The Onion | Gourmet Rock | Aug. 28 [CLIP]

An interview with The New Porno- graphers on Slow Food for the The Onion A.V. Club San Francisco section. Only available in print, so get off your sallow ass and grab a copy. Best headline in the issue:

U.S. Advises Allies Not To Border Russia

Outside Lands Festival | Photos | Rolling Stone [Captions]

Outside Lands Festival | Photos | Rolling Stone| Many captions by David Downs

Radiohead, Wilco, Beck Top San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival | Rolling Stone | Rock and Roll Daily [CLIP]

... Backstage at Sharon Jones' tent, the queen of funk said if McCain wins, she's leavin' the country. ...

Link to story: Radiohead, Wilco, Beck Top San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival | Rolling Stone | Rock and Roll Daily| By David Downs

Steve Winwood, Les Claypool Prep for San Francisco’s First Outside Lands Festival : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily [CLIP]

Steve Winwood is so smart and has such a dry sense of humor, people don't even know when he's taking the piss out of them. It reminded me of some quote about an Englishman that remained utterly unconvinced his entire life that anyone could be smarter than him. The original quote was supposed to be a dig, but Steve just flips that shit and owns it.

Claypool: Still in the zone as well.

Steve Winwood, Les Claypool Prep for San Francisco’s First Outside Lands Festival | Rolling Stone | Rock and Roll Daily| By David Downs | 08.07.08

Inside Outside Lands | East Bay Express | Cover Story [CLIP]

This story comes in at, like, 5,000 words or ten pages, single-spaced, 12 font. What a beast. My files on APE had their own "Table of Contents". ... It reminds me of what Dr. Jones once said about 99 percent of archaeology being done in the library. You wouldn't know it from reading it. It works because it uses a lot of AAJ tricks like scene-by-scene construction, dialog, status symbols, recreation, and third-person omniscient, combined with a bunch of documents digging and phone interviews. This is a personal highlight of 2008. East Bay Express | News | Inside Outside Lands | 08.13.08

Why I Leaked It: Ben Folds Comes Clean About His Fake (And Real) New Album, "Way To Normal" | Rolling Stone [CLIPS]

Ben took this call at 7:30 a.m. in a hotel in Australia and was surprisingly lucid.

"My wife is just wondering what's going on, because I just shot up out of bed and started talking to myself," he said half-way through the interview.

Talking with Ben Folds reminded me a lot of erudite, wry conversations with Ted from The Heavenly States. They need to hook up.

08.13.08 | Rolling Stone | By David Downs

ComicCon Elvish and Klingon for WIRED [CLIPS]

"I have to go to the bathroom. Will you help me to remove my Stormtrooper armor?"

Elvish: Horyan karita nén. Á aukola ambassenya Húrohosséva ránin.
1337: brb bio.unzip pls?
Klingon: puch vIlo'nIS. may'luchwIj vIteq 'e' HIboQ.
Pirate: Arrrh, can ye help me shuck this scurvy husk so's I can unleash a deluge?

Notes: A longer web version will run on WIRED.com soon. Props to the KLI and the Tolkien linguists for being so down.

How to: Boost Your Geek Cred | WIRED | August 2008

Gelf Magazine "You'll Be Your Mirror" [CLIPS]

Alan Kirby writes that we've "lashed fantastically sophisticated technology to the pursuit of medieval barbarism" (Assassin's Creed?) and that our destiny is "to suffer the anxiety of getting hit in the cross-fire." Games like Metal Gear Online have bottled that anxiety, and I will give game companies all my money for a fix.

Gelf Magazine | You'll Be Your Mirror | 08.01.08 | By David Downs