gosh, thanks y'all for all your great (and loathsome) recommendations. I have today and tomorrow to go, and am enjoying the exploding head game and reading all of the Gawker-related blogs. and the new onion. and looking forward to tomorrow's city paper.
that, and i've been waiting 6 weeks for my black spot sneakers to come. so every time the squeaky mailroom cart lumbers past my ears perk up, hoping for hempy shoegoodness. but no luck yet.