SOME SERIOUS HONOR: Look at that bear! This is what showed up in the mail this morning. From the good people of Always With Honor. And you know, before the day gets the best of me, and I forget, I just had to show you that bear. We dig, hard. So good!

You need one of these: They are going fast, so get with it.

Great, great stuff, AWH!

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THE WINTERS MONTHS ARE CREEPING UP: We’re halfway through Novem-brrrr, already. December is knocking at the door. Get with it and get frostbitten with our newest color installment from Field Notes: “Just Below Zero.”

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I’M IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS, AND MAKE THINGS: Compatriot snowboards, people. I did a couple graphics. I did the “shotgun” graphic and the “elk.” Here they are. Some proof, people.

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ONE OF THE GREATEST MINNEAPOLIS BANDS, EVER: Craig Finn lets some slip about the upcoming Lifter Puller reissue stuff.

Note the Jason Miller mention. Doing their book? Hell yes, man!

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ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE “DROP WHAT YOU ARE DOING” SORTS OF LINKS: Well, well, well. New York City’s Billy Fowks knows how to blow a guy’s mind. He did just that with this link: The incredible shit going down at the Buckingham Studio in Los Angeles. great stuff.

Stuff like this and this. Get in there and get cut on something.

Go backstage with them, now.

Man. Another one of those links that gets you thinking shit along the lines of, “What if i was just to throw my machine out the window and quit all this shit, and just start making shit in my garage?” Dangerous bytes, people, so heed this warning.

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SOMETHING WE TWEETED: An incredible U.S. Forest rangers photo collection over at ACL.

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WHAT, NEXT WEEK?: The Road.

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ON THE PLAYER:

01. Lifter Puller - Fiestas + Fiascos
02. The Evening Rig - Is Doin’ Things
03. Replacements - All Shook Down
04. Chooglin’ - Nice Place, Nice Party, Nice Folks