Peel Sessions in the NY Times!

John "Prolly" Watson gets interviewed about his weekly Peel Sessions! Audio slide show as well! Nice work!

Car Free America!

A collection of essays from the NYTIMES on the idea of living car free in America. Check it out here and then go hug your bike.

RIP Marilyn Chambers

Adult film star Marilyn Chambers, of "Behind the Green Door" fame is dead at 56. More here.

I know, it's sez "Dienasty"...

But this is something to think about..."Some 21 percent of autopsies for New York City bicyclists who died within three hours of their accidents detected alcohol in the body, according to a Department of Health and Mental Hygiene study that examined fatal bicycling accidents in New York City from 1996 to 2005." from the NYTimes article here. 

I know from my own experience how completely wasted friends and I myself have been before getting on our bikes to ride home. Never thought it was a good idea before, maybe seemed fun at the time/sometimes scary, but this article gives me pause. Gotta live a little more nasty, minus the drinking and riding, before dying nasty, which is more of a state of mind than a physical state of don't wanna look at that catastrophe cuz it'll make me wanna puke.

This public service annoucement brought to you by DIENASTY.

Culinary Brooklyn!

I love food. I love New York. And I definitely love Brooklyn. This is a good time to be living here. Check out this article from the NY Times today and wish you were eating something other than your usual fare. Something from the hearts, hands, and minds of one of the above persons.

Skateistan!

Australian skater, Oliver Percovich, has brought skateboarding to the kids of war torn Afghanistan. Awesome work! He's looking to create an indoor park with classes in English and computers. Check out his site here and make a tax deductible donation if you can (look under US Trust Account for US citizens)!

Definition of a Badass!

This is Rich Wilson, badass adventurer. He's currently sailing around the world in the Vendee Globe, an around the world solo race that is more about just finishing and surviving than coming in first. Check out the article here and his site here, where you can read his blog.

Acrassicauda is free!

Talk about metal or death! These guys are finally free from Iraq, living in Jersey (how appropriate it seems), and ready to make some motherfucking noise! Here's the most recent chapter in their story. Props to Vice Magazine for helping them out. Look for them at a show in Brooklyn soon, I'm sure!

RIP Joe Ades, AKA Peeler Man

The peeler man of Union Square Greenmarket is dead. RIP.

HEALTH CARE NOW!

I've always been a fan of Paul Krugman. Here's a good op-ed piece on the need for health care reform now more than ever.

College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.

Is everything in this country falling apart at once? I mean wtf? Whose fault is this? Some say that the "government" has purposefully dumbed down the educational system and I guess now some would say even if you were smart enough to go to a good school, if you're poor forget about it, as if they wanted to create a new "serf" class of workers. But did anyone stop to realize that the times are a changin' and that the future was gonna need some smart people who could work with their minds and not just their hands? Shit the people that can work with their hands are starting to disappear too as their jobs are shipped overseas. Enough! I know it's cheap but we need to stop shopping at Wal-mart and start making some quality products here at home. Don't get me wrong, I love the world and have travelled a bit of it so far but we're just shittin' the bed here. Let's get it together. Article here.

New Worlds!

A picture of a planet going around another sun, somewhere very far away. 

AWESOME!

IRAQ WAR ENDS!

Too bad it's not true, but an awesome prank nonetheless.
Check out more from the pranksters themselves, the Yes Men, here.
And a review of a 2004 documentary on the group here.

And the group itself here.

OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT

If you hadn't heard and it should come as no surprise considering, but the NY TIMES has thrown their hat in for Barack. If you're still "undecided", read this...word.