The first time I heard Linkwood, aka Nick Moore, aka Prime Numbers I was blown away by the groove.  The Linkwood and House of Traps RA podcast still persists on my frequent listening lists, its an instant classic.  As a lover of all dance music, it is impossible not to love the essentials of disco which is the basis of Nick Moore’s sound often referred to as Nu Disco.  I’ve started to hate that term but it is what it is.
Linkwood roots go back to early 2000’s in Edinburgh UK …

Do you hate bike thiefs or any other type of criminals for that matter?  This video might make you feel better, maybe.  In this video some citizens had enough with a local bike thief and they finally decided to take matters into their own hands.  They set up an ambush scene with a hidden camera and a bait bike to catch him in the act. After a couple of nights he gets caught ‘redhanded’ stealing the bait bike then gets blasted by dozens of paintballs.  He attempts to retaliate with …

Calling all true underground dance music connoisseurs of San Francisco.  In case you missed the last one, the one and only Mr. Dan Bell aka DBX will be playing another 9 hour set this Saturday night at the most precious of all underground locations in North America, this is a fairly common opinion shared by those who have experienced it.
Who? What? Dan Bell is an underground dance music pioneer from Detroit.  Many will argue that he invented the minimal techno sound, he definitely owns rights to the original classics …

Thursday November 19th at 9pm, Indy Spirits Expo Afterparty
Macchu Pisco and Combier Present
‘NOW AVAILABLE’ IN CALIFORNIA PARTY
1 FREE Macchu Pisco Daisy cocktail, Come celebrate
$5 Pisco and Combier cocktails
Top Shelf Music provided by Romanowski
@ 83 Proof, 83 First Street (between Market and Mission)
NO COVER
Special thanks to our new distributor in California, Wine Warehouse.
follow @piscosf on twitter for more news and info
The Facebook Invite: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=176404807157&ref=ts
Join the Macchu Pisco Facebook Group for more goodies: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18760511406&ref=ts
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As best described in bullet points by Daniel Gritzer in his Time Out New York magazine article. …

I was walking across the Galata bridge late at night in Istanbul when I ran into a very old Turkish man wearing this hat.  It was unreal that someone that old could be wearing such a cool hat. I don’t mean to say anything agist, but I was not in San Francisco you know, I am just saying.  I went up and talked to him, his name was Salman and he spoke no English, but he could tell I liked his hat and the guy was obviously pretty cool and …

At any central market and in many corner stores in Lima and around Peru, you can now find superstitious lucky soap product, Jabon Ruda.  It claims the soap is derived from a secret preparation formula from the “Palacio del Imperio” (Imperial Palace) and that Ruda has been used by pharaohs and Inca kings that attributed magical conquering powers.

Accorgding to Wikipedia, Ruda, or Common Rue, is a plant with some acknowledged medicinal properties from digestive aid to arthritis relief but also used as an abortifacient to horses and humans. It is …

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I met William at a stoplight in San Isidro as he was breakdancing for money. He was literally turning on his head to earn a living. This is an example of a great Peruvian guy earning a fair buck with his talents. Support the street arts worldwide. Give William some love at bboy257@hotmail

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Happy #giveprops day!  In lieu of retweeting and @replying to tweeps, blatantly tell your followers who to follow.
#giveprops to your favorite twitter personalities throughout the day by explicitly telling your followers to follow them and add ‘#giveprops’ at the end of your tweet. Presto! It’s that easy.
#giveprops will help us follow new cool twitter streams which we did not previously know about.  If someone gives you #giveprops, be honored, they enjoy your twitter company.
This is an experiement testing the love on Twitter and the following picture is the first result …

I posted the following Twitter.

Here are the responses. Most names are abbreviated:
CHB at 11:25am November 4- move to Norway
NA at 11:31am November 4- move to New Zealand and shave sheep
TB at 11:34am November 4 – moving to Norway w/Cecilie.
COZ at 11:40am November 4 – Any more room in Norway? Count me in!
BS at 11:41am November 4 – loot downtown Chicago
SDK at 11:45am November 4- will too go to Norway.
JDH at 11:50am November 4-cry, then move.
EZ at 11:54am November 4- move to Slovenia and talk S@%^ about the US!
AM at 12:02pm …

A friend was able to capture this magical looking moonset over the Golden Gate Bridge at 6:30 am this morning.  Amazing:

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