Sorry for the bad pun, but I’m not quite awake (after getting to bed at 8am this morning) and haven’t even begun to process all the post-election news today, but I still feel giddy and intoxicated from what happened last night — and that’s not just post-party chemical residue talking: I think I’m nursing a [...]

I was recently chatting with my bro Micah and suggested that combining the anti-grammar of LOLcats plus Obama’s hot campaign video Yes We Can would generate something like “yes we can has can”. He was like no, dude, it already exists: YES WE CAN HAS (cheezburgers). He wuz right, it duz. Update: I swear I [...]

Designed by the OBEY GIANT dude, whose mass-produced pastings, if you live in a city, you’ve very likely seen somewhere sometime in your urban periphery. You can download the pdf and print out your own full size black and white version from the site. There’s also a pretty groovy Barack take on the original Andre [...]

So, check it out. I’m sitting against Micah’s refrigerator (the only spot that currently supplies free laptop wifi) in his new wide angle, wood floored Chicago apartment. It’s a literally gorgeous day and we’re minutes away from hitting the road in a rental Dodge Stratus with all arrows pointing toward Paris, Kentucky aka home of [...]

Not since Johnny Cash passed a few years ago have I felt the collective loss to humanity as when I learned that Kurt Vonnegut left the building on Wednesday at 84. I am fairly sure, though, that he would have something funny to say about it, probably making fun of all the people mourning his [...]

Chris, an American living in Paris, says on Americablog that he suspects this to be a diversion, like the Miami Seven two years ago, the administration crying wolf to bolster their raison d’etre. I’m inclined to agree. It’s too early to tell yet whether this is indeed an important indictment or just another diversion but [...]

So Barack Obama has done very (very) well getting his paper together over the first three months of the year, namely just a cold mil short of Hillary’s USD 26m. Not bad considering Mrs. Clinton’s supposed old money network and electorial inevitablity, the latter of which seems to be eroding by the day. The prevailing [...]

First glancing the Berliner Zeitung RSS feed, I thought today’s “Die Niedliche ist tot” (“The Cutie is dead”) was referring to Knut and got a bit of a chill, considering the smark-alecky comment I left in my last Knut post. Turns out it was another bear, a panda named Yan Yan (Chinese for ‘beautiful’), that [...]

“Tousled and garrulous” James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem is writing a sporadic blog for the Guardian UK newspaper. Among other things, like fighting a war against capitalisation, he reveals that he has taken up ninjitsu (!) and is reading Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon. In a recent interview with Nate Chinen of the NYT [+ [...]

Steingarten, the newest album by Berlin’s answer to Lee “Scratch” Perry — at least in terms of dub studio innovation — Stefan Betke aka Pole, is graced with a glowing review by Pitchfork’s Philip Sherburne today, albeit one bordering precariously on Pitchfork parody: The opposing shapes and textures in “Winkelstreben” create totally unexpected convergences– improbable [...]

I’m not sure exactly what’s going on with this new Wilco record—Sky Blue Sky—or even if that is Jeff Tweedy singing on every track (I think not). And while I’m not the superfan I was back in the day (Summerteeth era that is, yr’all’s Cincinnati show was the bomb), I can confirm that this one [...]

Joerg totally called it, The United States of America will win the Super Bowl today, albeit fully precedented but you never know. If Janet Jackson can suprise us with a nipple, then presumably Canada or the EU can with their last minute champion flown in via helicopter. Then again, maybe not. German TV (ARD) will [...]

This is the closing episode of what has apparently become a family affair in recent days (even though I only covered about half of my seven brothers and sisters — I’m not kidding). In the photo below is my brother Micah Perry and the doper-than-all-y’all Mr Lif at the aforementioned Pitchfork Music Festival last weekend [...]