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New podcast! http://bit.ly/d9MPap #

Time for a new edition of Random Radio! Click here to download the MP3 (60.9 MB @ 192 kbps) or stream it below.
Track list:
Crocodiles – Groove Is In the Heart / California Girls
Best Coast – Boyfriend
Toro Y Moi – Leaving Everywhere
UNKLE – Natural Selection (featuring The Black Angels)
Kele – Tenderoni
Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning (Alex [...]

I'm in! RT @infinitesummer: Autumn Leaves? Who's up for Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of Leaves" in September/October of 2010? #infsum #

Bill Murray! http://bit.ly/dnW8s5 #

One of the many things we loved about Paris was the butter. Specifically, Échiré butter. It’s like the champagne of butter, in that to be called Échiré it has to come from a certain area in France because the local soil is geologically distinct from surrounding areas. It’s cultured, contains 84% butterfat, and is produced [...]

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I can't begin to tell you how much I love this track. Crocodiles – Groove Is In the Heart/California Girls: http://bit.ly/cHuep9 #

You must must must go see Exit Through the Gift Shop at the Bytowne this week. Brilliant. http://bit.ly/doYidj #

Jellyfish – (song is Come Back When You Can by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

"In the middle of tomorrow, a great ribbed ghost has emerged from a distant yesterday." http://nyti.ms/cqI1H6 #

Thai beef salad

Chicken tostada salad

101 fast recipes for grilling

Caramelized butter rice krispies treats

Blueberry pudding cake

Raspberry buttermilk cake

Bystanders overestimate seriousness of injuries in "zombie" car crash: http://bit.ly/dv5DnM #

I’m terrible with math so it’s no surprise I completely miscalculated when we’ll be getting our kitten. I was thinking it would be late September/early October but no, it’s late August. Oops. I’m going to have to kitten-proof our apartment sooner than I thought. But still: yay! I’ve already started bookmarking reasonably priced non-hideous cat [...]

Call me cynical but I'm not unconvinced that this whole Russian spy business isn't just some sort of viral marketing for Salt. #

I'm so happy: the World Exchange whales are back! Meet me under the belugas! #

Excellent blog post by @cmkl: Diversity of tactics = rubbish http://bit.ly/b2cEfI #
Who's up for some gelato this evening? #

More (but very different) photos from Paris: http://bit.ly/9VVvNi #

While in Paris I became obsessed with/inspired by all the layers you could see beneath peeling paint and especially beneath torn up ads in metro stations. One day about midway through our trip we happened upon a metro station that was once covered by a huge billboard from end to end, [...]

Turning my attention to the Tour de France now that I'm not going to win my office World Cup pool. Bring on the crashes & doping scandals! #

So cute.

AT-AT day afternoon from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.