Feist - 1 2 3 4

The latest CD from Feist has been keeping my headphones pretty warm lately, so it's about time I share the love.

I'm not a huge fan of music videos, but every once in a while, one comes along that's brilliantly executed. This is one of those videos. Enjoy!

One Smart Cookie

Look, ma! I'm gonna be smart!

Covered in Nast

Ah, what a productive day. I just got done taking my keyboard apart and cleaning the nast off of each key. It wasn't horribly gross, but it needed to be done.

Other than that it's been pretty quiet around here. I just hope that doesn't have anything to do with my own little cloud I've been sitting in, like my buddy Brak here:

Zoom Zoom

One word that I have never written on a check is "thousand."

Until today, that is.

The iPhone, as it should be

I'm so freakin' sick of the iPhone. I even get nauseated just typing its name. Sure, it's pretty and shiny and does lots of nifty stuff, just like the popular kids from school. But as Ani DiFranco once sang, "everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room."

But you didn't come here to hear me rant about why I think that the iPhone is just a blonde bimbo with a black soul. Instead, appease your destructo-lust and watch the prettiest girl in the room get her just desserts (you can see the black soul escape at 58 1/2 seconds into the video).


Wasn't that fun? Thanks, Tom. Keep up the good work.

[Link: WillItBlend.com]

Dressed to the Nines

The Rules believes that dressing one's pets is a surefire way to declare one's insanity. But if you're going to let the world know that you're nuts, might as well go out with a bang:


[via Gizmodo]

Gravity Reversal: Watch for Falling Prices

Walmart is a strange beast. It's like that guy at work who is annoying in a thousand different ways but is too useful not to keep around. I can't stand the messes on the shelves or the incompetence of the staff, and I keep going back. Part of it is that Walmart is open 24 hours, so I can make a grocery/DVD long after everyone else is closed. And it doesn't hurt that stuff there is so dadgummed cheap.

A few nights ago, a friend and I finished our bi-weekly Waffle House binge and decided to cap off our white trash evening and head over to Walmart to shop for stuff we didn't need. As we were cruising the electronics department, we were sucked in by the wall of flat panel TVs. Plasmas and LCDs of all sizes showing scuba divers and tropical fish in all their hi-def glory. It was all I could do to keep my buddy from buying one (or picking one up myself). A sexy little 19" model especially caught our eye, mostly because the $277 price tag meant that we both had enough in our checking accounts to pick one up. Granted, $277 is a bit much to drop on a TV that size, but the point is that it was within reach!

And then we leaned in closer to read the fine print and noticed something rather curious.


That's right. It was as if Walmart had hired a carnival barker to yell, "Hurr-ay, hurr-ay, step right up! Get yer LCD TV right here! Only $277! Used to be $267! Get 'em before the price goes up again!"

Farther down the shelf, there was another price tag boasting of a less-modest price increase.


Now, I know that Walmart stopped using their old slogan, "Watch for falling prices," but I didn't think they'd start going the other way!

Update: I sent these pics in to Consumerist.com, and they posted them here. Thanks guys!