Man, here we are all nostalgic listening to Endtroducing, and the blogosphere pays us back with some serious synchronicity -- all sorts of funky-fresh music! We're totally drooling over this new Soul Sides compilation from O-Dub, on vinyl no less! Kid Kameleon posts not one, not two, but three mixes from three different DJs, including one of his own. Mesh SF presents a "motherlode" of the 40oz. show. And while this is kinda old,......

As if people aren't deja vu'ing enough with all these illegal eavesdropping things going on, it was also reported that the the Pentagon (the Pentagon?) has been spying on groups and organizations that they have deemed as possibly dangerous. Like PETA. Or Greenpeace. And gay student groups that are opposed to the military's "Don't Ask/Don't Tell" policy. These included a February protest at NYU and a protest at UC Santa Cruz that featured a kiss-in. According to the FBI, those protests were deemed a "credible threat" of terrorism. And how: we can't tell you how many times we were at parties where one moment everyone's making out, the next minute everyone's calling for for violently overthrowing the government. It must have happened at every High School Dance. And there's nothing that says Islamo-facism like a bunch of men kissing each other. ...

Relaxed from spending a week off in order to spike the Thanksgiving gravy with enough bourbon to kill Dennis Hopper, Barrespondent Drew dives right back into the San Francisco bar scene just in time for the peak drinking season. Alas, yet another old familiar bar has changed hands, been gutted of everything but the support beams and been completely redone. Following in the footsteps of places like Doctor Bombay’s, The Albion and Hush Hush......