I want one. According to the item description that makes me geeky… Guilty as charged.
Prefixmag.com has full album streams available! Check it out but hurry, the streams are available through Sunday 7/12 (permalinks subject to change).
- Son Volt, ‘American Central Dust’
- Jay Brannan, ‘In Living Cover’
- Tiny Vipers, ‘Life On Earth’
- The Donnas, ‘Greatest Hits’
- Discovery, ‘LP’
- Various Artists, ‘Factory Records: Communications 1978 – 92′
- Maxwell, ‘BLACKsummers’night’
- stellastarr*, ‘Civilized’
- Marcy Playground, ‘Leaving Wonderland…in a fit of rage’
- Broken Records, ‘Until the Earth Begins to Part’
- Cage, ‘Depart from Me’
- Kiss Kiss, ‘The Meek Shall Inherit What’s Left’
- Bowerbirds, ‘Upper Air’
- Motel Motel, ‘New Denver’
- Now, Now Every Children, ‘Everyone You Know’
- Rural Alberta Advantage, ‘Hometowns’
- UUVVWWZ, ‘UUVVWWZ’
- Wonderlick, ‘Topless At The Arco Arena’
- Joy Jones ‘Godchild’
This is a story called “Who Have You Told?” written and performed by Andrea Askowitz, author of “My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy“.
Wonderfully funny thoughts on being 2 weeks pregnant, radical honesty, and the Reproductive Freedom Ride. Watch it now!
RetroComedy.com posted the 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads of All Time. I have to agree, these are very disturbing. A few that I found particularly odd:

White Bread Demon Child

Answer? Yes.
The Hopleaf, my favorite bar, made the NYTimes! I had no idea that the official name is actually “Mary & Louise’s Hopleaf Bar”. Check out the article on microbrews in Chi-Town. Definitely my scene.

In addition to going green, the Sears Tower now has a glass ledge suspended from the 103rd floor Skydeck. The glass is three layers thick, and each layer is a half-inch thick. The balconies can hold about five tons.
But still, yikes.
[via Huffington Post]
From Organic in Chicago:
“Our Daily Bread is an award winning 2005 documentary directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter that provides an unblinking look at modern food production. No voice overs, no music, just wide screen looks at how our food is produced (which involves surprisingly few humans you consider the sheer quantities of food we produce)…
Part 1 of 10 is shown below. Our Daily Bread may be seen in its entirety here.”






