October 2009
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The Dream Syndicate - “Halloween”
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Cheater Slicks - “Spanish Rose”
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TORTA JUSTICE in three parts
After being refused entree to the bar at the cool kids party last night I went home and dug into this three part video documentary on the Torta Justice installment of Inhuman Eating Machine that makes Man Vs. Food look like Nigella Lawson.
The video was shot and edited by two of my favorite Bay Area photographers (as well as people in general!) and our buddy Andy’s tendency to latch onto...
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Read The News on TermBo: Poutine at Fast Food...
So there’s a great thread raging over at the other place about Canadian fast food poutine. You heard it here first.
McDonald’s!
KFC!
Burger King!
Harvey’s!
Some Other Place!
Got a favorite fast food poutine?
“THE SANDWICHES OF MANHATTAN EDITION - Breakfast: An egg salad and bacon baguette...”
– Food Consumption Log - Week of October 25, 2009
PSA: So Chuck Biscuits isn't dead.
[via contacthigh]
It was a hoax.
We regret the error.
In other news, Big Boys frontman and pioneering gay punk Randy “Biscuit” Turner is still dead.
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Archie Bell & The Drells -...
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Member of Twin Stumps violently attacked - DONATE...
Hey I know I don’t usually use this forum for serious shit but this is something that needs to be passed along.
Michael Yaniro of the abrasive noise group Twin Stumps was violently attacked and robbed recently. He lacks medical coverage and has a long road to recovery ahead of him as well as several very urgent surgeries in order to restore some very basic functions to his face and eyes....
“Last Nite’s Dinner: 2 slices of sourdough bread smeared with the crab and...”
– Food Consumption Log - Week of October 25, 2009
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Hunx & His Punx - “I Won’t Get...
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Date Night in New York - White Table Cloths Are... →
“I came into town a one night stand guess my plans fell through” - Creedence
And thus is born false hope. Because dating in New York, as countless sitcoms, magazine articles and resolutely plucky blogs can attest, is no picnic. But let’s say that, through some quirk of dinner party seating or online profiling, you manage to meet someone.
So there is this trend piece in the Times...
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Gang Starr - “Blowin’ Up The...
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Larrydavidian - adjective;ˈlæridā'vĭdˈaɪən - of,...
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“[I]n a scene that was eerily Larrydavidian, I insisted on paying my half of the bill.”
Television, Processed Foods Couldn't Be More Proud... →
The Onion finally prints our raison d’être:
“It’s little things like that you remember most,” said Darnell, whose network also taught Madsen “everything he knows” about disconnecting from reality and staring slack-jawed out into space. “Just knowing that I played a small part in helping to emotionally and intellectually stunt another...
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DWI - at the wheel of La-Z-Boy | StarTribune.com →
The operator of a La-Z-Boy chair converted into a motorized vehicle — complete with a stereo and cup holders — has admitted that he crashed the piece of furniture after leaving a bar in Proctor, Minn., extremely drunk.
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Can Bill Cosby save hip-hop? | Music |... →
Hey all you crate diggers, rare groove aficionados, and beat junkies the original Black Godfather, the guy who along with Oprah allegedly forced Dave Chapelle outta the game for good, the zany sweater wearing Picture Pages hosting, Jello puddin puddin puddin pops pitchman, and father to Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy, and don’t forget he was also the voice of Mushmouth…Bill...
Dinosaur Jr - “What Else is New?”
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“After work happy hour: 3 vodka gimlets; 1 giant clump of wasabi swallowed whole.”
– Food Consumption Log - Week of October 18, 2009
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Fleetwood Mac - “Dreams” (chopped...
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If you want a blogging job where you can talk... →
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The five “Charmin Embassadors” will work in the Charmin Restrooms in Times Square from Nov. 23 to Dec. 31. Job requirements include interacting with hundreds of thousands of bathroom guests, maintaining their own blogs and content on Charmin-branded Web sites and popular social media sites, and sharing family-friendly video from the restroom space and surrounding areas.
The...
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