YouTube – New Pornographers – Your Daddy Don’t Know

New Pornographers Fridays begin today in preparation for April 12th. Enjoy.

YouTube – New Pornographers – Your Daddy Don’t Know

YouTube – Okkervil River -”Westfall”

Okkervil Thursdays here at the Pandantic X as we count down to April 12th. So, with that, “Evil don’t look like anything …”

I should also note that I think I play a pretty rocking rendition of this song, myself. At least my wife and the cats seems to enjoy it …

YouTube – Okkervil River -”Westfall” – LIVE

Terminal #71: The People’s Mario

Terminal #71: The People’s Mario – via Mental Floss

Mario (of Mario Bros.) re-imagined as a Soviet era working people’s super hero, out to rid the world of clearly Capitalist mushrooms. Very cool. And disturbing.

McSweeney’s: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Sandwiches.

More pure genius from McSweeney’s:

McSweeney’s: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Sandwiches.

Stage Five – Muffuletta: When the needs provided by conventional sandwiches have all been satisfied, people begin to seek the whole loaf, which is ample enough to support a complex amalgam of ingredients, including layers of provolone, salami, and ham.

Lifehacker: Top 10 Smart and Lazy Ways to Save Your Workday

Lifehacker: Top 10 Smart and Lazy Ways to Save Your Workday

Gateway T station to close next year

I still can’t win.

Gateway T station to close next year

The Port Authority will close the Gateway Center light-rail station in mid-2009 to provide additional access and cut costs while a contractor builds a new subway station nearby.

mental_floss – 4 Famous TV Co-workers (who struggled to get along)

mental_floss – 4 Famous TV Co-workers (who struggled to get along)

Every work environment has its personality conflicts – that one co-worker that gets on your last nerve. Sure, you can do your best to avoid that person. But what happens if it’s someone you absolutely have to “make nice with” in front of millions of TV viewers and your career depends on it? The following are 4 great examples of just that.

23/6 – Finally! A Vegan Strip Club!

236 – Finally! A Vegan Strip Club!

So, you’re an animal rights activist who hates women. Okay, maybe “hates” is a little strong. Let’s just say you’re “threatened” by the “mouthy” ones. You’ve put in a long day captioning photos for your blog of Hillary crying in between your sun salutations, avoiding honey and omelets in line with your vegan diet, and priding yourself on the size of your carbon footprint for downloading Asian gangbang porn instead of driving to the video store to get it.

mental_floss Tuesday Turnip: 12 Pittsburgh Firsts

Go figure. All great things come from this town I guess. No point in arguing it now.

mental_floss Tuesday Turnip: 12 Pittsburgh Firsts

Today I typed in “Pittsburgh” “the first city to” unearthing the following from many different Web sites:1. First Big Mac – 1967. Created by Jim Delligatti at his Uniontown McDonald’s, the Big Mac debuted and was test marketed in three other Pittsburgh-area McDonald’s restaurants in 1967… Bellevue and Butler. By 1968 it was a mainstay on McDonald’s menus throughout the country and eventually, the world.

Obama Meets Edwards, Pledges Party Remake – The Nation

Hmm … For me to choose between Obama and Clinton, one of them is going to have to take a radically different stance on trade. It is the single most important issue to me and has not received much media attention since Edwards dropped out of the race. If any of the remaining candidates lays out a realistic plan to curb the unfair and often illegal dumping of foreign manufactured goods on our shores, I will support that candidate — and convince as many other folks as I can to do so.

Obama Meets Edwards, Pledges Party Remake

Obama has framed his Wisconsin campaign against Clinton as a fight over trade policy, but Obama’s record is not a whole lot better than Clinton’s on this issue. Edwards, who ran for the Democratic nomination this year as an ardent advocate for fair trade policies, has earned credibility with key unions — especially the United Steelworkers and to a lesser extent the United Auto Workers.

If an Edwards endorsement were to help break loose endorsements from those two unions, which remain powerful players in Ohio, it would be a dramatic boost for Obama.

Additionally, Edwards remains a particularly popular figure in rural and southern states. In Oklahoma, for instance, the former senator took more than 10 percent of the vote on February 5, after he had withdrawn from the race.