Doesn't it just figure that a lot of cities would declare a Guided By Voices Day? Goddammit. Pound-for-pound, this band has put out more crap than The Fall.
BART spends $150,000 annually to combat the noise of rock doves, better known to city dwellers as a rat with wings. The current approach, apparent at the 16th Street Station and others, is to blast them with the sounds of predators. The name of their spokesman, Linton Johnson, caught my eye. Why not play some dub instead?
I wonder how much BART spends on ridding the 16th Street Station of dirty needles and used crack vials.
According an open letter to Bill Ford from the Rainforest Action Network, published as a full-page advert. in today's New York Times,
Since the oil crisis of the 1970s, the EPA has ranked Ford last in overall fuel efficiency for 20 out of the last 30 years, and Ford’s fleet today gets fewer miles per gallon on average than the Model-T did 80 years ago.