From the always reliable exploding aardvark, possibly the best lede of all time:

A jazz musician was injured Friday after jumping from a burning motor home driven by a one-time roller skating stripper from Lodi.http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2007/

Grant McLennan died. I really disliked the Go-Betweens the first time I heard them. Took me ten years to appreciate them. Now I won't see him play! Rats. :(

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Mike Watt has a new van, and Jalopnik decided to document this. I like the fact that the photos they took are exact quotes of the photos from the Double Nickels on the Dime album cover.