“This book is very tasteful. Thus they put two of my favorite Taboo’s together Pot and naked girls. THe book is beautifully illustrated and pt together. All in all a great buy.”

So says Mike Huckabee.

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Apparently this was popular a few days ago, but I just found this music video for Barack Obama, featuring an odd assortment of celebretype people like will.i.am, Scarlet Johansson, Common, Kate Walsh, and was that Dooce?!
The song takes lyrics from Obama’s concession speech from the New Hampshire primaries and remixes it in a lyrical poetry [...]

Lovefest:

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Hatefest:

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Well, this is about one of the best bands in California and even though bassist Paz once lived downtown, this is their first-ever Long Beach show. Guy Blakeslee was a field-blues kid on Fat Possum and learned lots from Elizabeth Cotten before he learned lots from Hendrix; drummer Derek James is Paul Whaley/Ginger Baker and [...]

Long Beach delivers again with the first in {open}’s third-Thursday multimedia series that’s starts with this Amps for Christ show. AFC is a bedrock Inland Empire zoned/droned institution and this spiel is more elegant than I could muster:

Via Michael Coyle, who was there the night this came out on LP:

Thanks to Micah of Paperplanes for copying their upcoming Rhinestone Republic album for me. I have been listening only to like Terry Allen/Jerry Jeff Walker/Guy Clark/Texas ’70s buddies for weeks now and Rhinestone fits in so well. Story is that though the Planes have been laying low for a while—and I will be detailing this [...]

NME reports Kinks reunion (per original and persuasive report in the Daily Mail) and then right away un-reports Kinks reunion. Said Davies-comma-Ray: