Basketball is infinitely improved by free food and booze.

Just bought tickets for Pitchfork — Saturday and Sunday only, as the 3-day passes were sold out already.

Hoping like hell kids get in free again. My will-be 8-year-old wants to go too.

So who’s in? July 16-17.

There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books.

George Santayana (via Jonathan Carroll)

http://www.drivecomic.com/

A webcomic I’ve just discovered (thanks to io9). Goofy humor, simple but evocative artwork, and a solid science-fiction storyline. I’m still paging through the archive to catch up, but it’s going on my RSS feed.

So I downloaded Part 1 of the SXSW 2011 torrent. (Squee!) I shuffled it up and picked the first track that came up, and here it is. Welcome to Kid Canaveral. They’re out of Edinburgh, and, unlike many of the bands I discover via SXSW, they’re actually, um, currently active. I consider it a good omen that they showed up first. Don’t know what it might be an omen of, but something good. And music-y.

And the nice thing is, I like this track. Upbeat, nice pop sound, with sort of a children’s chorus thing going on that kind of clashes nicely with the title. Sorry I won’t be able to see them in Austin (::shakes fist at sky and bellows “Some day!”::), but maybe they’ll come to Chicago one of these days.

I’m wet! I’m wet! And I’m still hysterical!

Bonus points to whoever identifies the quote

Yea, I’m futzing around trying to find a template I like (and considering jumping ship to posterous, just because I know a couple of folks with blogs over there).

Anyway, I kind of like this one, and it’s got the built-in music list so my adoring fans — I’m sure I must have some — can see what I’ve recently been listening to.

http://pitchfork.com/news/41745-pitchfork-music-festival-announces-initial-li…

So it turns out my son’s guitar teacher works at the Pitchfork Music Festival. If I’d known tickets were going on sale today, I would have gone to yesterday’s lesson to talk to him about it.

So the question now is…. do I have the $$$ for the 3-day pass?

This is an absolutely brilliant video. Joy Division done “darkwave township house” style — I don’t know what that means, but I like it. And the visual style is compelling.

South Africa is one of those places about which I have only the vaguest understanding — it just never rises to my eyeball level, so what I know about it is based primarily on the anti-apartheid protests and boycotts of the 1980’s. This video is not exactly an invitation to book travel, but it makes me realize that there are huge swaths of the world out there beyond my limited consciousness horizon.

Perspective.

via Dazed Digital

How do any of these Fox “News” personalities look at themselves in the mirror in the morning?

Why isn’t this hypocrisy and stupidity about teachers and other public workers made clear to the populace EVERY SINGLE DAY?