Photos are up of Hubba Hubba Revue, and also Immortal Technique.

By the way. Do you like us? Are we friends? Have you proved it? Have you? Because if you haven't friended us on the various social network sites, that means you hate us. That's how it works. So far, we're on Facebook, MySpace, SonicLiving, Last.FM, Going, Upcoming, and Twitter.

Please friend us. If you don't, we might start cutting again.

We've got staff spending many hours a week just updating the event info on these (and a few other) web sites. It's a disturbingly manual process, since almost none of these sites are willing or able to read the iCal and RSS feeds we provide, so someone has to sit there and cut and paste the events into the various forms. It's kind of ridiculous.

Are there other sites that you think our events should be listed on? There are countless others, but these seemed to be the most popular ones, last time we checked... It's kind of hard to tell.

At the Immortal Technique show, some colossal shitbag carved their happy pirate name into the men's room mirror, five feet across. Also, a couple dozen tiles have been tagged so badly that they have to be replaced. So there's a thousand bucks gone. We couldn't possibly have had anything better to spend it on, right? Thanks, assholes. I hope your mom's real proud of your awesome handwriting.

It turns out that when doing hiphop shows, it's cheaper to pay someone to do nothing else but stand in the bathroom all night than to pay for the repairs afterward.

The other day I was complaining about the fact that the only reason we have a light under one of the skull vodka bottles is that Shawn cannibalized a light out of a liquor display from some previous promotion that he hadn't yet thrown away. Even though (I think) Chris had asked our distributor to send us something weeks ago. Surely they have a lighted base for these, right? I mean, come on, you're launching a new product, in a fancy bottle, and you don't ship displays to your first batch of retailers?

Then it was pointed out to me that I was standing there assuming competence at every step on a chain spanning at least three companies.

Never lose that optimism, kids. Don't die inside.

Dear Party People, I have two items of note to bring to your attention:

1. Tonight is Hubba Hubba Revue's "Girl Gang" exposé, and the kids seem very excited about their little show this time. There has been "significant chatter", as they say in the intelligence community.

2. Tomorrow is Bootie, but beyond that, tomorrow is DNA Lounge's Twenty-Third Birthday! Yes indeed, this venerable venue first opened under the name "DNA Lounge" on November 22, 1985. Come raise a glass, won't you?