Spend your hard-earned pesos

It's not often I endorse products. Not after the Roman's Polka-Dancing Shoes debacle of 1999. But I encourage you to check this out: Hip Hop Hoodios has released an EP called "Viva La Guantanamera" - if you plunk down your dough for a download (it's a digital only EP), they'll donate part of the proceeds to Amnesty International's Guantanamo Bay prisoners fund.

You can find this EP available for download at iTunes (boo!), eMusic (yay!), and Rhapsody (huh?). You can also buy it through something called Calabash Music (what the...?)

DO IT!

Making the most of summer vacay

A while back I thought I would put in for three days of vacation in early August. Then I forgot all about it until last week. So I had to find something to do. I spent last weekend visiting my family and my baby niece, who is a little bit bigger and a lot more animated then when I last saw her. I also went down to New York to hang out on Monday and Tuesday of this week. At the Upright Citizens Brigade theater on Monday night, there was a free late stand-up show. The headliner: Demetri Martin, who is great. It was a treat to see him, even if he was just trying out new material at a free late night show, and not clad all in white and playing the guitar.