Arbor Day award given to Wal-Mart for destroying wetlands

Does this make any sense? Wal-Mart has environmentalists in their pockets now?

This is almost as bad as Halliburton’s relationship with the Dub-ernment. America is officially the Evil Empire.

Popular Mechanics predicted Katrina disaster on 9/11/01

Scary. This is creepier than the $20 bill. Just goes to show you how on top of their game the Army Corps of Engineers are. By the time this hurricane season is over, New Orleans will be in Arkansas.

Man breaks world record for watching TV

Some of his favorite shows that he watched during the 69 1/2 hours of watching were: Alabama Valley St. vs Lemming State (Div IV football), La Puta (a Mexican soap opera), and 68 hours of the Spice Channel.

Beached whale blown up in South Africa

Who doesn’t love an exploding whale? It’s one of nature’s most majestic events. One of the world’s largest beasts gets turned into 1000’s of tiny beasts. Remember from 4th grade? That’s a physical reaction.

Related: the Infamous Exploding Whale

Doves - Avalon

Score: 81 out of 100

As solid as ever, our boys hit up Avalon for the 2nd time this year. It wasn’t as electric as the previous show, but nearly as good anyway, and it’s comforting to know we can always count on them for a good night.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - T.T. the Bear’s

Score: 66 out of 100

Their stage presence was relatively shy and deer-in-the-headlight-ish, but overall, they halfway rocked the sweatbox. The music’s just a tad too simple to be very impressive live.

Sigur Ros - Boston Opera House

Score: 100,000,000,000 out of 100

Best venue/band combination ever. Sigur Ros filled the entire hall up with slowly-crescendoing waves of curves and crashes. Pretty much unbelievable. Still reeling.

13 & God - MFA

Score: 83 out of 100

Front row, center. Crappy acoustics, but enthusiastic antics from doseone kept us all on the edge of our seats. Damn doseone pulled my sandal off during the show. They played Notwist’s “Pick Up the Phone”, which made the encore pure pleasure.