1. I was excited about today's debut of Air America, the new liberal talk-radio network airing in New York, Los Angeles and that other bastion of left-wing thought -- the Inland Empire. But those liberals need to figure out how to work all the buttons. First, the Internet stream had server errors all day, and then I tuned in tonight and heard the news reader coughing into the mike and commenting to a coworker, "Rhandi Rhodes changed a whole bunch of shit on the board." Al Franken, We wanna give you the ratings. We just gotta hear you first.

2. Shocking New York dive-bar news: Filthy McNasty's is gone. Long live the 12" Bar.

3. Fresyes normally doesn't geek out this much, but Google's new email service, Gmail, sounds insane. Includes 1 gig of space and a search function to look for old messages.

4. The Polyphonic Spree were on Fuse TV's "IMX" today. Nothing against the guy from Tripping Daisy, but these guys are on the verge of drinking the Kool-Aid.

5. Hooray! The fledgling Fresno Craigslist now has two more postings, bringing it to a grand total of 13. (Must be all that Fresyes publicity.)