So I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that I’m being published in a new book called The Very Best Weblog Writing Ever. It features submissions by me and a bunch of other people I’ve never met, but I’m pretty sure that’s how the internet works anyway, so that’s not really a negative at all.

But now for the bad news: you’re gonna have to part with fifteen of your hard earned dollars to buy one. This is compulsory, and yeah, that makes me feel kind of bad, but fifteen bucks isn’t really that bad for a book you will cherish forever, something that will actually exist and sit on your bookshelf, something that you’ll have to pack up in a cardboard box every time you move unlike this ephemeral, web-based clusterfuck of apathy and HTML tags. I guess what I’m saying is they’re taking pre-orders so click the picture and buy the book alredy.

As you may be aware, today is 6/06/06, known to some as the National Day of Slayer, and better known to many, many more people than that as A Day of Really Nice Early-June Weather.

Some people are a little nervous about 6/06/06. Who wouldn’t be? To the uninformed, Slayer can be a little threatening. With song titles like “Altar of Sacrifice” and “Mandatory Suicide” it’s easy to be a little put off, but trust me: once you get past the Wall of Blood and Auschwitz references, the Slayer boys are nice as pie. Forget what you thought you knew about the kings of thrash and take a look at how they’re spending the most unholy of days.

6/06/06, 7:30 a.m.
THE UPS STORE

The boys got an early start on their special day at their local UPS store, participating in an ancient ritual: mailing care packages to their college-bound children. Devil’s food cake, anyone?

6/06/06, 11:15 a.m.
WALGREENS

Does Walgreens sell blood? Sorry, guys! They might be S.O.L on that front, but luckily for Tom Araya, they DO fill Lipitor prescriptions. With a metal lifestyle like his, that cholesterol isn’t gonna regulate itself! Speaking of which, anybody getting hungry?

6/06/06, 12:30 p.m.
TACO BELL

Forget “South of Heaven” – these guys are going South of the Border!!! Yum!

6/06/06, 2:15 p.m.
PETTING ZOO

I don’t really know what to say about this. It’s their day, alright? They can do whatever they want.

6/06/06, 4:30 p.m.
TIME TO CHILL

After an action-packed day, everyone deserves a little R&R. That means it’s time to kick back in Jeff Hanneman‘s basement home theater and watch the band’s favorite movie. Let’s give ’em a little privacy, shall we? As pioneers of thrash and all-around nice guys, I’d say they’ve earned it. Wouldn’t you?

Oh – and this happened too.

Remember when you figured out that Kraftwerk’s “Metropolis” is the exact same speed as Prince’s “Little Red Corvette?” Too late – some kid in Sweden already did that like two years ago. Screw a bunch of “mashups” anyway – it’s time to take it to the next level. While you were sitting in a swivel chair failing miserably at mixing Lil Jon with R.E.M., some dude named Matthew at Pottymouth.org was sitting in an even darker room than you were. He sat there for a long time staring at the wall for hours, thinking about how mashups are stupid. He made a snack. All of the sudden the wall-mounted CD rack right above him broke and all of his Pixies CDs fell on his head. Then it hit him. No – not “Caribou.” The future of mashups. The trail has been blazed. Thanks, Matt.

Matthew’s Celebrity Pixies Tribute (via metafilter)

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