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My colleague has posted a blurb/video preview of the Ryan Trecartin series that kicks off this Thursday at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Watch the clips to taste the best "first date movie" of the young year.

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Posts that would previously appear here, will now appear within the "isthmus ombudsman" category tag hierarchy @ Shiv/Shill/Shine.

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...i.e. moving for good, like I used to live on Atwood, or something. This space will only reopen in the case of technical disaster. I'll be off playing with crickets, therapist's orders, but if you require related reading material, subscribe to Shiv/Shill/Shine (current and future hub/mothership) check LCD rap system--or keep picking up a paper copy of the Onion until whenever the local stuff

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First twas to save the foeti, now it's simply to help people without cars (friends, emotional investment in football) plan their gateless tail-chasing in '08.Related: I've given myself till Sunday AM to purge up the remaining year-end accolades.Also, if you get HBO, and wouldn't mind a weekly 1 hr. houseguest, I'd make it worth your while somehow.

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Luc Sante wrote a great essay on the history of New Year's celebrations, with a titular nod to a song I'll be humming at my laptop tomorrow while blasphemously drinking Canadian whisky regifted by my grandmother. It was published decades before the Observer had a real website, so I can't link to the full thing, just transcribe.

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cop Scott's '07 Madison Mix-"tape".

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Perpetuate a travesty, and digg this scat-anthemic remix of Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack"

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...professes love for zines.

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Is an alcoholic internet junky's delight--seems others have followed Genna's lead: laptop wielders sandwiched in Paradise can suck down queer Irish and Adair's wifi... which allows us to bring you this unconscionable excerpting of a Townes Van Zandt bio, (theoretically pegged to a Cowboy Junkies show at the Majestic) by a journo/prof/multi-instrumentalist who last recorded for Crustacean. And

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We mentioned that Kay Sai and Jay Olsen's StoryBridge.tv might produce material for Isthmus/Daily Page. That was mostly correct.What we didn't reveal? Shilv inked a similar deal that will generate vlogs exclusive to Shiv/Shill/Shine. A taste of what's to come appears below. Quirky cobranding, huh? AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#

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...at Shiv/Shill/Shine's Madison Pop Fest wrap-up party.

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The Shiv/Shill/Shine services page alludes to a variety of different skills and assets we can deploy to help you blow up your business. We neglected to mention our French-to-English pop translation option. PROOF OF CONCEPT: Sh/Sh/Sh agent Ivanka Trump translates the lyrics of "Boule de cristal meth"--or if you prefer, "Boule de crystal meth"--by Montreal's Malajube, who will be playing Memorial

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Shiv/Shill/Shine reports ineffectually (never got around to donating plasma to fund the excursion) record dig at St. Vinny's annual record sale. When I've been awake too long, my shit starts rhyming.

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but there's new audio on Shiv/Shill/Shine, once again covering Madison's shouty Library Mall beat.

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...for cluttering up the whimsical pop-culture zone with some media giggles that would've once been this blog's bread and butter. The audio-sharing server is down for maintenance tonight, so I couldn't post the planned teaser of the earth-shattering interview with Ashok. Strike that--audio up... click to hear Ashok Kumar discussing the political imperative of the google alert.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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...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

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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.

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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

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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

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...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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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

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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.

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...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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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?!"

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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.

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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.

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We've resolved to avoid drinking for 2 weeks in order to fund server space (rent?) but this teetotalist agenda doesn't preclude us from accepting free booze."Once you’re done getting your shop on, Cork ‘n’ Bottle will be having an Ale Asylum beer tasting from 4-6 pm today and their usual wine tasting at 3pm tomorrow."

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Muzzle of Bees snarks re: Majestic's condo-friendly lineup?"...after the proverbial tongue bathing the Theatre has received from multiple other local media outlets, color us supremely disappointed thus far."A nice Verve Pipe dig, too. More please!

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Where do you drink--socially, not at home? Lonesome Wyatt: I don't have SOCIAL-----where do you drink by yourself, when you're not at home? LW: In the ditch, junkyard.Do you have a favorite ditch?LW: Shallow ditch, with a puddle of water. "The shallow ditch," I guess it's called... with water.Vincent Presley: You know that one?Where might I find that? LW: It finds you.What about the puddle we

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KF1: Yeah, all the hot guys in Milwaukee are straight.KF2: Cause all the gays moved to Chicago.Natt Spil curbside, Tuesday night, kindly fellows psych up a friend: she's moving to Milwaukee, where there's "lots of opportunity" to snag the heterosexual drinking buddies she richly "deserves."

