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Help recommend music
Mike Ralph, a frequent photo contributor here, needs a little help spending his iTunes and Amazon.com gift cards. He’s looking to purchase some standout tracks from albums he might otherwise not buy with his iTunes card and possibly some CDs (he’s considering She & Him and Spiritualized at the moment) with his plastic Amazon bucks. […]
Laughing out loud at pastors
Following in the footsteps of Stuff Christians Like (see Stuff White People Like), our friends over at Burnside Writers Collective have launched a blatant Christianized blog spoof of their own: LOLPastors (see I Can Has Cheezburger). Surprisingly, there are no entries for Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Bakker or John Wesley yet. We might just have to do something to […]
Minor league Obamamania
Auctioning off “Senate” seats sounded like a savvy piece of politically satirical marketing. Changing the name of your team, designing hideous special edition American flag jerseys and giving away bobble head dolls to honor the new president sounds like something a couple of drunk Democratic operatives dreamed up on Election Night. As creepy and overly patriotic as […]
Scrabulous returns as Lexulous
The popular online Scrabble-esque game that boasted close to a million users on Facebook when legal issues forced it to shut down in September has returned with a less conspicuous name: Lexulous. Indian owners Rajat & Jayant Agarwalla informed former Scrabulous users of the game’s return in an e-mail sent early Friday morning. Users will be able […]
Introducing Ohvaur
Tim Den, an old friend of Tangzine (he played a birthday bash we had five or six years ago) and member of the defunct Boston group Kimone, sent us some exciting news last night. Recordings he and his Chicago-based collective of former Miamians have tinkered with over the last three or so years are finally […]
First song of 2009?
What was the first song – “Auld Lang Syne” doesn’t count – you heard after 2008 turned into 2009? Tell us in the comment section below.
Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman
A trailer has been posted at Facebook for Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman, a documentary about the late Christian icon by David Di Sabatino (“Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher“). The film is almost guaranteed to attract some controversy because it doesn’t paint the “father of Christian rock” in a completely […]
Baseball teams take a cue from Blago
Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blogojevich gave a figurative middle finger to the choir of voices calling for him to step down today by naming a Senate successor to President-Elect Barack Obama. Unsurprisingly, the person Blago named isn’t Bob Evans, the director of operations for the Quad Cities River Bandits, but you can’t blame the team […]