the reality tunnel

4/8 – Rad 5 Day I: Counts of Bounce, Ready T @ Bloomington Playwrights Project
4/9 – Rad 5 Day II: Flosstradamus, Action Jackson, Flufftronix @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater | $13 advance, $15 day of | Order tickets now!
4/10 – Rad 5 Day III: Fancy Footwork w/Action Jackson + Special Guest DJ Wushu @ The Cinemat | [...]

Update: pushing this to the top because I messed up the quadrillion babes upload.
I ripped a few tracks from the Quadrillion Babes and Gourmet Scum Performances at WFHB’s fundraising Local Live Live show:

Quadrillion Babes – Party Song
Quadrillion Babes – Water Babies
Gourmet Scum – Hash Slinger
Gourmet Scum – Slime Trail

Here is an image that Mary made for people to put on their blogs/MySpace pages to promote the Boxcar/Pages Rock N’ Roll Prom.

The Archives of Traditional Music announces a sale of duplicate sound recordings (78s, LPs, cassettes, CDs) and books throughout the genres/subjects of jazz, world, folk, blues opera, reggae, rock, classical, opera, folklore, anthropology and music history.
The sale will take place Friday April 4 from 10:00am to 5:00pm in the Hoagy Carmichael [...]

This morning, it was storming in Bloomington, with the thunder long and booming, so it sounded like bombs.  A few booms were followed by the sounds of sirens, and even though I knew it was just coincidence, the sense of danger, destruction, and things ending did not seem impossible.  I read in the New York [...]

Bookmooch is a big supporter of the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project and they give free points (used to trade books on their site) to Pages so we can request books from their users for people in Prison.  Recently, John Buckman, the Bookmooch founder blogged about a proposal for using Bookmooch as an alternative distribution [...]

I just got an e-mail asking of Defiance, Ohio wanted to do an interview for a zine called Even If Your Voice Shakes which is put out by some folks involved with the Riot Folk collective.  It made me think about some of the discomfort that I have with folk music and that moniker being [...]

Update: Apparently Houston is going for it, planning on deploying 10 wifi ‘bubbles’ in low-income areas.  Link to Houston Chronicle article about the plan.
From the NYTimes (via the Community Informatics Researchers mailing list):
PHILADELPHIA — It was hailed as Internet for the masses when Philadelphia officials announced plans in 2005 to erect the largest municipal Wi-Fi [...]

Vegan Bake-Easy
209 N. Madison Street (6th & Madison). No phone, follow the cupcake signs.
2-8pm.
$5 drink & dessert special
All baked goods are made fresh and vegan.
From the Bake Easy’s founder:
The official opening of The Bake Easy was March 1st and I had a sneak
peak a couple of weeks before. All bakery items are vegan, prepared on
site [...]