Are you guys aware of the spam emails that are going around in the guise of breaking-news updates from MSNBC? I was just skimming my Gmail spam folder for misidentified messages when I saw these:
BREAKING NEWS: World Leaders Gather To Roast Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
BREAKING NEWS: [audio] Church Group Offers Homosexual New Life In Closet
BREAKING NEWS: Bush [...]
From 1995-1999 I worked at WWVU-FM, attending college in my spare time. U92, as it’s more commonly known, is the college radio station at West Virginia University. The first day of the fall semester was always our biggest day of the year - we’d set up a big tent in front of the student union [...]
Sorry about the crappy shaky-cam footage, but it should at least suggest the kind of energy Springsteen shows can still generate. Bruce is 58 now, and his shows still stretch past the three-hour mark. “Badlands” closed the main set, so this was shot after about two and a half hours of solid rocking, and nobody [...]
My geekier hobbies - comics, video games, “speculative fiction” - rarely intersect with my job, but when they do, holy crap. Gaze in adoration at the cover of the October 2008 edition of Racer X Illustrated:
Craig Schulz, son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, was nice enough to write a feature for us about the series [...]
Between preparations for a vacation next week and a big move in September, blogging time has been scarce, but right now, I can’t even think about those things. My mind is focused solely on tomorrow night’s big Springsteen concert at Giants Stadium - the last show of a three-night stand in his home state. I’ve [...]
Jarvis Cocker put on one hell of a show last night at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg. Bill has a more detailed write-up over on Sound Bites, but I need to take a second to tell you how awesome this show was. The big music war in 1990s England was between Blur and Oasis, but [...]
This is the “big thing” on the web today. I try not to link to things BoingBoing posts (because I assume pretty much everybody reads BoingBoing), but I’m gonna have to make an exception for this. If you want to feel kind of good about our often-miserable species, the next four and a half minutes [...]
My friend (and fellow U-92 alum) Bill Pearis knows as much about music as anyone you or I have ever met. He covers new music and NYC shows on his blog, Sound Bites, and he also writes a column for the hugely popular Brooklyn Vegan, which is both a blog and a person. Bill just [...]
As an editor, my primary function is to find and correct things that are wrong (examples: a misspelling, a factual error, a word that you “didn’t think was that racist,” a grammatical construction that makes you sound like a cannibal). I have to be observant, and I also have to continually educate myself to ensure [...]
- If the name alone isn’t enough to get you to play Puzzle Farter, we will probably never be friends.
- In my last post, I mentioned Josh Cotter’s amazing Skyscrapers of the Midwest, and I’ve been making notes for a more in-depth post about the book. Instead, I’ll just direct you to Brian Heater’s review [...]
I’m on a magazine deadline this week, but I want to point a couple things out real quick-like. The first is the Boston Globe’s new online photojournalism/photo-essay section, The Big Picture. I’m just blown away by the quality of the photos they’ve posted so far, particularly in “After the Quake,” which looks at the Sichuan [...]
