Celebrate John McCain giving Barack Obama a free ride to the White House. I don't know about you, but I'm really excited about Barack Obama, and this is my homage to his race to the Presidency.
"Discover what happens when your streets turn into parks Oct. 5 and Oct. 26 for Sunday Parkways!
Car traffic will be closed along a linear route from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on these days for you and your family to explore Chicago’s beautiful neighborhoods in fun and active ways.
Bring your bikes, scooters, strollers or just yourself for Sunday Parkways — a first-ever event in Chicago when the streets are transformed into vibrant and physically active scenes."
Johnathan Hodgman's "The Area Of My Expertise" is a highly entertaining 7 hours of completely fabricated hilarity.
The book is more of a comedy album in the style of an almanac than anything else. John teams up with John Coultan on guitar and manages to breathe comedic timing and vocal deadpanning in ways the book could never bring. Even verbatim readings of tables bring an interesting rendition to book.
The almanac covers topics such as Omens, portents, Eels, Hobos, and Famous D&D Matchups. The culmination of the book is a 1 hour reading of over 700 made-up hobo names. Highly recommended.
Who would like this album: Followers of the Daily Show
Who would hate this album: People without a sense of humor. Someone who couldn't stand a work of fiction parading as fact.
Timber! A delightful collection of hand drawn lumberjacks and nostalgia. Pictured here is a lumberjack shirt, printed on an American Apparel Shirt. That's too soft for a lumberjack!
You want to become an activist but you're too lazy? How about a compressed one-day direct action campaign? What I want to know is why it's alright to celebrate and honor military tradition, yet this comic is tasteless?
Someone invented an awesome flash application that stores a database of celebrities and organizations. It then allows you to explore them in a magical six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon extravaganza.
Watch as Lynrd Skynryd is linked to Alcoholics Anonymous via Zakk Wylde via Ozzy Osbourne.
I would just like to point out that those geniuses at Nasa have invented a sensor on the Mars lander which is suspiciously similar to a "Weather rock" (see below).
a dry rock means fair weather.
a wet rock means it's raining.
a dusty rock means a dust storm.
a swaying rock means it's windy.
a shadow under the rock means it's sunny.
a white rock means it's snowing.
if the rock is jumping up and down, an earthquake is upon us.
if the bottom of the rock is under water it's a
flood.
Basement Jaxx, Crazy Itch Radio, A meritous follow up to a stupendous career.
Basement Jaxx are hands down the masters of reinventing accessibly awesome dance music. They push the envelope by infusing rhythms and powerful noise that don't belong with the result of a dance track that every fratboy and trixie hum to themselves on Monday morning. Every track is "of course, that's the new limit of human achievement. But it's also a track I can send home to my family."
Crazy Itch Radio is the first album where BJ doesn't keep their upward momentum. It's not as hard hitting, not as innovative as previous efforts. To their credit, Basement Jaxx on their worst day are superior to most dance producers on their best. Let's hope they keep it up. They might raise the bar again.
Who would like this album: People who yearn for the embodiement of the extremes of human expression in dance music.
Who would hate this album: Oh, I don't know. Satanists? Perfection Junkies?
Justin Richel is a busy and talented artist. I was first attracted by his talking paintings, images with movable mouths. The rest of his artwork is equally intriguing. He seems to like to take historic images, themes, and art styles and stand them on their heads. A smart person will add his work to their walls.
