This collaboration between Millennial hero Skrillex and Boomer representatives The Other Guys From The Doors is almost certainly what I’m going to point to should I ever need to make a definitive case that both of those generations are equally annoying. [Via]

Attention wine drinkers: Scroll down here for a handy chart correlating alcohol content and blood alcohol concentration. [Via]

Oh my god this so good! It’s basically new De La Soul, as “First Serve” is the name chosen by Posdnuos and Trugoy the Dove, two-thirds of the the storied Long Island rap trio, for their new project with French production duo 2+4. Apparently, they’re making a concept album (and maybe a movie?) for which they’ve adopted alter egos (Posdnuos is “Jacob ‘Pop Life’ Barrow,” Trugoy is “Deen Whittier”), that tells the story of a pair of goofy Queens teenagers hoping to make it in rap. Conceptually and musically, First Serve harkens back to De La’s old pal Prince Paul’s super-awesome, not-nearly-well-enough-known 1999 rap opera, A Prince Among Thieves. They made a video — sort of a one-act play with a cool, cartoon backdrop that gives a good idea about the overall tone and direction. That embed looks nicer than the Soundcloud band. But the music is better than the skit, so I wanted to put that up top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds6dbdOjWV8

Also pretty excellent, right? This is all very exciting.

“The FDA is now reporting that… the shortage is easing in some parts of the country. Pharmaceutical company Shire says there is ‘adequate’ availability of the brand-name version of Adderall, but generic versions remain in short supply. Drug manufacturer Mallinckrodt says it’s name-brand ADHD drug, Methylin, ‘will be increasingly available as supply recovery continues.’ This affects both the immediate- and extended-release versions of Methylin. But other ADHD drugs will remain in short supply for the first part of 2012.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPHbbvQEA1E

“Lou Reed seems like there’s some football hidden in him. His name, Lou Reed, sounds like the name of a football coach — you can imagine a trophy or a plaque named after him. And as he’s aged, the weather-beaten sports coach inside has slowly revealed itself. His face reflects a combination of Vince Lombardi’s knowing gaze and Larry Brown’s mirthless grimace.”
 — Over at the Classical, Devin Mcintyre writes a nice post about how the songs on the Velvet Underground’s first album predicted the coming of this year’s Jesus-loving sports phenom Tim Tebow — way back in 1967. It’s the type of argument I am always ready to be convinced of. But Mcintyre needn’t rely on the sound of Lou Reed’s name, or his resemblance to Vince Lombardi as evidence of his football credentials. One of Reed’s best solo songs, the title track to his Coney Island Baby album, (which came out in 1975 — a spooky thirteen years before Tebow was born!) has a long and gorgeous preamble about Reed’s days as a high-school football player. He was little too lightweight to play linebacker, apparently, so he ended up playin’ right end. (There’s a great picture of Lou in his old football jersey that was included in the artwork to, I think, The Between Thought and Expression box set. But is unfortunately, and surprisingly, not to found on the internet. By me, at least.)

Remember 2011? It’s hard to recall just how much more optimistic we were in those times. Everything seemed so suffused with possibility and promise. And the music… there just seemed to be so much going on. In case you’ve forgotten that era, here’s your chance to take a look back at the tunes of those dimly-remembered days.

Horror in Britain, where a new generation is so enraptured by its digital playthings that it does not even know how to use a bottle properly. Next they’ll be using knives to cut food. Oh, what a world.

It sounds outlandish, doesn’t it, that, forty-some years after we stopped seizing obscene books, the government would get back into the censorship game all over again — and in a big way. But it’s already happened: as you’ll surely remember with horror, the Department of Homeland Security seized some websites over claims of copyright infringement — and then held them in limbo for a year, stonewalling with the legal system. That went just so well: we’re sure that the U.S. government is oh-so-prepared to start seizing websites on a mass scale.

We really encourage you to make some noise today. Like much of the rest of the web, we’re totally vulnerable. (Hech, so are you and your Tumblr.) For more reading on SOPA/PIPA, here’s this great analysis and here’s a PDF of the group protest letter by law professors sent back in July.

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Jon Methven is the author of This Is Your Captain Speaking, due out in 2012 by Simon & Schuster. He can be reached here, or follow him on Twitter @jonmethven.

Would you drink wine made with meteorites? Assuming someone else is buying, I can tell you that my answer is a resounding sure, why the hell not.