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Wu-Tang + The Beatles = Awesome. The whole album is streaming for free so get it while you can. Brian I want a copy.

http://wutangvsthebeatles.bandcamp.com/

Come Visit the More Scenic GRAND RAPDIS

So not that any of you needed a better reason than me living in Grand Rapids to come and visit, I thought I would give you a taste of what you could be passing up:

1. A cooler Sonic

2. Mmm…Microbreweries: Grand Rapids Brewing, B.O.B.’s House of Brews, Founders Brewing, Schmohz Brewing
The Hopcat

3. Giffins (hockey) $1 beers & $1 hot dogs or Whitecaps (baseball) $2 double hotdogs & $2 beer

4 The Bob: A multi-faceted entertainment center and restaurant complex featuring five restaurants, a micro-brewery, night club and comedy club.

5. G. Love & Special Sauce March 11 at The Intersection

6. Rain: a Tribute To the Beatles March 5 at DeVos Performance Hall

7. Hometown of Gerald R. Ford the 38th President of These United States (cause someone has to clean house after Nixon’s bullshit)

8. Grand Raggidy Roller Girls

9. Mojo’s Dueling Piano Bar

10. Yesterdog (not quite a Chicago Style dog but when it’s close enough to walk to, that’s good enough for me)

Ooh and this shit is pretty cool too (ARTPrize 2009 Winner):

(11. Nora smells)

Come Visit Scenic MILWAUKEE

Not that any of you needed better reasons than Brice and myself living in Milwaukee to come visit I thought I would provide a little incentive of some exciting happenings.

1. Sonic

2. Betsy and Bernie

2. Admirals College Night Games = $5

3.  Dr. Dog February 4th at Turner Hall

4. .357 String Band February 12th at Turner Hall

5. Brian, Ellen tells me you are a huge fan of hippies/long-hairs and Sound Opinions

6.  The Chieftains February 6th at the Pabst

7.  Many others including Vampire Weekend, G. Love and Special Sauce, Magnetic Fields, Tegan & Sara, Tossers

If you had not already noticed I have spent a lot of time on the Pabst/Riverside/Turner Hall website.

On the cheaper side there is Dice every night of the week at the Harp and Sham (Ellen, Brice, and Kelly know it well)

Finally, obviously Sobelmans… highly delicious

Plastic toys are now a means of saving the world.

So by now it should be no secret that I do, in fact, play World of Warcraft. I don’t know if it’s more difficult to admit that or the fact that I’ve been playing it since it’s release date on November 23, 2004. Either way, 5 + years (give or take a few breaks) seems like a bit much to play the same game. I don’t know if it’s the freedom to go anywhere and do anything, or the fact that I’ve become acquainted with several people through the game and just enjoy playing with them as opposed to the 13 year old kids that cry on Xbox Live. Either way, I’ve given thought recently to how I would go about weening myself off this past-time, since I’ve been about as successful trying to quit cold turkey as I have been with cigarettes. Then I remembered a banquet I served for Al-Anon, and learned something from my mother that day – People will often free themselves from an addiction by replacing it with a new one. Sure as shit, every person in that room who was proud to be sober for x-amount of time was sucking down cigarettes or chugging coffee like it was going out of style.

Onward. I realized that the easiest way to slowly kill my addiction was to replace it. Recently, I discovered the substance that WoW only served as a gateway drug for:

Yes. What you just saw was Lego Evil Dragons and Shit try to ruin the Lego world, and all the noble Lego-people (knights, racecar drivers, astronauts, construction workers, ninjas, pirates) setting aside their petty squabbles and banding together to defeat this purple and black force. I, for one, cannot wait. Every time I hit that point where I want to stop playing a particular game (i.e. Grand Theft Auto 4, Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Left4Dead, Left4Dead2) a new game comes out that piques my interest.

On the topic of Video Games, I also present you with a mash-up I came across as well: