5/11 Morning Communiqué

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

Art director Nick Vlcek corralled the cast and crew of Drinking with Ian for a photo shoot just posted in our gallery section.

Steve Monaco has retired his "Top 10" in exchange for a No-Life Bottom Three at Couch Pundit.

Chuck Terhark reviews the recent Peter Bjorn and John concert, with photos by Daniel Corrigan, also in our gallery section.

THESE DAYS

Spanish police pulled over a man in a electric wheelchair who was riding along on an expressway after he got lost while looking for a brothel.

People who have had more than five oral-sex partners in their lifetime are 250% more likely to have throat cancer than those who do not have oral sex, a new study suggests. Stupid new study.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Matthew David Tolic blogs about the St. Paul Farmers Market, Britney Spears, and getting Lasik surgery at Humdrummy.

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937 [via Incoming Signals]

Gene Simmons on a 1974 episode of the Mike Douglas Show

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"When he was gunned down, we had a lot of condolence messages at my office."

— doctor and bestselling author Deepak Chopra, on being mistaken for the late rapper Tupac Shakur because of their somewhat similar names