I just heard a teaser for a segment about freeipods.com on the 5 o'clock Fox News broadcast. Nuts. Less novelty = harder referrals.

I know this is a total blog no-no, but I have actual new information to contribute to the world. I know, it's weird. I'll get back to summarizing slashdot items soon, I promise. But for now...

On a whim I emailed The Arcade Fire from their website, asking them to come to DC since the latest date I can find for their current tour puts them in Philly on 1/31. And hey! I got a response back:

we are playing DC in late january.
luv
win.

Ohmygodohmygodohmygod! He noticed me! What ever will I wear?!

Wait... back to the hard-hitting investigatory journalism, no matter how many friends I lose or people I leave dead and bloodied along the way. Just one more paragraph, I promise.

The Arcade Fire is playing Asheville, NC on Thursday the 27th and Philadelphia on the 31st. DC is in between -- my guess is a Friday or Saturday night show at the Black Cat. Perhaps I'm overestimating the crowds they're drawing and they'll end up playing some hole in the wall on Sunday night... But the Asheville venue looks Black-Cattish in size. So I'm sticking by my prediction.

And YOU'RE ALL COMING. I personally guarantee this will be a great show.

UPDATE: Black Cat's got a show scheduled for January 29th, so a Friday or Sunday night show sounds like the best bet. It could always be at a different venue, of course...

okay, five billion months later, i am finally getting around to writing thank you cards for all you lovely people who donated to my fundraising efforts. so if you donated, please please email me your mailing address. all of you. even if you think i know it or already have it. i don't know it. i have terrible records and a worse memory. i have no idea where anyone lives. so send me mailing addresses, bitches! (except mr. wright, who sent me his ages ago, grazie!).

my coworker just came in with a report that he had met tom wolfe in the elevator. wearing a white suit, natch. what the fuck tom wolfe is doing in the elevator at the center for national higher education is beyond me - but, still, cool! i know he's in town today for a reading at the olsson's on 7th street. reviews for i am charlotte simmons have been, as far as i can tell, mixed. here's a slate book club exchange between two uva professors about the book. i don't know why they picked uva professors - we all know wolfe was portraying duke in the book.