Menomena makes me wonder what kind of bad karma they have. Not only have they been ignored for a major release of their wicked phat dope album, I Am The Fun Blame Monster, until now, but their tours have been non-existent and that pisses me off.

So they finally show up in Boston in a terrible middle support slot on an even crappier tour, so we shelled out the $9 and just showed up between the opening and headlining bands. So glad we did.

They played about 6 songs in a hurried, shortened set, which was presumably due to doing too much blow in the green room. All the songs were off their album, and all sounded pretty impressive, save everyone’s inability to sing. Either they’d all been chain-smoking for 48 hours or they use the *Nsync voice-enhancing technology in the studio and couldn’t bring it on the road.

They did , however, bring pretty solid mix of electrosorbing sound effects, jagged guitar, and thunderchunky drums, and pulled off a half-assed 3-man show better than any I’ve seen in a while.

Despite leaving me with a significant amount of breath, there are plenty of aspects of their show that were perfect, and others that can easily be fixed. The next time they’re around, though, they owe us a drink.

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Mexican Town Surrenders to Rats

Atascaderos is officially the first town to fall in the Great Rat War that has raged in Mexico for more than three months. The national army outpost that stood for over 200 years burned to the ground last night as rats poured into the streets and took many victims.

The rat army has moved towards the Pacific coast, and its wake of destruction looks to go unabated for weeks to come.

Rats Overwhelm Bulgarian Capital

The European Rodent Liberation Army has swept through central Bulgaria, spreading pestilence and AIDS at an alarming rate. Albania will likely fall by week’s end, and the rat warlords will surely be bent on attacking the heart of Europe: Slovenia

If Slovenia should fall, war analysts predict the rats would easily march across Germany and France, as years of overeating and laziness have rendered most Central Europeans incapable of killing the army of roughly 10,000 rats-per-human.

Rat Raised by Birds

The evolution of the flying rat has begun right on schedule.

Boy with leukemia needs home without rats

Doctors have diagnosed the boy with a potentially-fatal combination of extreme leukemia and third-degree rat bites, and the outlook has worsened over the last few hours.

With the rats holding the boy hostage inside his home, doctors are unable to reach him to replenish his precious bodily fluids. Police and emergency authorities estimate the boy has about 6 more hours before he succombs to his crippling diseases. Developing…