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Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Neil Young performs a haunting cover of the Fresh Prince theme song and, just like that, my life is complete.

Also: A rift in the spacetime continuum.

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Who knew Jimmy Fallon could do such an impressive Neil Young impression? Not me. No sir, not me.

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Jobriath - “Take Me I’m Yours”

I am sort of growing obsessed with the parallels between 1970’s manufactured, openly gay glam pop star Jobriath and currently manufactured, openly gay glam pop star Adam Lambert. (Jobriath on Wikipedia, Adam Lambert on Wikipedia.)

It’s all so…”we’ve been down this road before.” And I’m interested to see how it plays out 40 - rather than 4 - years after the Stonewall riots.

I cannot take credit for recognizing this connection - Dave pointed it out to me on Facebook today during a thread where I declared Lambert’s AMA performance to be something akin to Bob Fosse and David Bowie having a kid that liked Britney Spears too much.

Anyway, listen to the song. It rules. And I really, really, really, really would love it if Adam Lambert would cover it. Pretty please, baby?

To return to logos, one great irony of the North Dakota Highway Patrol is that their emblem features the symbol of Red Tomahawk, “a Teton Dakotah (Sioux) Indian who lived on his land near the Cannonball River on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation near Mandan, North Dakota.” The Highway Patrol is largely not allowed to police Standing Rock. »

Iconography and ideology, yo.

"Republicans here are acting like desperate undergraduates trying to meet a page requirement for an essay about the Sociology of the Bicycle: MARGINS: 3.5"; FONT: 25pt; SPACING: 2.999. GRADE: C-" »

Take a shitload of salt—rocksalt, you dumb motherfucker, none of that fine-grained crap here—and toss it around the bottom of the pan. When the pan is hot as all fuck—it should scorch the shit out of your finger if you're stupid enough to touch it—put the fucking steak on there. You can crack some pepper on the top of the steak as the bottom is searing, but don't even talk to me about garlic or onion powder or COMPOUND FUCKING BUTTER, asshole. This is steak, all you fucking need is salt and pepper. »

Cooking week at The Awl keeps getting better and better.

Hey, did you know that The Sweet is playing tonight at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino in Milwaukee? Well, they are. (Tickets are $20, no free drinks, no roller girls)

However, my glam band - EKKO GALAXIE & THE RINGS OF SATURN - is playing at Club Garibaldi. (We cover Sweet better than Sweet these days, entry is $8 with a canned food item, gets you a free beer, and there will very much be roller girls)

The decision is sort of a no brainer, no?

But - bring it on regardless: EKKO VS. SWEET 2009. LAST GLAM BAND STANDING IN 5” STILETTOS WINS.

Halibut Taco »

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