* There’s stuff up on 7-Inch Slam for the first time since May of last year. Hone and I will be running the show and bringing things up to speed.

* My Top Ten of 2007 is submitted to Terminal-Boredom and when that is posted I’ll throw some additional items on as well over here at Big Ole Schleep. Hints are probably not necessary. By trimming down the list I kept on the heavy hitters you might expect, along with live stuff that resonated more than certain records did this year.

* The London Review of Books has a well-researched article by Mark Greif on the Velvet Underground from May 2007 up on their site that has kept me entertained this morning. Fanboys/girls should give it a look.

* I’ll be appearing in a show on February 16th with my Fun-a-Day-in-PGH project for January 2008. My project was to try and obtain a new record for every day of the month, listen to it, and write about it.  Not much to discuss… I’m building a multimedia presentation and running it at the art show like a dork, and you can hear about the records I purchased/traded/found while I was busy not writing on this blog. I’ve got about a week to go before it happens and I’m trying to get everything polished and ready to toss into a Powerpoint as quickly and painlessly as possible. I’m kind of excited since I can’t really draw and I’ve never been in an art show. I thought tour was going to throw me off, but I’ve morphed any problems into ignorable pant-leg tuggings that I couldn’t care less about at this point.

* I’m doing a very special Pittsburgh interview today after I get home from work. You might know what I’m talking about already, but I’m going to be posting it next week. I hope to annihilate a flock of birds with this one.