Do you still blog me?

My girlfriend and I are about to whip up a mean pair of stuffed pork chops, so I have to make this quick:

1. As some of you may know, I used to be an editor for Punknews.org before AP was so nice as to actually offer me money in exchange for skilled labor. The kind folks over at the 'Org asked me to write up a list of my personal best albums and songs of 2008, and I was more than happy to oblige. You can read it here, if you're interested in seeing what dominated my stereo this year.

2. The lady and I just got back from seeing Seven Pounds. I can't really talk about the movie without giving too much away, but I will say that it's most definitely worth seeing (even when tickets are $10.75 a person -- Chicago's movie theater prices are OUT OF CONTROL), and very sad and touching. Go see Milk first, because that film was brilliant, but after that, see this (and after that, see Slumdog Millionaire, which I saw the other day with my folks -- it's one of the strangest yet most honest love stories I've seen in a very long time).

3. Remember my blog the other week about Head Automatica on The Tonight Show? Of course you do. Well, thanks to loyal blog reader Toya, I've been alerted to the clip's presence on the ol' interweb. The video is below; skip to roughly the five-minute mark to watch Daryl Palumbo's eyes bug out of his head. Hilarious stuff:



Hope all your holidays are going well. I stepped in a foot-deep puddle last night and now my only pair of shoes smell kind of like sewage. Anyone got a pair size 14 wides lying around their house? Lemme know!