Caren Explains Wild Sweet Orange

If you haven't picked up Southeast Performer, the free and resourceful monthly music mag (edited by the ever-so-rad Leila), you should! It's free at cool places like Brick Store, The Earl, Vortex, Flying Biscuit, etc. And now you have more reason to because my first story is out in the April issue!

Check out the "Spotlight" on Wild Sweet Orange, then go check out the band on MySpace...

Caren Explains Which Celebrites Look Like Her

After last night's Oscar party and red carpet extravaganza, I was curious to see which celebrities I could pass for. Here are the results:



Molly Ringwald is an obvious match... I would have done well in the 1980s. But Zac Hanson? That excited me most. I knew those Hanson boys looked like girls...

And to prove that I have really good genes, I tried this experiment on my sister too...



Whereas I had a match with Jessica Biel, my sister had a 90% match with Jessica Alba?! Dang girl.

Try it out yourself at My Heritage.

Our LOLCat

It seems that Kitty is trying to mail herself to France to see her owner, Lauren. I found her howling from inside this box Sunday night (yes, Kitty got herself in there).

I wanted to help, but all I could think was ... "Step 1: Cut a whole in the box. Step 2: Put your cat in the box... It's my cat in a box!"

NEW! VOTE FOR KITTY on ICANHAZCHEEZBURGER... her self-esteem has been low so please give her 5 cheezburgers...

Caren Explains the Best Songs of 2007 that Buzzed the Blogs

It's time for the next installment of the Best Songs of 2007 according to me. This one pays homage to the bands that bloggers loved and sometimes loved to hate in 2007.

Since this playlist is about bloggers, it made more sense to link up the songs via blogs instead of iTunes... plus, some of these bands are so obscure to the mainstream that they don't even sell their tunes on iTunes.

So enjoy...

"Comfy in Nautica" - Panda Bear
(courtesy of The Daily Growl)

"Bomb.Repeat.Bom" - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
(courtesy of Largehearted Boy)

"Elephant Gun" - Beirut
(courtesy of Red Blondehead)

"Oxford Comma" - Vampire Weekend
(courtesy of My Old Kentucky Blog)

"I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You" - Black Kids
(courtesy of Cable & Tweed)

"2080" - Yeasayer
(courtesy of I Guess I'm Floating)

"Knife" - Grizzly Bear
(courtesy of Faronheit)

"Yea Yeah (Flosstradamus Remix)" - Matt & Kim
(courtesy of GEE WIZZ)

"You're a Wolf" - Sea Wolf
(courtesy of Indie Muse)

"The Mending of the Gown" - Sunset Rubdown
(courtesy of I'm Just Sayin Is All...)

"Wet and Rustling" - Menomena
(courtesy of KISSATLANTA)

"Bend Over Beethoven" - !!!
(courtesy of Comfort Music)

"Heinrich Manuever" - Interpol
(courtesy of Music Is My Occupation)

"Chicago X 12" - Rogue Wave
(courtesy of Stereogum)

"Get Lucky (MSTRKRFT Remix)" - New Young Pony Club
(courtesy of Good Weather For Airstrikes)

Thanks, bloggers.

Huckabee/Norris in 2008?

Iowa might love Mike Huckabee, but Mike Huckabee loves Chuck Norris!




Yes, Huckabee's biggest fan was on-hand in Iowa, following Huckabee's GOP caucus win, which now raises a good question... would Chuck Norris make a good running mate?

Um, DUH... just look at the facts!

10 reasons that Chuck Norris would make an excellent running mate:

1. There is no "ctrl" button on Chuck Norris' computer. Chuck Norris is always in control.
2. Chuck Norris agrees with Huckabee that there is no theory of evolution. Just the animals Chuck allows to live.
3. The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
4. Chuck Norris once shot down a terrorist with his finger by yelling, "BANG!"
5. Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy; it is a Chucktatorship.
6. When an episode of "Walker: Texas Ranger" was aired in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris, just to be on the safe side.
7. Chuck Norris always knows the EXACT location of Carmen Sandiego
8. Unlike other vice presidents, Chuck Norris knows that there is no such thing as global warming. Chuck was cold, so he turned up the sun.
9. Chuck Norris did, in fact, build Rome in a day.
10. If you have 50% of the vote, and Chuck Norris has 50% of the vote, Chuck Norris still wins.