DJ Matt+Gabe’s Jewish Deli, aka Matt Merkin, is spinning tonight in Oakland at downtown hangout Ruby Room. Considering this kid sports a borderline unhealthy Prince obsession & a fancy/comprehensive record collection, it’s pretty much guaranteed this will be a good time.

Hey, remember this guy? Turns out he’s been working on some pretty great poetry in his spare time… You can see for yourself right here, exclusively from the mind & pen of Omeed Boghraty.

While Miss Westwood might have lamentably fallen out of touch with Malcom McLaren, Villa Cola have created two and a half minutes of such auditory delight that you’d have to be deaf to resist coming back for more.

Gentrification makes me skeptical.

Here are a few poems from Erik Stinson’s latest collection called “And then I Disappeared Again.” The re-release party is coming up: 3/3/2011, 280 Cafe and Lounge, Bushwick, NYC. Check it.

A month of getting turned down by progressively shittier jobs is bad for your ego. You begin to embrace the fact, internalize it even. “I’m gonna live on ketchup and shitty beer,” you tell yourself while copy-pasting the same typo-filled cover letter into another email. Cut that shit out…

I know that The Office had a two part x-mas special and it was actually kind of funny–but you need to get out more often. Yeah, Oakland is scary, but so is getting old.

I had the craziest dream last night that I was Mila Kunis with a giant black swan tattoo on my back,
eating out Natalie Portman for what seemed like eternity. If only I were so lucky.

PONYLOCO FRIDAY
NOV. 19th
2523 MLK jr. way Oakland
LOCOS Only

$3 to keep the crackheads away.
FREE if you use ’serious stache’ as the password.

In Which I Try and Make Sense of My Baseball Team Owning My Soccer Team