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Thurston Moore, “Fri_End”

Grumpy bicyclist on the 5-Boro Bike Tour doesn’t like to stop for pictures. View full set (of only five pictures).

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This is sad. One of my favorite little stores in Brooklyn, perfect for gifts and notebooks and expensive handbags you’ll never buy (but maybe you will, now, with the closing sale!).

I just read Jami’s Book Notes thingie for Largehearted Boy wherein she references that one awesome parking lot show in the early 00s in Williamsburg and also an early Hold Steady show at Mighty Robot in 2003. I fell in love that night. Craig later told me this was his favorite picture of himself ever taken besides his wedding photos. Of course, they weren’t famous then…. For all I know, he likes this newest press pic better.

Their new album, “Stay Positive,” comes out July 15. (I wish they’d called it “Positive Jams.”)

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This Santogold album is pretty consistently decent. Liking, not loving. But liking a lot, I think. Kinda regretting getting too drunk to stay at that Metromix-sponsored show a couple months back….

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This Whim by Cynthia Rowley 30-can cooler will be with me and my beer-drinking brethren on the beach in South Carolina in exactly 59 days.

My friend Pam with Dog the Bounty Hunter, bounty-hunting.