It's so hard to find good anonymous help these days

Just posted: Shiv/Shill/Shine's guide to fall fashion. Neither clairvoyant prose nor pseudonym is mine--but I picked up a bundle of sticks the author dropped, and edited out some low-hanging American Apparel. His nom de plume was apparently non-negotiable. And why quibble when there's such a scarcity of anonymous writers with eyes and ears to the street?

Speaking of which, now's as good a time as any to congratulate Emily Denaro on her quarter-centennial. Yep, she's 25 posts (weeks?) into her pseudonymous Daily Page column. No longer a new girl, is E$.

'For your own good, do not read Ann Althouse...'

"...It will make your brains turn into puree of bat guano."

Water+Vitamins=all the logorrhea you need

We've been led to believe Mark Ronson's sugary post-September 11th commentary was actually inspired by Jesse Russell's Vitamin Water detox plan.

'I'm usually against the grade nitpickers'

...but I'm bitter as shit that this scored lower technically than "northern state"*

MUWWAHAHA! In another venue, we'll explain how Aesop Rock is exactly like Nas, and expect you to take us very seriously, but for now, bask in the hilarity that is Aesop's fabled e-street team flipping their shit in the comments of the above-linked review.

^{* you already knew, though.}

'These new ringtone rappers… God will punish their decadent souls.'

Oh Word has the exclusive Bin Laden interview, antidote to imminent 9/11 handwringing:

I needed some next shit. I can’t keep coming back with the same steez. The industry is hurting right now with downloading and security around tall buildings n’ airports being up.

Award tour

Don't know when this was first posted*, or if it's been mentioned by members of the respective publications, but the Badger Herald and Daily Cardinal are both finalists for the Associated Collegiate Press' 2007 Newspaper Pacemaker awards, in the 4-year daily paper category. MATC's Clarion represents in the 2-year category. Winners will be announced at some pow-wow in late October.

These things were submitted pre-D.C. redesign... local Online Pacemakers, not so much.

Individual finalists:
The Daily Cardinal's Erik Opsal (for News Page/Spread design) and Phil Hands (Editorial Cartoon). Phil's drawing hands professionally caress other pages, though.

^{*entire post via creepy google alert, too lazy to search further}

Cuminous Cloud

Pick up this week's Onion to read an explosive conversation with Neeta Saluja, local author of Six Spices: A Simple Concept of Indian Cooking, who will be having a book release party tonight @ Whole Foods from 6-8pm. This, rather than the initial signing, is the event to attend, as Saluja indicated the stack of books will be accompanied by “aalu bhar—spicy potato and peas baked in a puff pastry. Often I serve it as an appetizer or a snack food. And also these corn fritters, makki pakoras: corn mixed with chickpea flour, Cream of Wheat and spices—and you just deep-fry that. For dessert I'm going to have gulab-jamun. It's a milk preparation, enriched: you make the dough with milk powder, and then you fry them and put them in syrup, and it's really, really good.” You’ll find the corresponding recipes on pages 134, 124, and 149 of Six Spices (Jones Books, '07)

Memorial Union Terrace will probably not be 50,000 students deep tonight

This is not a revolutionary, or particularly socially/environmentally conscious blog, but we dedicate the track below to the student walking down State Street who has some sort of class orientation tonight at the "anti-globalization bookstore... you know, Rainbow Books."

The same fellow seemed rather eager to be outed as a b-schooler: "what will they do when they find out I'm a capitalist pig?!"

Closeted capitalists and conscious rap types alike should head to the Memorial Union Terrace around 8pm. WTO protest nostalgia optional.

Blue Scholars, "50 Thousand Deep", off Bayani

First impressions

If you are a blogger in Madison running an ad-sense widget for shits and giggles, you should probably check this FAQ out and contact the principals, if you haven't already.

'Remember: it's about speed, not gluttony'

What a socially responsible way to put on an eating contest! There's an Ian's pizza inhalation race happening on Library Mall right now. Winner gets a semester's worth of pie (actually $7 in weekly gift certificates). Pretty sure I could've won the thing if I'd known about it in advance--and forgone lunch, subsequent appetite suppressants.

Only happened upon the event because Daft Punk's Mr. West's "Stronger" on large speakers pricked my ears while I logged time at the office. Unfortunately the pizza pitchmen promptly cut the track short and queued up that fucking Cake song.

To keep our Sept 11th-isms in parallel, here's a recast version from the francophile who passed Kanye the record in the first place.

Kanye West, "Stronger" [A-Trak remix]

September 11th Club Banger