Sometimes you come across something on the web that is hard to resist letting others know about. Being an ongoing Tokyophile, I was alerted to these images via a couple of feeds in my Tweetdeck (a tool that lets you keep track of what's going on in your Twitterverse). If you count the surrounding pr...

Between this Monday's release of the latest covers-stuffed War Child charity album—which includes the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' take on "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" and Lily Allen's drowsy reworking of "Straight To Hell"—and the "what are your favorite cover songs" meme going around Facebook lately,...

  In these trying economic times, you can at least be thankful you don't live in one of these ten horrendous U.S. metropolitan areas. Wait, you don't actually live in these places, dear readers, do you? Strollerderby directed us to this Forbes list of the ten worst places to live in the...

The Grammys 2009: +Whitney Houston- Seriously? I sorta hate her. And why is she showing leg? stop. +Is The Rock trying to pull a Joaquin Phoenix by giving up 'acting' for stand up? +Mr. JT= +Coldplay is the new Dave Matthews Band. They're talented, of course, but they're getting the follow- (OMG JAY...

Drool. Matador is making life miserable for those of us without the funds to buy all of the special edition stuff that will be released for this year’s Record Store Day, which takes place April 18. They’ve got stuff from Jay Reatard, Sonic Youth, Beck and Pavement. Per the Matablog: In h...

Song Lyric of the Day: Should I give up / Or should I just keep chasing pavements / Even if it leads nowhere / Or would it be a waste / Even if i knew my place should I leave it there Adele / " Chasing Pavements " So this meme is circulating among my friends on Facebook, and I thought I'd post it he...

Pavement’s 1997 album, Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. , was reissued this month, though it doesn’t include their single “Gangsters and Pranksters.� They played it at a crowded show at the Middle East basement in Cambridge in February 1997, when S.M. sang: “I’ve got all this H...

lacrotte Uploaded by jonnbo Wish I'd learned about these guys when I started this blog... need to rethink strategy... flags + Google = clean pavements? Can concerned citizens of Toulouse do what the Marie cannot for a tad less than......

Just a thought here. Say you had 100, 200, 300, whatever photos of shit on the pavements of Toulouse. All in one place - say on this blog, clearly titled by location and maybe tourist spot, but linked to   from 100s of blogs. Theoretically, anyone then googling for Toulouse, or a specific ...

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