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.

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.

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

Start by living somewhere else. Becoming either dissatisfied or overly ambitious. Read a lot of things about New York City on the Internet. One day, as your friends are splitting up large bags of cocaine into smaller bags, decide it’s time to move. You’ve slept with everyone you wanted to sleep with in this town anyway.

“My Life,” a new mural by local street artist, Eddie Colla, is set to be unveiled this coming Thursday, November 11th at Ma’velous Coffee & Wine Bar in San Francisco. The debut reception is set to run from 6pm-10pm. Admission will be free and open to the public.