by Pablo Picasso
Original Crayon Drawing 1958
$129,999.99

only available at costco. that’s right. costco.

snapple unveils 17.5-ton popsicle in NYC on the first day of summer; it .

the ny times by praising the blog at the expense of believer magazine’s professed earnestness. people may make fun of zach braff’s effusiveness, but really garden state did for indie rock what breakin 2: electric boogaloo did for turbo’s career.

If The Believer’s music issue is more problematic, that’s because it’s also more neutral. In an effort to stamp out snark, the editors also seem to have stamped out skepticism, and so the magazine takes it for granted that indie-rockers are the most important musicians on the planet: the harpist and songwriter Joanna Newsom, for example, taps into “a deep, universal pain.” (Might those words appear on a certain blog sometime soon?)

(thanks, rarce.)

(thanks, ken.)

the onion celebrates its 300th anniversary with their highlights include the hilarious lampooning of social trends, anachronistic personalities and finger-banging robots.

Here’s something I don’t understand: We can develop a robot sturdy enough to mine the Saturnine moon Enceladus, strong enough to withstand the fierce ionic winds and burst through the 40 meters of scorched onyx that covers the planet, and smart enough to collect the vital crystals from amidst all the worthless rock, but the designers at USR labs can’t figure out how to stop them from finger-banging my wife?

as much as you love myths where god destroys the earth because we are bad, you will enjoy these tasty . they’re inspired by scripture, folks. that’s how you know that god loves us.

(thanks, elkins.)
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feist was on kcrw’s this morning. get your listen on!
(thanks, blumberelli.)

even if you aren’t a fan of his music, the on NPR today will definitely be a very interesting listen. their long history is mixed with heavy metal innovation and social/legal controversy.

Judas Priest pioneered the heavy metal sound in the 1970s and ’80s. Lead singer Halford left the band in 1991, citing internal tension, and in 1998, he disclosed that he is gay during an interview on MTV.

(thanks, noah.)

i’d go see Wilco play tonight at the meadow brook music festival. then I’d head to st. andrews hall on thursday to see the best band in the world, Café Tacuba. wow that city has .

neal pollack on and his experience with mcsweeney’s in this past sunday’s new york times book review (reg req’d).

I can barely remember century’s dawn, before my persona arrived. I had a job, I owed no debt, I rented an apartment, I wasn’t married. My knees didn’t hurt when it rained. Then I got involved with McSweeney’s, which, according to most dictionaries, is an old Gaelic word meaning “trendy literary scene.”

and dave eggers’ (complete with a response-to-the-response from pollack).

He quotes me as saying, “We’re about to enter a new age of literary celebrity.” When I read this online this morning, I had to re-read it a few times, looking for some postscript that indicated that, as Neal usually does, he had made the quote up. … The quote doesn’t sound like anyone, really—no one would have said something like that, unless they were addressing, in a bad late-’80s TV movie, some kind of misguided depiction of a glitzy (ha!) book-industry convention.