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For those of you getting into the holiday spirit, here are some tips for Drinking Responsibly During The Holidays

This is alot of the reason I am not for getting married – until same sex marriages are also legal. I am glad that there are actually other people who feel that it is wrong to use witholding the benefits of marriage as a method to marginalize same sex couples.

The Farnsworth House, by Mies Van Der Rohe, has been purchased at auction by the National Trust for 7.5 million dollars. So now it will be preserved on its site until the next (inevitable) flood takes its toll. Actually, I was kind of hoping someone would purchase it and do something a little more interesting – but then, I have a weird desire to violate its purity – see here.

For more about the purchase, go . here

Fannypack, I love them. What I want to know is, if they werent born yet in the 80’s, how come they do it so perfectly? L’Trimm got nothin on them, cept for Miami of course.

While you are out there doind yer holiday shopping, run all those CD titles through the RIAA Radar, so you can avoid putting any of your hard earned money into their pockets till they wise up and stop suing file sharers – RIAA Radar

A little while ago Tim Devin let me in on a little secret – he has posted The Street-Hieroglyph Documentation Project to the world wide web. He would have told you all this himself, except that he cannot get his Rise blog account to work yet, and I have no idea why. Anyway – go see this important document here ++++

This is incredibly fun, and not a good thing for me to discover on a friday morning when I have work to do. Type in a message, and it will be sung back to you via samples. Of course I saw it at TMN first.

This weekend at the LAtch – “Where the Art Starts and Stops”

Curated by Dawn Kasper

and most importantly,

featuring the musical gyrations of Luxxury

you miss it, and we are tying to you Paris Hilton and throwing you in the hog slop to wrestle. Unless you would like that of course. If that is the case, then no one can save you.

Its on Saturday, December 6 – doors open 8pm. Cost ya 3 bucks with a free drinky.

This weekend at the LAtch – “Where the Art Starts and Stops”

Curated by Dawn Kasper

and most importantly,

featuring the musical gyrations of Luxxury

you miss it, and we are tying to you Paris Hilton and throwing you in the hog slop to wrestle. Unless you would like that of course. If that is the case, then no one can save you.

Its on Saturday, December 6 – doors open 8pm. Cost ya 3 bucks with a free drinky.

Here it comes, the Governator starts screwing California. First victims: art therapy programs, food stamp users, doctors who treat Medi-Cal patients, public university recuitment (which could then impact enrollement, and tuition monies). Its gonna be a long term.Gov.’s Cuts to Hit Poor, Universities