Sure, Chinese Democracy may actually be hitting the shelves quite soon, but have Avolition moved beyond Poop Alley, or finished the recordings they started two months ago? No to both! LIAR! LYRA! LIAR! LYRA! But this Saturday we shall Return To Poop and Begin Recording Again, and reinstate THE TRUTH to the world, because our moral qualms insist on clearing the air of much more than just bad wind after a good burrito. In all fairness, the Pending New Space was to have some much needed recording equipment we lack, so in theory two birds would have met their untimely demise under just one stone, but since that didn't exactly pan out we've been left, once again, to our own devices.

In other Various Forms of Exciting News, we have two gigs lined up at the same time! Our first practice in weeks was last night, and other than a handful of softies everything got LOUD * LOUD * LOUD so if you plan on attending either show, make sure to bring your Rawk Face (and maybe some earplugs). Also, hey did you hear? Obama is going to be our new president! This makes all three of us extremely excited that a guy we don't quite hate will now be in charge of a failing economy, becoming ever more powerless to stop it with each passing day, because anybody with anysense knows that things are going to keep getting worse and soon enough we'll all have to relegate ourselves to stealing like Japan's Elderly Citizens:

Nov. 14 -- More senior citizens are picking pockets and shoplifting in Japan to cope with cuts in government welfare spending and rising health-care costs in a fast-ageing society.

Criminal offences by people 65 or older doubled to 48,605 in the five years to 2008, the most since police began compiling national statistics in 1978, a Ministry of Justice report said.

Theft is the most common crime of senior citizens, many of whom face declining health, low incomes and a sense of isolation, the report said. Elderly crime may increase in parallel with poverty rates as Japan enters another recession and the budget deficit makes it harder for the government to provide a safety net for people on the fringes of society.

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Coverage intensified after a 79-year-old woman slashed two women with a knife near a Tokyo railway station in August. She wanted police to take care of her after she ran away from a shelter for the homeless, Kyodo English News reported at the time.

--Bloomberg

Isn't that wonderful?! Today! Tomorrow! Tofuture!

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