SCIENCE EXPERIMENT:

Playing 9 lines per spin, one cent per roll, with each horizontal point the dollar amount left in the machine after each track of the new Woozyhelmet CD, a record that has provided us much joy since the first catch we got of the unmastered tracks.  Party punkie fun indie quiet loud bang bang [...]

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POLL: Which is the cheaper costume - Sara Palin or that lady that carved the backwards B in her face?  I dunno, but thank god for those two, because now we all have some cheap ways to dress up in a hurry.  Oh crap, what about dudes.  Hipster once again.
FRIDAY
Rusted Shut (12″ Relase Party) and [...]

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WHY does Halloween rule, even as a growns up? PARTIES. And this year is great because that hallowed eve falls on a Friday, leading many in our great town to pull out more stops than a presidential tour bus. We’re so rather IN BLISS about all the options, that we’ve decided to [...]

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FIRST OFF: Ryan Chavez. The man cannot get credit enough for last evening (or in general). Not only does he, and his Superunison-izing co-horts (aside: are there any anymore?), bring bands like The Walkmen and The Little Ones into town, but then, when local lusters Young Mammals need a drummer, he fills in. [...]

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HEY - WHAT KIND OF COLA WOULD SHASTAKOVITCH DRINK? Shasta. If you’re retching and reaching for a mouse with which to exit this site due to that awful Dad joke, you know it’s that time again - DUMB QUESTIONS/SMART ANSWERS. Yep, that occasional column where we dig deep into our bag of [...]

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Us? Well, little olde us are scheduled to be in transit between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Denver, Colorado on that particular eve of hallows. It’s totally top secret and totally the result of some of the worst scheduling ever. But here’s what we would suggest you do (and we’re suggesting it based not merely [...]

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Cannot deny it, the folks at the Free Press have put together another WHIPS OF ACES lineup for their twice-annual block party. All this week, we’ll be helping battle your OH NO, WHICH SHOW TO GO? malady with a shot in the arm of our thoughts on some recent releases by Block Party acts. And [...]

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Oh man. Look at that little baby. Oh man. She’s beautiful. It’s like Tony Balls and Sabra Laval had a lovechild made of FOUR STROKE POWER. Oh man. Let’s start off by giving BIG UPS to friends of humanity Dana and Shelia Wright of Sugarland, whose generosity is matchless like [...]

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OOOOOOOOOH FIZZLE BIZZLE. You know, in the midst of a truly LOL Vice Presidential vetting disaster, it’s harder than Gary Hart to compete for your attention - and we recognize this. But fortunately, some news that will in no way raise to the DailyKos or Redstate radar has come across our desks and [...]

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FAAHQ. We can’t seem to write anything today. FAAHQ. So, rather than try to lure you in with some sort of metanarrative that we connect to the events of this weekend in a way that makes you think we have too much time on our hands, we’re going to surrender to log-jam [...]

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