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Vegan Montreal

Spent last weekend in Montreal – had a great time at DrupalCamp, and visited a number of great restaurants. The Green Panther / La Panther Verte (Yelp) The…

Other Lives

So I’m sometimes convinced I should just turn this blog into an auto-re-posting feed of everything that comes into my podcast client: between KEXP‘s Music That Matters, Live…

The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow

Discovered this wonderful new duo via Morning Becomes Eclectic. Imagine The Swell Season if Glen Hansard was from Alabama rather than Ireland, Marketa Irglova from LA rather than…

Tiny Desk Concert – The Decemberists

Great quick video from the Decemberists’ Tiny Desk Concert at NPR: “I was sort of always under the impression that these things were done while everybody was just…

Fourth of July Music – Gil Scott-Heron Live at the Bottom Line

Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) is most well known for “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” but this 1977 live gig with Brian Jackson will expose you to more of…

Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three

Think I can take Watson?

Screen shown just before taking the Jeopardy online test a few weeks back. I thought about trying to screen-shot some of the actual test questions but then that…

More Moby: Be the One EP

(via Vegan.com) Moby has released a free EP in advance of his next album.

Mary Gauthier and Tania Elizabeth at Me & Thee Coffeehouse

Friday Jo and I had the chance to see one of our favorite songwriters, Mary Gauthier, at the Me & Thee Coffeehouse in Marblehead (blurry iPhone foto above)….

Vegan French Bistro Comfort Mats

So I’m browsing the Ballard Designs catalog the other day and I stumbled upon these “French Bistro Comfort Mats,” which are described thusly: The fun design is based…

Songs for living

From the always masterful Ze Frank, a TED talk highlighting a number of his recent projects, starting with Ray (I’m about to whip somebody’s ass) and culminating in…

Cee Lo Green’s F&#* You in French Sign Language

Nuf Said?

in a symbolic move today, House members from both parties read the Constitution aloud on the House floor (NPR) Otto West: Apes don’t read philosophy. Wanda: Yes they…

Strange Powers

The Great Income Shift

(via Economist’s View) Some very interesting data from the Congressional Budget Office and analysis by Chuck Marr the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities describing the shift in…

The .doc file of J. Alfred Prufrock

(via BoingBoing from back in September – yes, I’m that far behind) Excellent retelling/recasting of the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock into an even more modern idiom,…

God is a Concept – Tweedy Channels Lennon

(via Sterogum, via TwentyFourBit) comes this video of Jeff Tweedy fronting Autumn Defense (with John Stirratt and Pat Sansone also of Wilco) in a rendion of the classic…

Pointless, Action-Free, and Totally Mesmerising

Myq Kaplan on Late Late Show

Myq Kaplan, who you may remember as the vegan from the most recent series of Last Comic Standing, was on the Late Late Show. I especially like the…

Oh, Buddha

Can’t miss a chance to post a LOLCat.