Switch to CREDO Mobile and Help Duchenne Research
on Nov 7, 2009 in Family Kids Life News CREDO Mobile has a $100 referral program; they’ll cover the cancellation fee on your existing mobile contract and give you a free phone, plus they’ll give me $100 for referring you. For each $100 I receive for this, I will donate the mone...

Help Needed for Duchenne Research
on Oct 22, 2009 in Health Kids Life News "muscular dystophy" charity dmd duchenne ppmd I’ve been posting this everywhere lately so I might as well post it on here as well… I was hoping some of you might like to donate to our fundraising page for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). A couple of weeks ago my wife, Gina, and I a...

Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ale
on Oct 6, 2009 in Beer Reviews This beer is terrible. I’ve had three bottles so far (two the first night and one last night) and have awakened with a bad headache the past two days. On top of that, while I don’t have exquisitely refined taste buds, I’m just not c...

The Almighty Defenders
on Oct 1, 2009 in Music Video "black lips" "king khan" bbq VBS.tv vice I wasn’t able to post this video on the GaragePunk Hideout because it doesn’t have the appropriate embed tags (you know, like you get from YouTube, Blip, Vimeo, etc.), so I’m going to post it here instead. Enjoy! And don’t for...

My Morel Bed
on Sep 29, 2009 in Food Gardening Home Projects Morels I hadn’t intended on writing a blog post about this, but a few people on Twitter asked how I did it, so I thought I’d go ahead since it’d be a bit too difficult to explain via tweets. Elm logs, bark and hardwood mulch surrounding th...

STLtoday.com Doesn’t Want You to See Their Site
on Sep 23, 2009 in News Rants St. Louis Web This is what I was greeted to when I went to check STLtoday.com this morning: Not one, but TWO ads that both grow and cover up not only the site menu but also most of the stories on the front page… one right after the fucking other. Yeah, yeah...

Thee Lordly Serpents on the Wayback Machine
on Sep 12, 2009 in Music St. Louis Next up in my short little series featuring music recorded by bands playing on my radio show at KDHX is a set by local garage-rockers Thee Lordly Serpents, featuring Roger Ward on drums/vocals, Mike McDaneld on guitar/vocals, and John Ebert on bass/l...

Red Planet on the Wayback Machine
on Sep 10, 2009 in Music I don’t even believe this band is around anymore, but there were five years ago, when they were on tour and had stopped in St. Louis on July 5, 2004, to play a show at the Hi-Pointe that somehow got cancelled. So instead of playing there, they...

Youthbitch
on Sep 7, 2009 in Music Doc Detroit hipped me to this band, which features the son of Steve Pohlman, the guy that runs Off Broadway on Lemp. I guess they’re based out of Portland, OR, which is too bad… it’d be nice to see more bands like this spring up rig...

T.S. Eliot on St. Louis
on Sep 6, 2009 in Quotes St. Louis T. S. Eliot “It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one’s childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people...