'Tis Friday, Bitches!

Anybody got anything catchy?

Typical Bastard Blogger Exchange

Eric's on the left, we're on the right.

Congratulations, Bastard!

Camera-wielding shark whisperer and upstanding bastard Matt has sold five photographs! Due to copyright issues, we won't post them here... but I have it on good authority that they're largely tasteful semi-nude shots of Jay, much as above.

Brilliant One-Two Punch

Things are getting interesting. From CNN ("Mitt Romney's painfully bad week"):

Thursday morning, the Obama campaign released a tough ad attacking the record of downsizing and outsourcing at Romney's old firm, Bain Capital. 

The Romney campaign reacted with outrage. That same day, it announced a multimillion-dollar purchase of airtime for an ad that bluntly accused President Obama of lying. 

In support of the ad, Romney's team argued that he had left Bain Capital in February 1999; the incidents alluded to by the Obama campaign all occurred after that date and had nothing to do with Romney. 

Wham. The first attack on Romney had been a jab, dropping Romney's guard against the haymaker: On Friday, the Obama team counter-charged that it was Romney who was lying in his ads or who had committed a felony, lying on 140 official forms that he signed as CEO and sole shareholder of Bain between 1999 and 2002. 

Romney now chased the Obama story, granting five TV interviews to reiterate his version of events. The more he talked, the more deeply into trouble he sank. By Sunday, even Romney supporters were urging the thing he wants least: release of more income tax returns. 

And here again, what got Romney into the trouble was his war room. It was the too-fierce response to Attack 1 -- the adamant insistence that Romney had nothing, nothing to do with anything that happened at Bain after February 1999 -- that set up Romney for Attack 2: Did he lie on SEC forms? And now he will struggle through the rest of the election trying to reconcile his answers.

One Drop

The four song EP is now available For The PiL fans.

Haw Haw

So ...

Anybody got any good news? Shit.

I NEVER thought I'd say this but.....

I'm tired of looking at fetuses. Stay cool Bastards!

Heaven's Got A New Angel

Seth Putnam, lead singer of Anal Cunt, has died of a heart attack at age 43. He had so much more to give.

Har Har

Tao Of The Dead

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead's newest. It's good. It has synthesizers and a 16 minute track that is in 5 parts. The tracks are listed by letters of the alphabet instead of numbers. There's a 14 page digital book that singer / guitarist Conrad Keely wrote and illustrated (he also did the cover -- again with the talented people). I think I sat next to the girl on page 14 of the book on a plane on my way to ACL a couple of years ago. No, seriously. Buy me a beer someday and I'll tell you about it.

Fear The Post-Modern.

Hell Yeah

Shit

The Big To-Do

Another Furiously Tight Platter from my beloved Drive-by Truckers. I've only taken a cursory listen, but it doesn't seem to be much of a departure from their usual style. A nice addition to their last couple of albums has been bass player Shonna Tucker's weepy countryesque ballads, which fit in nicely with Cooley and Hood's usual boozey anthems.

Here's "This Fucking Job," which isn't necessarily the best song on the album, but it's representative, and perfectly titled.

Geek Out

Check out Adam West and Burt Ward (Bert Gervis) in their original screen tests for Batman.

Jimmy Kimmel And The Handsome Men's Club

Lots of surprising cameos in this sketch.

Funny Peculiar

The Hazards Of Flight

Okay, who here is Feeling The Post Thanksgiving blahs? This should do the trick.

Happy Turkey Day

Shouldn't I be wearing a fez or something?

Tough

This is what Jay's daughter is going to be like when she grows up. I just know it.