For The Particular Tom Waits fan, you might enjoy NPR's offering of a complete concert from July in Atlanta. I have friends who went to ...

Jackpot! I have recently acquired a couple of Big Star bootlegs with various rough mixes, alternate takes and demos, not to mention a few s...

I'll be here scaring all the fish, drinking myself into oblivion by noon, and turning 40.

Add to your Netflix lists Gentlemen. I am probably 8 years behind the times with you BBC-loving fools, but I am very taken with this series...

So while you bastards have been having babies and spending time with your families, I've been reading. Because of my shame over my low s...

Taken from a cell phone, so it looks awful, but still ... Listen to the crowd when a certain somebody makes an appearance.

From Drawn : You can watch a full-length, high-quality version of Ryan , Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winning animated short film from 2004, in th...

I adore this song. The band is the Felice Brothers , who strangely enough are actually brothers (three of them are, anyway). The fourth guy ...

A fully automatic machine gun from Nerf. Only $40! From Gizmodo: N-STRIKE VULCAN EBF-25 (Ages 6 years & up/Approximate Retail Price: $39...

49 minutes of new Westerberg music for .49 over at Amazon.com . I'm on it.

Our summer vacation was a smashing success. We broke the trip up on the way out with a one day stop in Nashville to pick up some more famil...

Andy's recent post reminded me of Dave's find from back in December. It deserves another shot, I think.

From today's Wall Street Journal. I look forward to seeing how this is explained away during the inevitable prosecutions of mortgage ban...

In an apparent attempt to get everyone up to speed before March '09, Warner Brothers recently unveiled the premiere episode of Watchmen...

One of the many highlights of the venerable BBC Radio show "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue," (several episodes available on Au...

Fer you, dudes.

I kid . I'm back in town, by the way. Full trip report later. The official Watchmen site is up, and nerds like Mike and me can watch t...

The great Alejandro Escovedo has a great new album out. It's great. I Find That Playing it at high volume makes it even greater.

Saw The Dark Knight last night at midnight, which was a first for me and a movie opening. But I'm a teacher, and that's the kind of ...