If you like 60's R&B, 70's Stones or even early Kings Of Leon, you need to check out the Alabama Shakes:

that "...... WAIT!" in the chorus just kills.

MSNBC.com:

• Last month was the warmest March on record (records go back to 1895) at 51.1 degrees; this is 8.6 degrees above the 20th century average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• January-March was the warmest first quarter on record; the average temperature of 42 degrees was 6 degrees above average.
• April 2011-March 2012 was the warmest stretch of those 12 months on record; at 55.4 degrees, that period was 2.6 degrees above average.
• In March, 15,292 records were broken for warmth; 7,775 were new daytime highs in cities across the country and 7,517 were new nighttime highs.

Suck it, last year!

The Feelies are touring. And I got tickets to see them! Joy of joys!

It's not until September, though. Dismay of dismays ¡

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First up, my home town:

Man thrown out of bar for having sex retaliates by biting barman's finger off.

Next, my wife's home town:

A guest at an Ohio wedding wound up in jail charged with assault and intoxicated disorderly conduct. It all began when she refused to stop slow dancing with the groom, which escalated into a brawl with the bride and an attack on an off-duty police officer.

Sweet.

Putting the I in Story

In downtown Sarajevo.

One chair for each person killed in the Bosnian war.

via BoingBoing

Yay war.

Federal food safety inspectors said a proposal by the Agriculture Department to expand a pilot program that allows private companies to take over the inspections at poultry plants could pose a health risk by allowing contaminated meat to reach customers.

Currently, the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service inspectors are stationed along the assembly lines in poultry plants and examine the birds for blemishes, feces or visible defects before they are processed.

Under the planned expansion, the agency would hand over these duties to poultry plant employees, while the inspectors would spend more time evaluating the plant’s bacteria-testing and other safety programs. The department has run the pilot program in 20 poultry plants since 1998.

Do kids still have to read "The Jungle" in school these days?

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