This band is laughably godawful. But don’t tell to now banned MeFi user RustyBottoms, who offered a front page post championing the band in question, which, uh, he happens to play in. Of course, this being a self-link, and for a lousy band to boot, he predictably faced the wrath and ridicule of the Mefites. The train wreck is here, complete with an animated GIF involving a penis and a chicken, for those now waiting in airports for their BEA flights. As for “Pretty Flowers,” you haven’t heard mediocre until you’ve listened to “Riot.”

Dan Wickett offers many reports of the Ann Arbor Book Festival.

Our pal Sarvas pops that MSM cherry with a review of Sheila Heti’s Ticknor in the Philadelphia Inquirer.