How's THAT For Timing?

Right right right... so Jef the Chef kept fussing about naming the thing the Via Fall/Winter Seasonal (dood was bitter about me selling out autumn before it's time was up), but who called it? Anyway, big big thanks to all the folks who came and filled out Triple Crown with us this weekend; the support's always appreciated and we had a gooder times. It's also very possible that we've finally found a good match with Kit & company @ Triple Crown, so don't be surprised if the Via Miserable Bitter Winter Seasonal takes place in Williamsburg.

This post's gonna be long; I know the News & Booze has been slacking off some, especially while Ix has been getting his photobloggery on and The Captain's releasing vinyl and and.. well, keep your eyes posted on Loose Tape for the remix project the Via Diablos put together in the week leading up to the Seasonal. The point is I've been slipping over here with the regular updates, so I'm playing catch-up. For your cubicle enjoyment, more mindless link-o-rama:

I don't really wanna give this one away. It involves genitals and basketball and made me laugh. Thank god for Crailtap!

Lee Quinones is my hero.

On a semi-related note, about graf legends and bicycles and what not, here be a quickie feature from Freshness Mag about the Futura/Lance Armstrong collabo (I know this is old).

I didn't really think anything of the Stussy World Tour shirt until I peeped the back. Fucking hell. Nobody told me it upped Santa Ana! Hometown pride strikes again; I will be rocking this tee to my grave.

Diplo plays at the Guggenheim for January's First Friday. Mellows.

Spinna's Soul Slam Holiday Jam (Michael Jackson vs Prince party) pops off again this Saturday.

Justin at What Do You Know? puts us onto The Invisible Shield for your iPod, made from a film "originally used to protect the leading edges of helicopter blades.

Even cooler though (and also from Justin), is this: Face Transformer. Commentary from Mr. Ewe:

It's a java program that takes an image of any person you upload and morphs it into different ages and nationalities. I don't know, it's kinda weird but if you've ever wondered what you'd look like if you 80 years old or from East Asia, check it out.

New Can Ox Track ...I was hoping I'd get nostalgic for freshman dorm room backpacker ciphers, but uh... I dunno. Pretty cool to hear Vast and Vordul on an El Producto beat, but I still can't decide how I feel about it.

The Hard Drive is the New Bling ... I swear to god that's the copy from Hitachi. I couldn't make that shit up if I tried.

Madlib's viddy for Sound Directions. Was real excited to find out about YNQ's new stuff using real musicians and not just a bunch of Otis alter-egos. Not to hate, but sometimes the noodling starts to sound a little too noodly.

Skate Videos FOR DAYSSSSSSSS (thank you The Hundreds)

Taiyo Incredible put us onto this pretty interesting interview with Saigon from Murder Dog. Anyone else catch him referring to Aesop Rock?

Prisoners of the Census (via Gothamist). From the website:

PrisonersoftheCensus.org is a special project of the Prison Policy Initiative to quantify, publicize, and reform the current practice of utilizing the Census to shift political power away from poor and minority communities and into the hands of prison expansion proponents.

Oh and.. I know this one's old too, but considering how winter's finally decided to steamroll us over, this Sony advert put a pretty wide grin on my face. Sunny day in the Bay with um... 250,000 superballs? Probably that will get me through about a week of bitterness I think. Mellow muzak by Jose Gonzalez.