF8GxqO0 Finally, a reason for youtube

I just realized that the chorus to the Dead Milkmen’s “Bitchin’ Camaro” is the same tune as the chorus to that old jingle for Food Emporium supermarkets. It is too, you boys.

http://youtube.com/v/SirutCHZ-QI

http://youtube.com/v/KoNEspmcknc It makes the hairs on my neck standup

A friend and I have been backing and forth-ing about the current and final season of the best series ever produced for television. Reams have already been written (some better than others), but I’ll add: Few novels come close to the storytelling skill, importance, and breadth of the Wire. I almost want to call it […]

http://youtube.com/v/bb14rWGRYp4 “Ibitsu,” From Boris’s Akuma No Uta (PS – I have Boris’s forthcoming Smile. Not immediately impressed.)

The indie rock TO, a friend involved with the Mission Creek festival in Iowa emailed me this morning with a heads up about their exclusive scoring of a newly sanctioned mp3 leak of “Run,” from the new Gnarls Barkley album The Odd Couple, due out whenever the whole thing leaks, since I’m guessing only about […]