1. "Use space money on U.S. needs"

    LETTERS IN THE EDITOR’S MAILBAG: The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.

    Haha.. tHE bOY pointed out this awesome headline in today’s Register-Guard letters to the editor section. Of course, it means money spent on space exploration, but I like the other, unintended, meaning.

    http://spacemoney.wordpress.com/

    Register-Guard Ticket Files on Leap Day space money event 

  2. “Dean of American Rock Critics”
  3. Good news.  The Randomz were very disappointed the last time we went in and found the many of our favorite tapas had been pulled from the menu.  And the items that remained seemed created in a heavy-handed manner with too much salt.  We don’t want expensive bar food.  So, we may try again!  Thanks, El Vaquero!
  4. "U. Utah Phillips has passed away in his sleep at 11:30PM PDT on May 23, 2008."
  5. "It may in fact be contradictory to note all these various strugglers & madmen and then pronounce certain anethemas. But with compassion for the victims of the “Culture of Death” that we all must know too well by now, let us be clear in championing the long-sufferering, true peacemakers everywhere. And loudly from the rooftops hear us shout it —- “Down with the New Age and the proliferation of pet ideologies that only divide hearts on Sacred Observance, and play directly into the hands of globalist hegemonic powers. Up with the simple inextinguishable Light of Truth”."
  6. Downloading and streaming optionsDirect link to MP3 file

    Playlist:
    Nikki & The Corvettes - Girls Like Me/Let’s Go
    Retching Red - Blue Kid Trapped In A Red State
    Anti Kool Vultures - CoolTube
    Black Mountain - Druganaut
    Camper Van Beethoven - The Humid Press Of Days
    Fierce Mary - Femme Fatale
    Made Of Skin - Permeable Shrew
    The Minibosses - Castlevania 2 
    Genesis - The Battle Of Epping Forest
    Anti Kool Vultures - Theory Of Cool
    Fierce Mary - She Don’t Use Jelly
    Hedwig And The Angry Inch - Tear Me Down
    Talking Heads - The Girls Want To Be With The Girls
    Lullabye Arkestra - Y’Make Me Shake
    Kleveland - ESP
    The Mood - Cruisin Song Bonus Round
    Hedwig (cast recording) - Random Number Generation
    Retching Red - Smoke Yourself Sick
    Made Of Skin - W
    Lullabye Arkestra - Bulldozer Of Love
  7. We gotta wait until 2009, damn it!
  8. "The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking cessation: A smoker is more likely to kick the habit if a spouse, friend, co-worker or sibling did. What’s more, smokers tend to quit in groups and those who don’t stop puffing increasingly find themselves pushed to the edge of their social circles, the researchers found."
  9. "Remember how we’ve always been told that free markets and free people go hand in hand? That was a lie. It turns out that the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state, fortressed with American “homeland security” technologies, pumped up with “war on terror” rhetoric. And the global corporations currently earning superprofits from this social experiment are unlikely to be content if the lucrative new market remains confined to cities such as Shenzhen. Like everything else assembled in China with American parts, Police State 2.0 is ready for export to a neighborhood near you."
  10. THE OVULATORS - “Troubadour From Another Time” on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

    This is better quality than the YouTube version. 

  11. Playlist:
    Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Summertime
    Angry Foreign Roommate - Carpet Jackin’
    Team Gina - ButchFemme
    The Beastie Boys - Right Right Now Now
    World/Inferno Friendship Society - The Brother of the Mayor of Bridgewater
    Blondie - For Your Eyes Only
    The Pipettes - Dirty Mind
    The Epoxies - This Day
    Pierced Arrows - Caroline
    Sick Sick Sister - The Deader The Better
    The Rhythm Pimps - Welcome To Hollywood
    Brian Kenney Fresno - That’s Who
    The Minibosses - Kraig Metroid
    Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
    Wow And Flutter - Black Sea
    Kaia - No Drama
    Kimya Dawson - I Like Giants
    LiLiPUT - Split
    Eldufe and the New Depression - Hau Veg den Nazi Dreck
    Ron Randall - Black Blue Blood
    The Rolling Stones - 2000 Man
    The Heats - Let’s All Smoke