If you are in the Palm Springs area, make sure and stop by M Modern to see new works from The Pizzmeister himself.

I’ve never considered myself much of an icon, but now that I’ve gotten my picture taken by Dan Monick at the Blood is the New Black photo booth at the UNITED Trade Show in Vegas, things have changed. I’ve arrived, so deal with it. Dan’s also taken pictures of Annie Hardy from Giant Drag, Slug from Atmosphere and fellow gangsters, the dudes who worked the kitchen at the Alexis Park Hotel.

Thanks for the tuna salad sandwich and fries. To see pictures of people far more fashionable than the cooks and myself, look here.

Until March 5th, The Shins are running a contest on Imeem.com for aspiring poster designers. The winner will get tickets to a Shins concert in Boston–including hotel and air fare–as well as have 150 posters featuring their design passed out at the show. I’d say something snarky about this, but the whole thing seems pretty damn cool. Check out their page for details.

PrintableColdSores.blogspot.com is offering free cold-sore stickers to their viewers to download and fight back against the swarming ads that are thrown in our face everyday. You can’t walk down the street without seeing ads, but now you can add a little spice to them by strategically placing cold-sore stickers on the beautifully photoshopped model’s faces.

via Wooster Collective

Read Julia Wertz’s Fart Party while you should be working. Just do your best to laugh quietly.

I received a message from my publicist buddy Matt, who spoke to Kermit at IAJE last summer. Kermit was paying $5,000 per week on antibiotics alone. Encourage people to make tax-deductible donations, and attend this awesome benefit show if you’re able.

“Though he has never released an album under his own name, the bassist Kermit Driscoll has had a considerable impact in adventurous jazz circles over the last 20 years. Mr. Driscoll first emerged as a close compatriot of the guitarist Bill Frisell during an influential stretch from the mid-1980s through the mid-'90s.

Mr. Driscoll concurrently tangled with an honor roll of downtown composer-improvisers like the alto saxophonist John Zorn and the trumpeter Dave Douglas, with whom he worked in a collective called New and Used.

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