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"Out of my backpack I share four magazines: Interview, Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair. These, I had hoped, would appeal to the former art student who had lived in the Village near N.Y.U. with two other post-punk roommates when the Clash were the Coldplay of their time."[emph. added] NY Times, via Gawker, memory triggered by Fresh Foods

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There's a piece surveying wheat beers in the current issue of The Onion. Note that it was written when the morning commute involved shirts sweating through by 7AM, rather than coasting through a cool, umm, spritz. The most notable omission*, New Glarus' Dancing Man Wheat, already got a shout-out in a previous issue--and an initial attempt to shoehorn Fearful Symmetries into the intro led to some

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We recently abandoned a half-assed plan to move to an eastern jenga tower of vocational contingencies and dubious crash pads--settling on a more prudent 12-month plan. And while we remain so hell-bent on pursuing a poorer quality of life that we won't think twice about donating our bodies to science and nursing stimulant addictions, at least we won't be tempted to pull this sort of growth-stunt

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... adds Kelly Nolan angle to Channel 3000 piece that first aired in June.Allow us to summarize the "story": The MPD has this Arrest Transport Vehicle. It's like a paddywagon, but a van--and less offensive to Irish people! Officers throw semi-belligerent drunk people into the ATV. If drunks calm down, they get to walk away with scoldings and tickets.But is the interior a soothing pink? It's hard

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To take our food coverage beyond hip-hop buffet endorsements (although expanding that, indie rock cookbook-style, could be fun. Don't "steal" that idea!) we offer the following update:At some point in July, we were told that Med Cafe was only making one pot of soup a day, owing to the youth-migration business dip. So we resigned ourselves to the reign of the lentil, and conceded it made sense for

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Haven't seen posted elsewhere, but we noticed a Kweli show on the Barrymore marquee yesterday, while Golf-ing (Jewish driver: "it's my holocaust hooptie") shotgun. The venue calendar confirms. [update: also on the bill are DJ Chaps--presumably Kweli's tour DJ--and Rob Dz.]el guante: Like, I see people on the street wearing Talib Kweli t-shirts or something and I think for a second "maybe I should

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The media play a vital role in letting the public know what's going on in their communities. The media's job is to aid police in pursuit of terrible criminals when possible. The media's job also requires asking tough questions about whether the public is being properly protected and informed.Alternate job description: entails reading Dane 101, fleshing things out a bit?

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... or just hop into a van with Minnesota plates. Let's continue the onslaught, by asking El Guante about geographical matters and CD sales, because hip-hop fandom is all about state lines and stats.====H: How much does Madison hip-hop have some sort of beachead in, or pipeline to, the Twin Cities?El Guante: I think a lot of it just comes straight through The Crest, because they're the biggest

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I just opened the current issue of The Onion to make sure I don't go redundant with the Guante papers, and ran across the finest pronged insult I've read all week. The purple-hooded Pony Boy above is theoretically strumming his heart out at Montmartre as I type:The buildup to Matt White's forthcoming debut album, Best Days, took the former UW-Madison student from playing in the New York subway to

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I first saw this promo video projected onto a large screen, audio presumably dispersed by heavy-duty speakers. All they needed was to get the machine in question on a rotating stage with some spokesmodels, and the auto-show ambiance would've been complete. Anyway, it's not quite as majestic in google video embeddable format, but remains an entertaining clusterfuck: a mish-mash of car-ad tropes

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Here's that debut piece from last week's issue, re: Ka-boom!Box's monthly DJ sets @ Mickey's, with accompanying podcast.

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Kyle Myhre, aka El Guante, recently posted a few points of clarification re: my Q&A in the current issue of The Onion with him. WHICH YOU SHOULD STILL GO PICK UP. I think the more open-ended of those points will be addressed as I post more content from our original conversation on Dane101 and Emcees Without Voices but figured I'd get this thing up quickly, since it's actually about a restaurant

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Hastings says:Pick up this week's Onion to learn what the hell this tumescent red state totem of patriotism was doing at the Commonwealth Gallery a few weeks ago, and who these people are. There is a line in the intro that became a little too tell-not-show-y for my taste, but basically, the whole thing was fun as hell to write, I was thrilled to have the privilege of getting the piece in wide

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When we first saw this Romensko link on Gawker, announcing the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper's purchase by ATL-based Creative Loafing, our impulse was to prematurely eulogize the Chicago Reader, the weekly that first pointed us to the gallery openings with ice buckets full of Goose Island, and fed us media criticism before we knew what that was (let alone that our first boss when we

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If you hadn't heard, Jane Magazine is effectively shuttered and its website's closing up shop next month. We can relate, in the sense that that sweet Covance study that was going to finance some globetrotting and resolve our housing situation for a month, fizzled out on us yesterday afternoon. We're not going to pretend we were down with Sassy from the jump or anything, but we fondly recall

