We'd like to hook you up with Jesus

Shiv/Shill/Shine remains a non-profit entity, but we just crudely inserted some Ad-Sense in the hopes of recouping a fraction of our unbearable overhead, while various other shill-whoring arrangements are hashed out. Those algorithms got inside the minds of our readership right quick.

zombies

WSUM benefit @ King Club previewed @ Shiv/Shill/Shine, shillery-hyped @ dailypage, blurbed @ dane101. Though if you've seen one, you've probably seen them all.

abortion comics, streetwear condoms

This morning, Shiv/Shill/Shine's ambiguously-if at all-gendered publicist comes across an excellent new blog, and does Vicki Mckenna proud by hitting the big foosball game to learn about abortion... from a comic book.

Shillery's background is in PR, so some hyperbole, hyping the hype-puncturing in the former case, may be involved. The back cover of that comic really does say "is this Nazi Germany in 1943?", though.

more shillery

Today on Shiv/Shill/Shine:
A rap joke from the Streets of Gold Beat Battle elimination round. 18 producers entered, 16 made it through. Must've sucked to be those other two. Press release spam blast to burn up the internets tomorrow.

Also, since Ish-Om has basically become Sh/Sh/Sh's manual RSS feed, for reasons that will become clear soon enough, we should remedy Ish-Om's failure to link to the original announcement that Nathan Meltz's modular House of Tomorrow had been unpacked from the flatbed and reassembled in the Hudson Valley.

Wall to Wall

The eponymous Shiv/Shill/Shine post, re: social networking via the Mother Fool's permission wall, has been updated to include the eponymous Chris Brown song. And the fact that Shiv/Shill/Shine now exists on Facebook. And yes, we're rather fond of the word eponymous.

will write for cash...

...or kicks n' giggles. This morning, Shiv/Shill/Shine extended unsolicited copy-editing services and rewrote Context Clothing's online blurbs. Context's site is pretty slick and functional, and a great deal of care seems to go into the graphic presentation of their wares. Yet the accompanying text ranges from endearingly hyperbolic, but sloppy--to cosmopolitanism run back and forth through babelfish a few too many times. Perhaps there are typos on our post, too. Do point them out.

Disclaimers/Disclosures:

• I wrote the intro, which was initially inspired by Kenneth Burns' first few lines in "pedalling with Just Coffee." I didn't have the energy to see the homage further.
• One of Sh/Sh/Sh's founding members shops @ Context and likes it.
• The blurbs were written by the progenitor of the original fall fashion guide. He can't imagine spending more than $4 on a pair of jeans
• Pics were all lifted from Context and cropped and shrunk to 150 X (something close to 150), which we believe to be well within the bounds of Fair Use doctrine. Especially as it pertains to parody/satire.
• We have a text file of straightforward fixes for the entire "catalog," which we'll freely share if anyone cares to inquire.
  

exploration of self in the third person

Quincy Hoist's DJ debut beyond the WSUM cradle is in but a few hours. To commemorate the occasion, he has written up a typically cryptic sh/sh/sh contributor page auto-bio.

Shiv/Shill/Shine drinks at the Kollege Klub

More Shiv/Shill/Shine shilling:

• To follow up the Mac Lethal 9, 10, 11:11 interview, here's another venture into alcoholic territory, a chat with Lake Louie brewer Tom Porter, about a beer that numbs and warms my "soul" year-round, but is particularly satisfying in the colder months. It's a chat initially conducted as background for a piece in the current edition of The Onion, but only a few quotes fit, so everything but those has been ported to the internets.
• Shortly after posting, desperate for a hearty drink and hemmed in by rain, I dashed from the library to... the nigh-empty Kollege Klub. The darkest beer on hand was Newcastle.
  

dim bulbs

This blog will revert to arbitrary sniping once it relocates: for now, it will continue shilling, since we've heard our RSS feeds aren't quite working elsewhere.

• Today on shiv/shill/shine: An interview with Mac Lethal re: receiving road head from Fred Phelps. Mac Lethal opens the sold out Atmosphere show at the Barrymore tonight. A fellow opener's appearing elsewhere in town right about now--more info in the footer of the post.
• On Thursday, sh/sh/sh's Quincy Host will be spinning a low-key evening @ Cafe Montmartre. No cover, listen to preview/teaser mix here.

least convincing...

...endorsement of Paolo Nutini's show @ the Barrymore tonight. Because we'll be drinking and ogling Big Rigs.*

^{since we feel guilty about something we wrote a few weeks ago, we'll probably bring a bottle of wine}

navigating the great midwest

Today @ Shiv/Shill/Shine:

• Quincy Hoist calls out a Stylus scribe for committing the most pretentious geographic euphemism ever--in the course of a Pale Young Gentlemen review.
• And there's a recycled interview with roots drummer/historian/pr flack ?uestlove.

Buried Alive

Today on Shiv/Shill/Shine: Quincy Hoist, pallbearer of ill will, posts as panting Burial fanboy, explains why moody low end theory has supplanted his indie rock diet. On October 18th, he'll serve equally OCD platters @ Cafe Montmartre. I've been bugging him for a preview mix, so hopefully that will surface next week.

Kanye West more ignorant than 50 Cent?

Kanye West really 'likes' dykes: misappellation examined @ Shiv/Shill/Shine. A quick googling reveals this particular preoccupation--especially the recycled verse that took "months" to write after he tapped Daft Punk--has been widely referenced,* some speculating that he's not ignorant, but merely an enthusiastic voyeur who fantasizes about unwinding after shows by watching two lesbians make out. This post is less generous.

^{*If it's behind the blog cycle, blame Hastings for taking too long to format/publish--twas conceived a few weeks ago.}