If babies are funny and wigs are funny, why wouldn’t babies wearing wigs be double-funny? That was the question Santa Barbara’s Graham Farrar, Matt Meyer, and Peter Kyriacou found themselves pondering a couple years ago when the trio was brainstorming possible inventions.
As we expected, the City of Santa Barbara did not approve of the News-Press‘ brand new green fence, which was fully erected last Friday. In a letter to the newspaper on Monday afternoon, City Hall said, essentially, “Take it down or be fined.”
What was reported to 911 as an ambush on Sunday night atop the Santa Ynez Mountains turned out to be just another case of a guy shooting himself in the hand and being too embarrassed to tell the truth.
Clearly confused about what sort of wall that everyone on the planet is calling for, the N-P‘s top brass decide to erect a fence further separating the newspaper from its increasingly alienated audience. We wanted a wall between the newsroom and the editorials/advertisers, silly rabbits, not between the paper and the public!
Santa Barbara wouldn’t know it from the sunshine and 80 degree weather we’ve been enjoying lately, but the season known elsewhere as “winter” is already descending upon the rest of the northern hemisphere. Good thing we’ve got Warren Miller to remind us…
What began as a goofy Thanksgiving song has exploded into a worldwide phenomenon. Spencer the Gardener‘s music video for their new holiday tune “The Gobble Song” amassed more than 312,000 views on YouTube over the Thanksgiving weekend, making the video one of the popular website’s most watched clips ever.
BusinessWeek gets in on the News-Press mess; Editor & Publisher produces another report; Travis takes aim at Indy columnists; Barry Capello gets hired to scare away the Teamsters lawyer; and we wait for an NLRB hearing.
We missed the live show by this Swedish songwriter at Rocks on November 11, but we like the dancepop on this EP release.
The YouTube premiere of Spencer the Gardener’s new music video for “The Gobble Song,” the first Thanksgiving tune of all time! See it here first!
The Pixies’ frontman delivers one of his best shows ever at the House of Blues, and Independent.com is there to record the action.