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We just updated two recent posts--one of which to embed a link to Ashley Watkins' podcast, but WSUM's sites are currently down, and the other was sort of dated and the added excerpt lacked the unbridled enthusiasm of a post-fork message* we just received, so stand by, and we'll post something even older and more unrelated.*"You should write an article on Cool Kids. They were an amazing show. Im

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When we mentioned we'd say something about El Guante's penultimate Madison rap show, this is actually what we had in mind (Manchromatic will be performing with him @ the Inferno on Thursday). This one's free, within staggering distance for us--and wallflowering's more appealing when new art's going up.====Event details not exactly offline info anymore, though.Action Figures Not Included

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Our weekend has revolved around homegrown insanity, so we refer you to the work of colleagues.Start with Drop A Ambulance, reporting from sonetheque. We had planned to preface a link to DAA's post by describing the bar's decor: imagine the interior of a stretch Hummer, upholstery and light fixtures "curated" by a hipster hotelier. Except the Hummer's a fucking spaceship.DAA already recapped Yo

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Because we live to repost press-release-y shit sans commentary:"The crimethinc. gang (www.crimethinc.com) is touring the midwest. They will be in Madison this Thursday night at Lothlorien co-op. A radical puppet show will lead into workshops and discussions surrounding topics of security culture, consent, and radical mental health... and more. If you are at all interested in the work

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Portly man (who was about to handle my condiments) eyeing sandwich rolling out the assembly-line's toaster oven, to coworker:'Jane,' you're the best fluffer ever. Yours are always perfectly fluffed.H:So... what's fluffing?PMWWABTHMC: It's when you spread. The meat--evenly all over the bread.not the sandwich in question, but evocative nonetheless===Anyone care to edit the wikipedia entry to

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Last time I was at Natt Spil, the proprietor of At War With Metal was patient enough to watch me eat two Brie and Braeburn pizzas. Tonight, I'll be there, listening to a set by WSUM's Ashley Watkins. She will probably be spinning some combination of dub, reggae, and .... SKA? You should show up and buy her a drink: my checking account is overdrafted, because of shit like buying two pretentious

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We do not, quite frankly, have time to outline our futuristically, anachronistically, scatologically oxymoronic syndication scheme to anyone who doesn't have the money to bank-roll the project. If you would like to make an offer, but have lost track of us, the track below explains how to get in touch.Devin the Dude, "Boo Boo'n" [mp3, z-shared]

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It was really about transparency*, a PSA really, but to anyone who thought this was coming from a madison.com shill, please tune in tomorrow morning, for an unveiling of a new local blog-to-print syndication scheme that will blow POST out of the water. And soak up the mess. Kind of like this.Now if you'll excuse us, we've got some non-blog work to mop up.*hence the pseudonym here, obv.

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If you hadn't heard, Madison is totally like Austin. And while music bloggers may moan that Madison's lacking in barbecue and multimedia festivals, we often* share some fine alt-weekly film criticism, as...Austin Chronicle Senior Editor and lead film critic, Marjorie Baumgarten has reviewedEvening--7/5/07, @ TDP@Austin Chronicle, 6/29/07Sicko--7/5/07, @ TDP@ Austin Chronicle, 6/29/07Black Snake

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"If there ain't no light at the end of the tunnel, then build a fire and roast marshmallows on sticks of dynamite..."--El Guante's July 4th Anthem,"Unmastered"[this was originally a MySpace rip, go there to stream].Boom?We're going to talk some shit about press releases (and mention a few things re: El Guante's penultimate rap show) whenever we wake up in the afternoon. But first, we'd like to

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As recently as last Wednesday, Saloon-Brink-Ring-bound cyclists had to lock their bikes up on paint-scuffing parking dividers and fences. Or, handlebars permitting, gingerly mount the railing on the south side of the building. But no more! As of last night, there's a proper bike parking lot. (Seen above, through night-vision goggles.) Don't know when it was installed, but it was new enough that

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Since copping the Killer Genuine Draft mixtape at last Thursday's Ghetto Fusion-F.A.B. King Club show, I've decided to retire from music blogging and write press releases for a forthcoming album of murderous craft brew jingles by a member of the Public Drunkards.You can catch a Ghetto F.A.B. profile at the Madison Times. Perhaps the author could've inquired about Curtis Mayfield's influence on

