Throughout the month of December, MilkBoy Acoustic will be adorned with the photography of UsedWigs shutterbug, Tiffany “Fly Me to the” Yoon and artwork by UsedWigs poddy mouth, Todd “Me” Marrone. Join us for the First Friday reception and enjoy the smooth strumming of UsedWigs maestro, Russ “Jawbone” Starke and participate in a roving podcast conducted by UsedWigs mastermind, Jeffrey “Jeff” Lyons.

Dammit. Now I have to walk all the way back to the car. I will never pay full price for the Word of The Lord. Please place your fat bearded hipsters in the middle. I don’t like the way this cornball is looking at my wife. There’s gonna be trouble. The kids at this amusement [...]

Camper Von Bikethoven! Give it three weeks until you see a some dumb hipster trying to pull this off. Enjoy some more camper bike photos and paintings, then build your own why don’t cha. via @iamjolly Speaking of… It’s pretty easy to tell the difference between those who bike to work for health reasons …

Finally Finished My Dog Costume. I think it came out well.

Bad day? This should give you a glimmer of hope. Baby elephants make everything better. “These extraordinary images show the trust and understanding developed between children and orphaned elephants calves rescued from a forest.”

Attention aging music nerds, Google Books has digitized all the SPIN magazines since 1985. Check it out, it’s a hoot to view the ads from the 80s and early 90s and reminisce about the excitement you felt when one of your bands like Husker Du, Circle Jerks, Hoodoo Gurus or Tommy Keene got some ink in this major music publication. While I give SPIN good marks for its cover selections and subject matter in the early days (and especially for being a good alternative to Rolling Stone), the mag did publish a few of doozies.

Photos by Tiffany Yoon and Kevin Ginsberg. Click thumbnails below. [flickr-gallery mode="photoset" photoset="72157623550289705"]

I Hate Stoners But I Love Stoner Dog

If you love the beach with no humans on it, you’ll probably dig some awe-inspiring photos of the shore sans people. This calendar is full of them, shot by photo ace Pat McCarthy. “Pat’s primary focus is capturing the beauty of the Jersey Shore from the Atlantic coast to the shores of the Delaware Bay.”

Enjoy these wonderful “found” photos from the John Maloof Collection: “This was created in dedication to the photographer Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s – 1970s. Vivian’s work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she lived for 50 years but was originally a native to France. Her discovered work includes [...]