Monday, January 17, 1:00 pm EST on WFMU. Our Lucy — Lucy Foley, together with her band, will perform live in the WFMU studio — and chat with program host Irene Trudel.

Update: You can also watch a short video (made at Wombat Recording) featuring Lucy Foley on vocals and Ross Bonadonna on guitar.

Music from Saharan cell phones is a compilation of music shared between cell phone owners in Mali.

When I posted this, the phrase “insert in post” caught my eye.

As we learned from the podcast I did for the Large Penis Support Group I am well endowed. I have always heard of there being a race of men who have extremely tiny penii but never really took those stories at face value. Let me tell you something. This may scare you…. It is absolutely true. Horrible and awful and true. Oh, my damned eyes! Why have I clicked the links? Was it curiosity or do I just hate myself that much. Visions of vienna sausages and baby mice fill my mind. Luckily for you I went there so you don’t have to. All you have to do is listen to the nonsense that people at MyTinyDick.Net talk about. I warn you, there will be acronyms you’ve never heard of. Like SPH and SPG. These stand for Small Penis Humiliation & Small Penis Glorification. I think if you went to this site your natural inclination would be towards SPE (Small Penis Eradication.) That may sound harsh but I think we’d all be better off….

Plus podcast.

(thanks, Aaron)

I almost universally hate podcasts since they mostly suck, but what Robert Ashley does by manipulating voice and sound in contextually appropriate ways does not.

On Monday, January 29, 1990, jazz critic Francis Davis interviewed Sun Ra at the Sun Ra house on Morton Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Davis recalls that while several resident Arkestra members were present, the mailman arrived at the door at almost the exact moment that he did, handed him the mail without knowing who he was, and said “good luck.” One item in the mail that day was an Ed McMahon millionaire sweepstakes letter, addressed to Arkestra saxophonist John Gilmore. “JOHN GILMORE MAY ALREADY BE A WINNER,” it read, and the Arkestra made quite a deal about that — as if it were an omen of some sort. Subsequent to Davis’ visit, Sun Ra performed at Philadelphia’s African American Museum, and City Council honored him with a miniature Liberty Bell generally given to visiting celebrities and dignitaries.

It’s people like Jason Kottke that help us decide what is and what isn’t worth reading on the Web.  He’s been publishing his suggested content at Kottke.org since 1998, and has been doing it professionally, full-time, since 2005.  Since he’s getting pretty good at playing tastemaker for tens of thousands of Internet users, we pulled him into studio to ask him how he feels about playing digital curator.

At the end of interview Jason gives a short list of favorite blogs and is kind enough to put clusterflock next to a few of my favorite as well: Marginal Revolution, Waxy.org, and Hacker News.

1. Why is Kevin Bacon famously uncomfortable around FAX machines?
2. How does Adam save the world by not wearing shoes?
3. What are the slam poet’s secret romantic techniques?
4. Why are short films so long? Or vice versa?
5. Why do alfalfa farmers know so much about the Renaissance?
6. What food is best eaten deep-fried?

For the unintiated, YLNT, is produced by Adam Lisagor, Scott Simpson, and Merlin Mann.