This Looks Fantastic: Patton Oswalt in “Big Fan”… “The life of a parking garage attendant is turned upside down after an altercation with his favorite player on the New York Giants.” More Here> (via @tedleo)

Not The Stupid TV Show: 10 Best Prison Breaks

Paste Saved by Readers: Sean Blanda reports, “Paste’s readers contributed more money than Purdy expected. By the end of June, 9,000 readers had donated over $240,000, putting the average donation at $26.67, more than the subscription rate of many magazines.” Read More>

We also discussed the Paste situation on our latest podcast.

Hollywood’s Dearth of Ideas Continues: Deja View: My Favorite Movie (Star Trek vs. Star Wars) (via Bryan)

Where’s My Yards Brawler! Where’s My Resurrection Ale! Find bars serving your favorite beers in Philly! (via @lotoole3)

Exclusive Dave Hill Photos! Another weekend without Kate and his 8 kids?! What’s Dave up to?

Hmmm, This Thing Might Just Take Off Now: Gmail no longer in Beta.

Geeking Out Your iPhone Camera: Factron iPhone Case Features Interchangeable Lenses

They Can’t Be All That Bad: North Korea’s first TV advertisement for beer

Cool PEN Camera Ad: “This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! ” (via neatorama)

Useless, But Fun: 7 Larger Than Life Giant Objects

No Argument Here: The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time

This Makes Me Very Very Happy: Pegboy & Face to Face – 2009 Tour Dates

After the ‘Hangover’: What Will Zach Galifianakis Do Next? I don’t know, make a shitload of money? (well deserved)

10 Things Gas Stations Won’t Tell You: Don’t use a debit card, don’t apply for a gas card and more gas filling dos and don’ts.

Attn: Hippies and Gentle Hipsters! XPoNential Music Festival looks pretty good, if you got rid of those Bacon Brother clowns: “Buy your tickets now and save. Lineup includes The Bacon Brothers, Aimee Mann, Peter Bjorn & John, Robert Cray, They Might Be Giants, Shemekia Copeland, Guster, Los Straitjackets, Steve Forbert and the Windfall Prophets, and many more”

Free Download: We Were Promised Jetpacks – “Quiet Little Voices” (MP3 via BrooklynVegan)

In an e-mail, Merge founder Mac McCaughan calls Touch and Go “the most straight-up and ass-busting-for-music-they-love people we know.”

“Corey Rusk is the most meticulous, cautious, thoughtful business person I know,” he said, “which is what makes this whole thing so unbelievable and such a bad portent for the rest of the independent music business — if a company that did everything the right way can’t survive in this environment (and the environment existed before the current worldwide financial disaster — the Bush economic legacy only piled on), then who can?” More from The L.A. Times.

Hopefully they will rebound. In the meantime, enjoy this great video about the history of the label and founder Corey Rusk, a real good guy.

And here’s the almighty Pegboy — older and fatter, but still rocking and funny as hell –being interviewed during Touch & Go’s 25th Anniversary Show: