Tuesday Music Pick
What is it about listening to The Pretenders album Learning to Crawl (1984) that makes me feel like all is right with the world? Well, let's see, the first two tracks KILL --> Middle of the Road and Back on the Chain Gang. Not to mention Thin Line Between Love and Hate and 2

Tuesday Music Pick
As you might have noticed TMP has been on hiatus, but as for today I'm happy to say - TMP is back! Now, onto the pick of the day.Let's say you were to hypothetically take Beck and add some serious Spanish flare, what you might get is the magnificent Matias Aguyo. Aguyo's new album Ay Ay Ay is such fun to listen to that I was ready to abandon all my moody indie music for the day! Favorite tracks on the album: Juanita and Koro Koro.Also I found a little goodie from an older album of his that you can download free right her

move over morris
My cat Monty is f*cking awesome. Margot bought me a sweet Kodak digital camera (shout out to my rochester peeps!) for my birthday & monty has been my number one subject.Seriously. How is he NOT the poster cat for IAMS?!

Toxic Time Bomb
Dear Carroll Gardens Cobble Hill Courier,A big thank you to your page layout person. Your latest front page turned out perfect.Sincerely,A pleased resident

Gender Dissa-whaaat?
As most of you know, I teach English comp classes at a community college in Brooklyn. Every week I try to incorporate at least one rouge article into our normal reading agenda, especially since we're knee-deep in our unit on gender. Today the article I chose was "Girl Crazy: Women who Suffer from Gender Disappointment" from Oct. 9th's Elle. The only version I could find left online was the cached version, as it l