The Modern Age

Today I went to my company picnic. It was totally dope. It was tricked out with petting zoos, pony rides, manicure stations, massages, skee-ball, rock climbing walls, fishing, and awesome organic food–and loads of other cool stuff. It was best ever. I vote for company picnic ever week of the summer!
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Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 got engaged this past weekend. They’re going to make the most angst-filled, short, Canadian babies ever. Here’s to the happy couple.

Wow, I totally forgot that Annie was playing at Hiro last night…until now. My mind is on vacation. Shows how much I care.
UPDATE: Oops. It’s today. I thought today was Wednesday. Um, what’s everyone doing for 4th of July weekend?

Here’s the lineup for a free event going down this Wed (June 29) at Virgin Megastore in Union Square in support of the ONE campaign. My favorite part of the lineup is that Billy Corgan is listed as a “(tentative)” performer for this event. Seriously, is he waiting for a better gig fighting world poverty […]

Surefire plays Shout! on July 3.

Fader has rolled out some nice White Stripes wallpaper for your downloading pleasure. Check it out. Thanks to the reader who sent this tip in.

KCRW’s Nic Harcourt is this country’s John Peel, having “discovered” acts like Coldplay, Dido, David Gray, and Norah Jones. The NYT reveals what it’s like to be a purveyor of cool.
Rolling Stone reports that The Stooges will be re-releasing a deluxe double CD of 1969 and Fun House on August 16 on Rhino Records, with […]

Tess was so kind to notify me that the Strokes site has been updated and newsletter #8 is apparently on its way.
If you can’t wait until it hits your mailbox, get your Strokes fix by reading the summaries of the new tracks off the album, courtesy of NME. (Link from Product Shop.) Yes…there’s a song […]

I was just surfing the Sanrio site to check out some new products when I found a cute feature on the origins of Hello Kitty. As I clicked through the bio, I noticed that all of Hello Kitty’s family members have the last name “White.” There’s her sister, Mimmy White, her mom, Mary White, and […]

Woah! If you haven’t watched the video of Tom Cruise on the Today show from this morning, you have not lived! Please “do the research!” Seriously, what is he talking about? What is he saying? Why does Katie look like a mindless zombie? Poor Matt Lauer–you can really tell toward the end how terrified he […]