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Avol's owner Ron Czerwien emailed a few weeks ago...In recent years Madison has lost McDermot's, Bookworks, Big Deal Books, and is about to lose Star Books.I'd walked by recently and seen a poster in the window reminding customers to place Harry Potter pre-orders. The latest installment's slated for July 21st publication, so that didn't strike me as the last gasp of a business about to advertise

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Just posted Bookworks owner Peter Dast's response to a surveyish thing I was trying to put together on Post.Earlier this morning, I sent Peter a follow-up email that commiserated a bit re: the reader poll's failure to gain traction, and ask if it would be ok to post his reply outside of the context of the broad bookseller survey originally envisioned. The lightly edited excerpt below references

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I probably said a lot of self-absorbed and incoherent shit--and frankly forgot the thing was being taped (hence the near-slip-up on the punk house. Always swore to give Camp Randall as the address--Blues Brothers style). Blame it on the dehydration.I'll eventually clarify what I said about yet another prospective publication--that was more wishful thinking than prediction, hopes that some of the

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Curated by...Wisconsin State Journal publisher--and DJ emeritus!--builder Bill Johnston.This was basically random rules, with a laptop. Posting seemed apropos, 'cause moments later someone messaged a recommendation request. Sponsored by Charter and Oakland Property Management.Check the near-eponymous debut track, and...Download:Nicolay and Supastition, "The Williams" [z-share-d mp3]

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Hello. Even though we can't be bothered to write about music not produced by our favorite local songstress EVAR, we'll be on a music blogging panel tonight @ the High Noon. It's at 5:30pm. We told some people that we had prepared talking points re: the Rhythm method of musical contraception night-prowl planning and post-idea plotting. But we'll just shoot that wad into a sock right about now...

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Seems craigslist was clamoring for pics of a trashed car on the 1000 block of East Johnson. Can this really be the "tan intrepid" champagne Chrysler 300 M in question? The carnage is pretty underwhelming, but this poster makes a good point. I'll edit this later to wax idiotic re: East Johnson traffic flow.

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Emcees Without Voices' first "hip-hop" content of the month: I posted a gallery of sorts from the Library Mall half of today's Elements of Change "Hip-Hop Revival."Two things not noted there:Around 5pm, I finished working in the library and was free to catch the closing minutes. A drunk old white* guy lumbered up to me and leaned in conspiratorially: "Didn't someone tell them about the bitches

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Fashion Copywriter - 024530 Reply to: see belowDate: 2007-06-08, 1:25PM CDTBased in Madison, WI, Shopbop.com is a premier online shopping boutique for the fashion-savvy female. Carrying everything a woman needs for her wardrobe from dresses to denim; swimwear to shoes -- Shopbop.com has over 100 different designer labels such as Juicy Couture, Seven for all Mankind, Catherine Malandrino, and

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On the diplomatic tip:We don't think blowing up a thread that would eventually fall quietly off the front page of TDP was the wisest move. Seemed like it already had, by the time we fell asleep this early AM. But maybe we're just secretive like that: paranoid that those on whom we eavesdrop will eventually overhear us say something incriminating.On the acquisitive tip:For the acquisitive-minded

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While I'd planned to kick off an '07 voter pledge drive with another item, and the odds of anyone who doesn't already read Post seeing this are slim, here goes:I'm running a wholly unscientific reader poll that seeks to highlight local independent booksellers. A full explanation appears in a post below the polling area. I'm posting this link again here, because the poll's been viewed 180 times to

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Blog aggregation has been getting some local attention of late. Subtly, in LIB's invitation to the next Madison Blogger Roundup: "It doesn't matter if you're a politico, a foodie, a music critic, an aggregator, or a random muser." And more overtly, when Fearful Symmetries declared the local blog aggregators "virtually unusable"--citing dane101.net, madison miscellany, and Post as clogged with

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If twenty "new" posts appear in your reader sometime tonight, it's the result of some housecleaning, rather than an attributed-and-linked plagiarism binge. Proper new posts will appear tomorrow, but who knows how much we'll actually have written. On that note, we'd like to share Tony Legget's predictions for the new year, from the May 14th issue of the National Examiner:I'm sorry to say I see a

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Hastings just posted an email interview with comedian Eugene Mirman over @ Emcees Without Voices. That's a lazy Onion-quoting intro! Guess the stuff about google page rank manipulation is up our alley. In the clip below, Mirman conspires with a telemarketer selling sanctified long distance:Mirman and "friends"... 9pm @ Montmartre, tomorrow night.

