Pal of SaM Luke Worley has these for sale in his new Store.

I think we all benefit when there is more octopus-with-nunchaku in our lives.

$50, on sale here.

In celebration of LOST’s final season and as a project of fan appreciation, 16 top designers and artists, who are also fans of the show, were commissioned to create artwork celebrating one of the series’ most memorable, and unforgettable, “water cooler” moments. This ultimate “fan art” was then turned into labor intensive, hand-pulled screen prints, limited to an edition of just 300, with less than 200 available to the public through our websites.

I really enjoyed Accelerate. This video (via Stereogum) is footage from a 5-night stand in Dublin from last year. Live album due out October 10th.

Living Well Is The Best Revenge

Via Jalopnik, is this really cool story about how John Schnatter got the ‘71 Camaro back that the then-teenager sold in 1983 to keep the family tavern open.

With the $2,800 he received for the Camaro he was able to save the family business and launch Papa John’s, a business that now numbers at more than 3,000 pizzerias in 26 countries with a market value of three-quarters of a billion dollars. He had a lot, but Papa John still missed that Camaro. So Schnatter started looking for it.

“For 26 years I wanted the car back,” said Schnatter. “[A friend] looked for that car for most of the 1990s and it surprised me when we couldn’t find it.” They even hired an ex-FBI agent to search for the car, turning up nothing.

So word got out to the Jalopnik readers and the story of the kid who sold a ‘71 Camaro but couldn’t bear to watch it drive away sounded very familiar to someone had a similar story about buying a car. Some phone calls, some sleuthing, and then they found the car.

Though he’s sad to part with it, Jeff Robinson made out okay.

“Jeff loved the car and he knows I’m going to take car of it and it’ll take a special place in the hearts of the people at Papa John’s,” said John, adding “he was kind enough to sell it for $250,000.”

Michelle has been accumulating baby back ribs from our Polyface Farm orders all summer. Our original plan was to bring them to someone’s house who has a smoker but that didn’t happen so I had to learn how to do it my own damn self.

I based the rub on what I had in the spice cabinet and Mark Bittman’s, How to Cook Everything. This was my first attempt at cooking ribs so I didn’t want to mess things up with an experimental rub. I used salt, paprika, chile powder, cumin, and black pepper. Pretty basic stuff. Since I don’t have a smoker and I didn’t want to burn 4 hours of propane, the plan was to oven roast them and then finish them on the grill. I let the rub sit on the meat at room temperature for about an hour.

I was using a recipe that called for 3 hours in the oven at 275. Since I had 2 pans of ribs and a very small oven (creating a high rack-low rack situation) I swapped the pans at the 90 minute mark and turned the heat down to 250 because I was worried that I was overcooking them. I’m sure that was just silliness on my part and I don’t know that it made much of a difference. I pulled the ribs from the oven at the 3-hour mark (to make room for a chicken that we were also roasting) and I transferred them to the grill. I got the grill to hang out around 275-degrees and I kept all of the ribs away from the direct heat. They probably spent another 30 minutes on the grill. (All times are approximate due to Legend Lager consumption)

Mary put a sauce together based on Sauer’s regular BBQ sauce with mustard and Worcestershire and some ketchup that I brushed on at the last minute. I learned the trick is to let the sauce on get tacky before you try to flip the ribs, otherwise it all just runs off into the burners.

All in all, I’d say it was a successful first attempt at rib cooking. Next time I’m going to get spicier with the rub and I’m going to let it sit on meat for another hour before I start the oven roasting. The bones came right out but the meat wasn’t as falling-off-the-bone as I wanted to see it. There is room to improve and I am looking forward to getting another crack at it.

This is the best chance for the Wii to make it into my video game rotation since I never got around to buying Mario Kart. No firm US release date yet, but I’m going to be keeping a close eye out for it.

I do love a Mario game. New Super Mario for the DS is one of my all-time faves.

[ via kottke]

I approve, wildly.

[via Hugger Industries]

Even without all of the dense instrumentation there is a wealth of sound in these songs. It’s amazing if you stop to think about it.

[via boingboing]

I acknowledge that I am, to the core, a complete Jack White fanboy. That said, I think this is a great example of how he shreds the blues.

It’s from “It Might Get Loud” which I need to see. Not want. Need.

And if you’re into it you can buy the 7″ of the above from Third Man Records.

[via Stereogum]

Like the excellent Simpsons figures, these Futurama jams are blind-boxed and stubby.

I’m a bigger Simpsons fan that Futurama fan but it’s cool to see these getting made. Someone will be stoked.