The Chicago Park District is offering a ten week class, Fridays, from 7:30-9pm at Green Briar park for $25. Total. Please let’s support this class and hang out together once a week for a face-numbingly cheap $2.50 a session. All levels welcome, according to the park.http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/programs/

It’s go time!

amazing.

STORY - For the past three years, my son Miles has been fighting brain cancer. While in the hospital, I asked his schoolmates, doctors, comedians, celebrities and total strangers to tape a joke for him to watch.

Now, as he’s facing a third recurrence, I’m on a quest to get 5,000 people to tape a quick joke or well-wish, to show him he’s not alone in his fight against cancer.

Do you have a joke? CLICK HERE to show Miles you’re in his corner.

NO SMALL PLANS - As we attempt to get 5,000 people to tell Miles a joke, we hope to create awareness worldwide and inspire people to go out of their way to tell a joke to someone facing a serious illness. We will soon be reaching out to other kids like Miles.

Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer, composed entirely as old school video games

After releasing OK Computer, an album about technological malaise at the close of the 20th century, Radiohead released the spartan and sterile Kid A, an LP even more devoted to alienation.

And in a charming retro turn, composer Quinton Sung has transformed Kid A’s dystopian soundscapes into the background music for an Atari game. I imagine Q*Bert listens to this when he’s worried if he possesses the evolutionary faculties to navigate the modern media superstructure. Also, Thom Yorke and Pitfall Harry — separated at birth? Discuss. You can download the whole shebang here.

Comer Children’s Hospital, University of Chicago

View it all: http://explorechicago.org/etc/medialib/explore_chicago/dca_tourism/2012_ccc_schedules.Par.48549.File.dat/MP2012CalendarofEvents.pdf

BUT Tuesday, June 12, Dusk
Bike Chicago Film Screening: Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure

AND

Monday, June 18, 6:30 p.m.
Cloud Cult + Judson Claiborne

yes.

Bike-in movie at The Hideout: T.A.M.I. show, 1964

You could say I have a strange love affair with bizarre aerobics.

Last night I attended a ZUMBA GLOW party. It was dance aerobics under blacklights.

Should I ever get married, I am subjecting everyone who wants to bachelorette party with me to THIS.

The second shot is from my 2010 birthday at Slimmons, Richard Simmons’ aerobics studio in Beverly Hills. It was legit. That’s what I subjected everyone who wanted to celebrate 25 years with me got. This photo includes my father and my childhood music teacher and RICHARD SIMMONS. Needless to say, I will treasure it FOREVER.