Seth Colter Walls: Do you have your stream-capture program of choice fired up and set to tap into Firefox for the new Erykah Badu track release? Update: Finally up!
Choire Sicha: Hello, Wire Tap Studio.
Seth: Pfft.
Choire: That shit WORKS, dog.
Seth: Audio Hijack all the way.
Choire: Sigh. Is she tardy? Is it 3:33p.m. yet? Or is she in another time zone? Seth, I have a question. Is there a Straight White Man Time? Is it like... the real time?
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I wasn't sure any political ad could top James Perry of New Orleans' recent salvo, but here's a radio spot for Illinois State Senator Rickey "Hollywood" Hendon, who is running in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor. I would vote for him based on this ad alone. [Via]

Everyone will see what they want to see in President Obama's Q&A with the House Republican conference today-Democrats will be emboldened by the President's sometimes aggressive tone, Republicans will praise the sharp questions from their members, C-SPAN will be thrilled that people are paying attention to C-SPAN, etc.-but I think this was the part I enjoyed most. READ MORE

Three weeks ago, a bear entered the town of Przemysl, Poland, and approached a local school. She was tranquilized by local authorities, who returned her into the forest on the theory that, hey, she certainly wouldn't do that again. Naturally, she did, heading to the nearby town of Chorzow. Guess what? "[T]his time, efforts to tranquilize her proved decidedly unsuccessful. Despite apparently succumbing to a first injection, the bear suddenly awoke when authorities approached. A chase ensued, with a second ranger having to come to the aid of his companion." Everyone survived, the bear is headed to a zoo, and the rest of us get a photogallery out of it. Everybody wins!

IMPORTANT ALERT. Famous upcoming 3:33 p.m. Erykah Badu leak, as promised by her Twitter, is merely a single bonus track. (We'll happily take it, of course.)

In a fine example of what Ann Powers defined as "violator art" in a 1999 Village Voice article-one which is now being taught as a four-credit humanities course at Mt. Holyoke!-50 Cent's G-Unit henchman Tony Yayo has been making some great, awful rap music lately. READ MORE

Video mash-ups aren't usually my thing, but this "Sopranos"/Wild Things overlay somehow does the trick. [Via]

There's already a Shake Shack iPhone app that lets you look at the burger joint's line via live camera, so you know before you go over there just how much bitching on Twitter you will do while waiting for a sorta decent burger in Madison Square Park. Now there is an app, we have been notified, called Shakedown (that is an iTunes store link! This is their website) that will sync with FourSquare (the fun/ridiculous/scary app that tells your "friends" where "you are") so as to ID your friends already in line so that you can therefore jump in and butt ahead of plebes who are not your "friends"? (Or, I suppose, to be ID'd so people can line-jump forward to stand with you and make awkward talk about your mutual "friends.") And will also let you report line length? This is so extraordinarily niche and wonderful and silly that I can hardly stand it. It's basically like someone created an app for a slightly alternate version of me (when I am back on eating burgers again and forget that they are made of hooves and feces, sorry-and also when I actually have friends). I'm concerned about where all of this is going but/and also I really hate waiting in lines.

I kind of feel like the last really great movie Oliver Stone had a hand in was Salvador, and the odds are that I'm not going to see Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, but I have to give it to him: This is a pretty kickass trailer. Or at least the parts without Shia LaBoeuf in it.

I have had some issues with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) in the past, but holy cow is he ever full of sense right here. When he says that all the arguments against trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed on American soil make us look "frightened and scared" to the rest of the world he is absolutely correct. Unfortunately, all the people who are making those arguments are the same people who made a big point of bellowing about how they didn't care what the rest of the world thought about us during the whole Bush presidency. I can't imagine that they give a shit now that we look like GIANT FUCKING PUSSIES WHO CANNOT CROSS THE STREET WITHOUT WETTING OUR PANTS. Which, you know, we are.

Ladies, I bring you some unfortunate news. I know all you want to do is birth that baby you think is going to complete you and make your life full of purpose, but the thing you need to know is that your ovaries are decaying even more rapidly than previously suspected. Are you 30 or over? Uh oh. A new study shows that most of your eggs are already gone, and the ones that are left aren't really that good. You will probably NEVER HAVE THAT BABY. There, there. No, shhh, I know. Chin up, sweetie, it's okay. I'm sure that career you've been busy building will more than compensate for the overwhelming feeling of emptiness and lack of meaning that failing to achieve the most important goal of womanhood usually results in. Maybe you should just shift your focus to trying to get married. I mean, sometimes that does still happen to a woman over 30, right? But you should probably buy lots of cosmetics for that extra edge, just in case.