Eminent Domain claims the Jetsons Del Taco on Grand

It’s shit like this, St. Louis…

Developer Rick Yackey plans to demolish the distinctive flying-saucer-shaped Del Taco at N. Grand and Forest Park Parkway, near St. Louis University, and replace it with new retail buildings, a city development official said Tuesday.

I get that the building isn’t very pretty or – to put it another way – retail friendly. But it’s a landmark.

Wet Hot American Summer Prequel planned

Hell yes!

When I was at camp, my favorite activity was always arts and crafts. Or, as we used to call it: arts and *farts* and crafts. We used to make drawings… cave drawings! Which is my way of saying we were cave men. I went to camp so long ago that I can remember saying “sticks and stones may break my bones” and meaning it! I went to camp so long ago that fucking Jesus Christ was my counselor! And my best friend hadn’t fully evolved yet! His name was Ug and he walked on all fours! There were two epidemics when I went to camp: head lice, and the plague – the bubonic plague!

All the energy we need is right beneath our feet

Stop drilling for oil & natural gas. Geothermal is where it’s at, y’allz.

Iceland taps Facebook to help re-write the country’s constitution

Good thing the government didn’t turn to YouTube comments.

Chicago Tribune’s new typeface: Mercury Text

I’m in love with Hoefler & Frere-Jones. There, I said it. Now, let’s get some legislation approved and through congress allowing man-on-foundry marriages — I’ll be waiting at the courthouse.

And here’s a link to Mercury Text on the H&FJ website.

The Smartphone Parent

On this, the eve of my daughter’s second birthday, I’ve realized that I need to keep my iPhone away when I’m around my daughter.

RSVP for tonight’s Build Guild St. Louis meetup

The guest list for tonight’s event is quite impressive.

Do musicians have better brains?

A bit biased here, but I think so.

Draft turns life-long Cubs fans into Cardinals fans

That’s what happens when your kid gets drafted by the Cardinals…

(I’d rather die than root for the Steelers should I spawn a boy.)

Scott Walker has officially crossed the line

Evil.

Yet even though sales from the state’s largest craft brewer, New Glarus Brewing Co., trail one of the state’s largest brewers, MillerCoors, by millions of barrels of beer annually — 92,000 compared to more than 5 million — a motion slipped into Gov. Scott Walker’s budget would treat brewers of all sizes equally by preventing them from owning or operating a wholesale distributor.

“Everything in this bill is designed to make it harder for small craft brewers to grow,” says Deb Carey, a co-owner of New Glarus Brewing and a member of the Wisconsin Brewers Guild. “It is a slimy piece of legislation.”