Thy name might be OmniFocus.

Van Ness Sifting Enclosed Cat Panâ„¢ (CP66)

Since taking over the duties of cleaning the cat leavings in our apartment (damn you toxoplasmosis!), I have developed a love/hate relationship with this device. On one hand, it makes complete sense and leaves to scoop out of the equation. There are two “bottoms” that fit nicely together with a sifting tray that lets you seperate the solids from the litter with relative ease. On the other hand, when transferring the sifted “business” from the tray to a normal sized grocery bag, there is a great chance you are going to have bits and bobs drop out of the arse end of the device as the majority of the “duty” slides into the garbage. So, a sweep-up is a must. Not a big deal, because if you have multiple cats you are going to be sweeping litter and tumble-weed size clumbs of fur anyway in the region anyway, but I would probably sleep better knowing the disposal of waste was a little less shitty.

Kanye West used his Centurion American Express card to purchase $186 worth of magazines at the Blowers Street Paperchase.

As much as people bitch about the price of gas, do you realize people are paying $1.79 for 2 oz of guacamole?

Fission Manipulates Audio Tracks of All Stripes | TidBITS

I Want To Be A Critic. What Now? | Onion AV Club

I always dug the Windom immensely when she played it on the show, and I finally have in my hot buttered hands the new record, called Gold Wave.

Don’t Wanna Be Like That (Come On, Come On – Do The Simulation With Me) by Helen Spitzer | cleverLazy

Some Hot Recorders for Those Cool Podcasts | NY Times

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Are They F*cking? – Norm MacDonald on the Daily Show | onegoodmove

Forgot to mention it, but Shane and Tom’s Squeezebox actually played a couple Windom Earle covers at the end of their show last week on the accordion.

Plus Windom Earle was featured in a Halifax Band Family Tree that was in the Dalhousie Gazette. It will let you know when it is online/scanned.

Eye Weekly’s Disc-overy of the Week:

WINDOM EARLE

Gold Wave (Boost Ventilator) * * * * The thing about being from the east coast is that you can be pretty sure the rest of the country will ignore you until forced not to. Mostly unknown due to the gaping cultural void between Fredericton and Quebec City, Windom Earle has been an instrumental synth-rock staple in Halifax for four albums now. A home-recording project for man-about-the-North-End Stephan MacLeod, Gold Wave is the band’s most delirious outing yet. Opening with an oddly garage-rocky version of “Get On Into It,” (which appeared on a MacLeod-curated compiIation last year), they turn in the highly original “Forked Wrist Waltz” before getting all squishy and delicious with “Guitorgan.” Not only worth seeking out; worth writing the band to beg them to tour this way (www.windomearle.com). – HS

What News Corp doesn’t want you to know about MySpace: Condensed edition | Valleywag

Waking teens from their deep REM sleep before 7 a.m. — which during late fall and winter is well before the rooster crows — is much like approaching a lion gnawing on an antelope carcass.

Want to Improve Education? Let Kids Sleep | The Wall Street Journal

Let’s Go To Prison

Yeah, pretty shitty trailer, but as long as his sense of humour is actually intact in the film (like The Pitty Card…unlike Run Ronny Run) maybe it will be worth seeing.

Speaking of movies, anyone see a trailer for Mike Judge‘s Idiocracy? There’s an interesting interview/profile in Esquire.

Windom Earle made the CBC Radio 3 podcast…thanks to Steve for pointing it out. I usually let the episodes pile up and plough through them when I get a chance. I was starting to think Joel Plaskett would have to retire before another Haligonian got a spin, but they managed to play both in the same show.

They actually played the original version of “Get On Into It” from the compilation. I mailed them Goldwave, so I am not sure what is up with that. A guy named Keith that rooms with Vince Lavers (former Windom Earle band member) wrote in and then rubbed Vince’s “corporate whoring” in with his request.

Also, nice to see Stephan’s tennis shot is front and centre on the page.

I get thrown-up against a wall in this movie. The soundtrack also contains some Windom Earle.

There are also some myspace profiles you might want to check out.

Free Albums Galore has reviewed the Windom Earle archives.