Archive for March, 2009

Family of Crawdaddy’s Paul Williams Needs Help

March 31st, 2009

Paul and Cindy with son Alexander I read this afternoon on Boing Boing Dot Net about the plight of a true pioneer of rock criticism – and the founder of Crawdaddy Magazine, Paul Williams, who suffered a traumatic brain injury in 1995 after falling from his bike, necessitating major brain surgery. Due to his injuries [...]

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Cuteness Alert: Baby Hedgehog

March 31st, 2009

Image Source If you are having as weird of a day as I am (between offending the mentally challenged, the vegans and the Gossip Websites, I am not sure who is left for me to unintentionally alienate slash incur the wrath of) then you need to look at this picture of a tiny baby hedgehog, [...]

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Donut Madness: Create a New Dunkin’ Donuts Variety!

March 31st, 2009

Mmmm…Donuts… If you love donuts as much as I do, you will want to check this out. Dunkin’ Donuts is inviting to donut fans to visit its website  and create their next donut using a five-step selection process. The contest winner will be announced on June 5th, which is evidently National Donut Day (who knew?). Official [...]

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Attention Drummers: Nightmare Gig Available

March 31st, 2009

Auditions will be held in Los Angeles on Friday, April 10 for drummers who are looking to play with The Smashing Pumpkins.  Interested drummers should send their background info, photos and performance web links via email only to:  pumpkinsdrummer@gmail.com.

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Maple Bacon Doughnuts

March 29th, 2009

We are getting psyched to head out to Williamsburg for the Bacon Take Down later this afternoon. Hopefully, one of the contestants will be making a batch of these Maple Bacon Doughnuts. Yummy! (Thanks to David Hoover for the tip!)

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Blender Magazine Folds and I Am Not That Sad About It

March 27th, 2009

It’s sort of old news by now that Blender magazine shut its doors earlier this week, its April issue being its very last to see print.  I just went through this very same situation with Metal Edge closing up shop – and god knows I’ve seen it happen with every other print outlet and paying [...]

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Gail’s Prayers Answered: Momofuku Now Serving Donut Ice Cream

March 26th, 2009

With a Name Like Momofuku, It Has to Be Good! Oh my goodness, this is the best news! Momofuku restaurants are now serving donut flavored ice cream! There is a god! I will be having some of that as soon as I can find a Momofuku near my house!

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Happy 61st Birthday, Steven Tyler!

March 26th, 2009

Tyler with Liv’s Baby-Mama Bebe Buell, 1970-something or Other   Jesus God, I can easily remember all the way back to the late 70s, when Aerosmith were recording fantastic-sounding and borderline-dangerous albums like Rocks instead of bullshit crap pop songs written by Desmond Child, and I actually thought Steven Tyler was cool. Happy Birthday Steven, [...]

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Lyrics of the Day: “Death of a Disco Dancer” By The Smiths

March 26th, 2009

  The death of a disco dancer Well, it happens a lot ’round here And if you think Peace Is a common goal That goes to show How little you know The death of a disco dancer Well, I’d rather not get involved I never talk to my neighbour I’d rather not get involved   [...]

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Owls Are Cool

March 25th, 2009

“I Am An Owl. How Cool Am I?” I love owls and I almost flipped out when I saw this cool photo of an owl leaping into the air just prior to taking flight. Read all about this rare nature photo at this link. Originally spotted at Neatorama of course!

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