So your coworker has been on vacation for two weeks. What do you do? You plastic wrap their desk, of course!

That’s what we did to Matt’s (our copy editor) desk. It was a blank canvas just calling to us. Check out the video below.

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Lucha Libre hits the Orange County Fair! Click the image below to view the video.

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Yup yup, Brian said it right about the heat, tan lines and weed. I agree on the greatness of Daft Punk and Clap Your Hands, but not on a coupla others. Overall, I think the festival was fun, but there weren’t enough spectacular bands for me to salivate over. Can the Pixies come back please?

Daft Punk ruled Saturday. Two guys in robot suits poking around in their machines on stage — that’s all it took to bring down the house and create a thunderous ending for the otherwise scattershot day.

Brian liked Madonna, but I thought it was a fiasco to schedule her at the Sahara tent instead of the main outdoor stage. An enormous overflow crowd watched two giant screens outside the tent, while hundreds more walked away in disappointment. The show was slick and short. I felt used. She asked the crowd if her ass looked ok. Yes, it is still hot, and yes, you are a needy mother.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs was by far my favorite on Sunday. Karen Orgasmo put a mic down her throat. But not in this photo.

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Just returned from 10 days in my parents’ homeland - Japan. My seventh visit to the country, which continually fascinates me with its dichotomy of modern innovation and tradition.
Pictured above is the lovely bento lunch I enjoyed on the Shinkansen bullet train from Nagoya to Tokyo (just under 2 hours to travel the distance roughly the same as Los Angeles to San Francisco).

More “Only in Japan” video and photos follow …
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Omar returned from SXSW last Monday, and in his typical Sphinx-like way, gasped amusedly at his tin foiled-desk but said little else. What does this look say to you?

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We know it’s bad to laugh when other people get hurt, but when a guy VOLUNTEERS to get Tasered he’s just asking for it.
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