Hitched.

Even though you will like this I am tempted to file it under “Niche Spectacular”. Jangly brit-pop ala The Wedding Present? CHECK. Girls playing guitar? CHECK. Dueling, shout-y vocalists? CHECK. Spazzy Superchunk-y melodies? CHECK. The sum effect is a little bit like. If you melted a pound of cheddar and tried to serve for dinner, [...]

For a length of time when I was kid my father was a Party Clown. Long from being truth at this point, it’s degenerated into a kind of trivia, falling into that genre of factoid that’s meant to both spur a conversation of it’s doldrums and explore something deep and true about ourselves withour actually [...]

That was shockingly simple. Nuffin’ broke, except I had to re-add some permissions. I made a mix last Friday of things I was listening to in that week. I’ll probably do this every (BACKPEDAL: Other.) week.
Adventure-Lordeo
Dancing to chiptunes is the goofiest hobby this side of Steampunk, but when Adventure played the Dan Deacon/Round Robin show, [...]

Yesterday Murray bought an especially large potato. I started to wonder how big potatoes get. Well, today a fellow in Lebanon took the record for world’s largest potato. Behold:

Wells Tower is my favorite writer. For one, he has a great name and for two, he is an utter once-in-a-lifetime genius and I follow his writing the way some people follow the Grateful Dead. I have combed the stacks of college libraries, poring over back-issues of the Paris Review for a mere mention of [...]