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While Quantcast disclaims "we have sparse data about thedailypage.com, so these are rough estimates," threads chronicling the scourge of Daily Page forums' addiction give credence to the stats. (Like, say, 1% of users--the blue fiends who visit 30+/month, as seen on these here pie charts--accounting for 76% of visits.):Chuck_Schick [apparently soon to depart]: 10,000 posts over 1999 daysjjoyce:

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Wisconsin State Journal editor and proto blogger Ellen Foley pulled out all the digital stops to capture her recent commencement address at UW-Richland:And I'll offer you one bit of final wisdom that is the secret to success.... To help you remember this, I'm going to use one of those multimedia tools that you are so crazy about. I'm going to sing a song for you. A singing editor. This should be

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The Capital Times' and State Journal's coverage of the mass murder in Delavan, WI has been pwned by that of the Janesville Gazette and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel--not to mention the hometown paper's. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but from Sunday on, there were so many flavors of AP wire copy on madison.com. Which to choose?The previous link, with video ported from an ABC affliate in

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From the Cap Newspapers job listings (emph. added):VISUAL EDITOR-The Capital Times, MadisonThe Capital Times of Madison, Wis., seeks a manager to oversee all elements of visual journalism in print and, increasingly, online. This editor will be responsible for optimizing the impact of our visual journalism in all forms – working with a pending print redesign, ensuring timely and effective

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So many SICS:Make it a pulp magazine, like the Nation, or TV inserts. Capitol Newspapers has the resources to do this. The copies would have a much larger pass-along readership. The Post would become a new and unique critter in the local racks.That size is held closer to read and the type could be in 9 point with denser columns. Think Maximum Rock n Roll.Not the worst idea we've heard, but you'd

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So maybe we said that last thing.

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Hastings Cameron* writes:This afternoon, I ran into Ashok Kumar, who immediately asked about Post. Having spent much of the afternoon considering matters blog, I awkwardly demurred, but not before Kumar shared that he'd enjoyed Jessie Bluejay's Half Nelson takedown--brought to his attention by blog-to-print syndication, unnaturally.* OMG, we've been outed! What gave it away? The not particularly

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This was infinitely cheaper, safer, than the last time we tilt-a-whirled in search of lucite. Nonetheless, another frustrating trip to Visions, inspired by our favorite ironical stripper-obsessed artist.Also, she now pimps her wares via Gawker's hipster charity division! Go buy something.

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Evan O'Dorney's spellbound press tour:Homeschooling is a crime. [via Gawker]UPDATE: Apparently, Ann Althouse was a big fan.

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The lede of a recent Isthmus article re: Johnson street small businesses has proven unfortunately prophetic:Ramsey Finger worries that his store, Jade Mountain Bead and Jewelry, located on the 800 block of East Johnson Street, will be the next shop in that artsy retail district to hang a “For Rent” sign in the window.Pedestrians passing by 823 East Johnson will see Store Closing Sale signs

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...been more like this. What the first commenter said. Though I don't know how Mr. Astuteo feels about cats, or hip-hop.'--Submitted by madison.com correspondent Hastings Cameron, who is not bitter that his writing did not appear in print this go-round. He hasn't written anything for EONS.

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"I'm like: how'm i supposed to bang hot chicks with this huge ass elbow?"--sent in by real Bohemian blood.rBb overheard the above, "at a bar in milwaukee called the riverhorse. the dude was wearing a uw hat. he was also kind of fat. if i were that fat, i wouldn't be worried about my big ass elbow."

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Weary Traveler manager(?) guy:[That particular wine was] very mineral-y--very good. That's a company that I don't do business with anymore. They canned our good friend, who was their salesman--so I canned them.Got something for you to try though.[mixes drink]Vodka and bull's blood... They pasteurize it first.===Sent in by Hastings, who's too groggy to pretend he recorded that perfectly. He did

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Since we noticed they recently had the misfortune of their Google Ads circulating here, we're taking a moment to suggest that you patronize Modern Convenience--aka MoCo--Market.Also, feel free to click liberally on the other ads. We'd like to buy a condo and get a house account there. 7-11 for rich people foodies! Sushi!But does it come from Moonies? No George Herbert Walker.

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Could you play something that's not so disrespectful to women?--male "dancer" to female DJ @ Bassett Street house party, Saturday, 6/2The song was relayed to us as being one of those that recommends ass-shaking. Perhaps using the subjunctive. After careful deliberation, we conclude it must've been Booty Bass' "Shake That Ass Bitch."Maybe he was ashamed he couldn't get down like this:

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We think Jess Blais is the greatest addition to The Post since Uncle Jimbo fled to a fortified compound on South Park street. Blais' Post-presence, Antenna of Babel, is the first exception to a long-held conviction that verbatim blog-to-blog syndication for non-PSA A&E content is... retarded.* There are these things called links and excerpts... but more on that another day. Blais has regularly

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