Hey pedestrian! Get back in your SUV, you're ruining the planet

I consider myself to be a connoisseur of bad reporting. Thanks to our 'fair and balanced' media, we always get 2 sides to every story, no matter how stupid one of those sides may be. Today I discovered a fantastic example of this:

Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’
(courtesy of www.timesonline.co.uk)

Dominic Kennedy wants to tell you that the food required to compensate for a walk to the grocery store (which is 3 miles, since you obviously live in the suburbs) is more harmful to the environment than the pollution from your car. Over the course of the article, Mr. Kennedy compares airplanes to cattle, ignores the transportation costs of gasoline, then finishes off his article with one brief, previously unmentioned comment that solves the whole dilemma.

As an additional bonus, there are some silly 'facts' thrown in after the article.

Under The Influence Of Kitchens

.... Of Distinction, I mean.

Yet another slice of dreamy, echo/delay drenched guitar pop for you kids. Someday I'll write a songs that uses actual chords, but for now I'm having too much fun with all my effects toys. Phasers are cool, because they make me sound like The Cure's guitar tech.

I promise the next one will be punkier.

The Winner Of The Internets

This next post is like the atomic bomb of cool. Ever wanted to own the General Lee? How about Excalibur (well, ok, the prop of Excalibur from the John Boorman movie)? Or Daschiell Hammett's signed contract for After The Thin Man? Or - and this one blows my mind - Howard Chaykin's pre-production poster for Star Wars?

The company is called Profiles In History, and they do auctions specializing in Hollywood memorabilia - everything from autographs and posters to stuff like Marilyn Monroe's prescription bottles to Number 5 from the movie Short Circuit - not a replica, mind you. The actual robot.

This is why I'll never be rich. If I had $150 000 laying around, I could think of nothing better to spend my money on than the General fucking Lee.