Picture via idiotjenn
Heyyyy cheapskates. Want some freebies!? This week we found two ceramic kilns, some yummy Vegan cookies, and, while it’s not free, a street lady offered up a $2 “party”. This is a big improvement over last week’s Swede-fest 2009.

Two Ceramic Kilns for FREE (Greenpoint)
Ideal mate: you make a lot of pizza or a heck of a lot of pottery.
I remember you being $2 and I need your services once again. – m4w – 26 (greenpoint)
When someone asks if you want to party for $2, they’re talking about handjobs, aren’t they. What other kind of $2 parties are there? I mean, to get a freaking clown these days it costs upwards of $50 at least. And that’s probably a really shitty clown.
Oh! And this one’s in the Bronx, but who can argue with 200 hats?
Just take a quick subway up there to really work on your alt-fashion attire. And this isn’t just hats we’re talking about here either. Oohhhh no. There are visors too. Look what they wrote in their ad: “I have about 200 hats / sun visors.” That’s hats slash sun visors. It really doesn’t get much better than that, and for the price of nothing!?

Yummy vegan chocolate chip cookies and beer (Williamsburg)
And lastly, local musician Scott Alexander is playing at The Trash Bar (256 Grand St. at Roebling) Saturday night at 8, and to get you to come, he’s giving out free cookies! And seriously, they sound really, really good right now. This may or may not be an uber-pixelated version of Scott and his cookies:

So, happy hunting folks, and if anyone gets those visors, please, send me one. I’ll give you $2 for it.

Blatant racism notwithstanding, you’d think this inbred retard would figure out that this probably isn’t good for business. We’ll certainly be boycotting his Greenwich Village bakery. [hat tip Gothamist]

It’s motherfucking Friday! This should get you in the mood to celebrate the weekend in our new Bush-free era. The Easybeats’ “Sorry:”

Meanwhile, Bush’s cronies think Obama should be sorry for being so tough on the administration in his inaugural speech.

‚”There were a few sharp elbows that really rankled and I felt were not as magnanimous as the occasion called for,” Karen Hughes, a longtime Bush confidante, said in an interview. ‚”He really missed an opportunity to be as big as the occasion was and, frankly, as gracious as President Bush was as he left office.”
Dan Bartlett, another top adviser, used similar language. ‚”It was a missed opportunity to bring some of the president’s loyal supporters into the fold,” he said. Marc A. Thiessen, the chief White House speechwriter until this week, added: ‚”It was an ungracious inaugural. It was pretty clear he was taking shots.”

As far as we’re concerned, these two bile bags should be thankful Bush hasn’t received a public caning.

We’ve definitely been preoccupied with Animal Collective this month, whipping up posts here and there. And while I hate to be redundant, it’s also true that the fervor is well deserved. The group just released their spectacular Merriweather Post Pavilion on Tuesday, and now Domino Records has bestowed upon us the LP’s first music video, for ‚”My Girls.” Animal Collective always shell out inventive – albeit freaky – videos (see “Peacebone” or “Water Curses” if you need reassurance on that). ‚”My Girls” is no exception:

photography by Williamsburg artist Christina Latimer
We missed the opening on January 13, but our friend and photographer Christina Latimer currently has a show at The Brooklyn Public Library, Williamsburgh Branch. It’s called Urban and Organic: The Architecture of the City and features photography from around the neighborhood. The exhibit runs through February 28—make sure you find out more about supporting the library when you stop by. One more photo by Latimer after the jump.

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Tickets for tonight’s show featuring Ra Ra Riot and Regina Spektor are back on sale, reports Brooklyn Vegan:

Regina Spektor and Ra Ra Riot are playing the benefit for Planned Parenthood at Bowery Ballroom in NYC tonight. It was sold out, but now tickets are back on sale.

Get tickets here.

AC, 2006 @ Bowery, C/O Jason Bergman
We all think very highly of Animal Collective–they’re true musical pioneers. I was fortunate to attend the show last night, but I caught wind of a Craigslist scam charging people $100 a piece for false tickets. It’s unfortunate that this happened. If you are looking for the person to blame, I believe someone at Brooklyn Vegan has the scoop on the jerk.
Whoever you are, I hope you have a great day.

Also, Robert Lanham is praying for Rick Warren’s sniffles over at HuffPost.
[Thanks Anna]

The original draft of what became the ubiquitous “Change” poster

There were tons of cross-brandings during the campaign, from storefronts in Soho to the new Pepsi logo, including these “Obama Force One” sneakers.
See the rest at our buddy Noah’s great blog, Nerdabout NY.

The Whitest Kids U Know are in town this weekend to kick off their country-wide tour with a three night run at Comix, starting tomorrow night at 8. If you haven’t seen them live, or their show on IFC, they were the sketch comedy dudes who had this painted ad on Bedford last spring. Anyways, they’re back on IFC starting next Tuesday, January 27 at 10pm ET/PT for a ten-episode run, which will probably be hilarious.
For more of them white kids, visit the youtube channel or their site. To purchase tickets to the Comix shows, click here, orrrrrrrrrrr…too late….Paul won!
be our lucky winner and email me (too late), say “i want kids tickets!”, and you can go for free! Yes, that’s right, I have (2) tickets to their show at Comix tomorrow (Thursday) night, which includes a 3-course-no-joke dinner. We’re talking shit like Plank Baked Salmon people. These tix go for $67.25, So hurry up, grab a date and act fast. First one to email gets both tix.
Otherwise, check out this clip from their upcoming season for a lesson in what not to do with a boner: