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As a local music fan here in DC you can see me frequent DC9, Black Cat, Velvet Lounge, and many other venues around the city. Well I wanted to inform everyone of a CD release party for New Rock Church of Fire that’s happening at the 9:30 club on 12/27/08. So after you finish opening all your presents and have had a day or two to splurge on food and relax come support your local music.

On a side note, i just want to say that this band probably has the coolest fucking CD release party poster I’ve ever seen. I’ll let the poster do the talking.

Live at the 930 Club 12/27

First of all the whole band is riding some sort of wild animal with machine guns, whiskey and a meat cleaver. Oh and there’s also a fucking hawk on the guy’s arm. I don’t care who you are but that poster alone gives this band all the street cred it’ll ever need. The poster is just fucking cool.

If you guys like the art for this poster one of the band members just happens to be a comic book artist. You can check out more of his stuff at Barf Comics. I’ve had a chance to look through some of the comics and they look pretty interesting.

Ok, so here’s the deal. Go to the band’s myspace here http://www.myspace.com/nrcof and check out their music. My favorite track is Night is Silent. If you like what you hear definitely go to their show. I will be out of town so I won’t be there. At the very least tell them that poster is awesome.

Ok, with that I probably will take a long break from posting again since I’ll be in California til after christmas.

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I just saw this site on reddit http://giveupandusetables.com/ and think it’s the most ridiculous thing. Do people not understand that building sites in tables causes huge problems for screen readers and semantic markup? It also hurts your site’s SEO.

Markup should always remain seperate from the style of a site. Tables are finicky and are a pain to work with. With the advent of CSS3 the layout issues you currently have will be no more. Actually, when is that coming out? I need to figure that out. I guess it won’t really matter because until IE6 is gone we’ll still be stuck with the older languages. Curse you microsoft, and curse everyone who still uses that EIGHT year old browser. Take a look here: http://iedeathmarch.org/

With that said. Screw IE6 and don’t ever build a site using tables. Tables are for tabular data and charts, that’s it!!

Here are some great ambulation videos on this guy’s blog.

This is going to be a short post for now then I’m going to sleep. Obama’s speech was amazing. Actually, both speeches tonight were great. McCain’s and Obama’s alike. I really hope the nation pulls together now after this tumultuous race. I can honestly say that today I really felt proud about this country after 8 years of uncertainty. I was in downtown DC and the screaming and carrying on had me awestruck. The noise, the dancing, and cars honking all took my breath away. People were overjoyed. We were literally dancing in the streets.

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I was browsing toothpastefordinner and I saw this hilarious comic about English majors. I was an English major in college so it kind of hit home.

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1up.com recently ran an article about he uproar in Washington D.C. over the ads Bethesda Software has been running in Metro Center. I’ve seen them and they are actually very impressive. But, I’m not surprised someone would get upset about them.

This reminds me of that huge controversy over “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Independence Day” billboards that depicted very similar scenes of landmarks being destroyed.

But back then there wasn’t any controversy, because when movies do it, apparently it’s okay.

The article says, “In response to a series of Fallout 3 ads posted in the D.C. subway system, Anzalone voiced his concerns to the Washington Post in a letter to the editor. It’s his opinion that the ads — which depict a post-apocalyptic Washington, D.C. — are not only inappropriate, but that their protection is somehow unconstitutional.”

This is a good read so I recommend you digg it up and take a look.

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So I recently heard, after many years, the theme song to The Adventures of Pete and Pete. If anyone doesn’t remember this show, please look it up here. The band that wrote the song is called Polaris and wrote the whole soundtrack for the show. It’s actually some really good early 90′s indie rock. I’d say it’s a bit like an amercanized Stone Roses.

The title track for the show is called ‘Hey Sandy’ and I absolutely can’t get enough of it. It’s a short song but they say catchy songs tend to be sit around the 2:41 mark. Or so my friend tells me. Dopper Topper is apparently quite knowledgable about this kind of stuff.

I’ve had a sudden need to watch the series again because I used to watch it so much as a kid. I’m pretty sure I didn’t get half the jokes and I can safely say the show has contributed to my current sense of humor and personality. It’s a very random show, but it does it in such a unique way that you just can’t get enough.

If you haven’t heard the song I’m talking about here’s the intro video to The Adventures of Pete and Pete:

You can pick up the full album on Itunes here.

Obama ’08 – Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.

A super well done video. Props to the artist.