Went to see Vic Chesnutt play last night, with a chimerical backing band best described as the Silver Mt Picciotto Lovers. I was not a giant fan going in but consider me a convert now. Chesnutt's croaky songs over the big doomy howl of the Silver Mt Zion sound was one of the least likely and most ef...

Retail banking, handling the small sums of proles like ourselves, is generally seen as a dismayingly low-growth and low-profit activity for big banks, which would much prefer to be reaping huge windfalls through shifting mighty icebergs of capital and other master-of-the-universe activities. I don't...

I will miss the Silver Mt Zion show tonight. Balls.

If Nina N. can't make it, at least we have the Hit Parade . HIT PARADE at Suoni per il Pololo, Sala Rossa, June 9, 2008, 4848 boul. St. Laurent, Montréal, performance at 9pm sharp. Twelve participants lie face down on the sidewalk and street and proceed to pound the pavement with microphones one tho...

They film and edit these pretty nicely. The acts are a mixed bag (you could put up a link that says 'click here to not watch video of Pigeon John or REM' and I'd be like clickclickclickclick real fast) but I always enjoy the way it's put together. [drunken Welles]Aaaahhhhhh, the French[/drunken Well...

Very hot and very humid, just the way I like it. Sunny too. Am I outside, enjoying my favorite kind of day during my last month in town? No, I'm in my windowless office working for someone who can't be bothered to say what he wants, throwing us into endless iterations of changes a month after the de...

Three-way tie: 1. Large martini glass. This takes up a lot of room on a critical shelf, is prone to fall over, and a martini has never been made in this house. What the fuck with this 'cocktail nation' bullshit, like stupid fonts or a louche MFA candidate showing up to your party in a sharkskin suit...

Ty Webb wrote:Dude, if you're still under my bed when I get home, I'm calling the cops.

Sibelius is probably the best choice overall, I'm thinking. A strong pro-choice woman on the ticket will help shut down the rabid Hillary types and help make the reproductive-rights differences between Dems and Repubs more stark and effective -- especially if McCain picks Jindal. Unlike some other o...