It’s sort of old news by now that Blender magazine shut its doors earlier this week; its April 2009 issue being the 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 website I’ve ever written for in the past ten years save for Modern Drummer – so I have a moderate degree of empathy for the writing staff and freelancers who will now have to scramble even harder for work in a field that thinks it shouldn’t have to pay writers. But not many tears will be shed for the management of Blender, because they never let me write for them anyway. Goodbye, Blender magazine, I won’t miss you.
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!
Tyler with Liv’s Baby-Mama Bebe Buell, 1970-something or Other
Aerosmith frontman Steve Tyler was born on this date, March 26th, in 1948. 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, nice nose job!
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.
