Wed, 17 December 2014
This week, Alex Zhang Hungtai of DIRTY BEACHES and LAST LIZARD records some answers to burning questions, including a description of performing at David Lynch's bar that's straight out of a David Lynch movie! plus learn about accepting culture through food, and the appeal of dirty old man literature. Emmanuel plays a 90s set, a third language set, and Travis plays a tape segment! Hear these tunes: Dirty Beaches - Water Park OST - Water Park Theme
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_84_-_DEC_15_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:54pm EDT |
Tue, 2 December 2014
ACTION PACKED SHOW THIS WEEK! We interview Montreal’s MOSS LIME in the back of a car, and find out about their worst toilet memories and secret art collections! Then, an interview with Toronto’s BLONDE ELVIS about their rampant alcohol abuse! Plus Emmanuel and Travis put themselves through the CITY SLANG questionnaire and talk about their worst jobs ever! We play these tunes: Moss Lime - July First - Ice Cream Sandwiches
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_83_-_DEC_1_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:52am EDT |
Tue, 25 November 2014
Lesley of BONNIE DOON interviews HSY! Two classic CITY SLANG guests that that guest great together!
Plus, Emmanuel plays bands from Not Dead Yet fest! Alanna plays braaaaaaand new tunes! Travis sends in a rippin' hardcore set.
Hear these tunes:
The Yips - Air Loom - Point Dume - 2:23 - CC Bonnie Doon - An Affair to Remember - 2:02 - CC HSY - Single - Cyber Bully - 3:24 - CC The Beverleys - Single - Dreams - 2:37 - CC
Radioactivity – Dirtnap 2014 Sampler – World of Pleasure – 1:55 Missing Monuments – Dirtnap 2014 Sampler – Answer the Call – 2:46 Mind Spiders – Dirtnap 2014 Sampler – Make Make Make Make – 2:06 Bad Sports – Dirtnap 2014 Sampler – Terrible Place – 3:32
Destruction Unit - Deep Trip - Evil Man - 3:32 Pleasure Leftists - 12” - Elephant Man - 3:28 Institute - Salt 12” - Salt - 2:41
Spraypaint - Clean Blood, Regular Acid - Rest Versus Rush - 2:53 Negative Rage - Craft Single - Pile (Tina, Age 13) - 3:02 CC The Stasi - Demo 2014 - German Guilt - 1:05 Toronto Homicide Squad - Slow Burn Lathe - Slow Burn - 2:36 CC
Kim Gray - Backseat Bingo - On Top - 2:23 - CC Nots - We Are Nots - Get Along - 0:48 Nots - We Are Nots - Black Mold - 2:19
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_82_-_NOV_24_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:58pm EDT |
Tue, 11 November 2014
Garrett Johnson of BRAZILIAN MONEY talks to us about cliff-side shows, freaking out frat bros, and offers a surprisingly even-handed analysis of Macaulay Culkin's PIZZA UNDERGOUND! Plus we talk about the most dangerous show we've been to, and our first cassettes! We play these tunes: Brazilian Money - Brazilian Money - Why Am I Still Standing Here? Charly Bliss - Soft Serve EP - Soft Serve
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_81_-_NOV_10_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:44pm EDT |
Tue, 4 November 2014
Our New York City Slang correspondent sends in an interview with POTTY MOUTH from CMJ! Learn the latest BREAKING NEWS on their nail polish regiment! Plus, the whole gang is ing the studio! We play new tunes, a split special, an talk about our favourite split records! We play these tunes: Potty Mouth - Hell Bent - Wish List
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_80_-_NOV_3_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:28am EDT |
Tue, 28 October 2014
This week we talk to Annie from NEW FRIES and she gives a SHOCKING answer when asked which Simpsons character she is! Then puts the kids to bed and listen to the SPOOKTACULAR Halloween episode of CITY SLANG! Hear these tunes: New Fries- Fresh Face Forward - Plexiglass
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_79_-_OCT_27_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:57pm EDT |
Tue, 21 October 2014
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Carson of Merchandise and Anton of Lower face off in a parking lot outside an arcade!
Anton and Carson teach us about why music interviews suck and the dreamland of Denmark! Plus our censoring skills get put to the test when we learn about the worst Spanish and Danish curse words!
Plus we’ve got a FULL HOUSE in the studio, and Alanna, Travis, and Emmanuel offer up sets of new songs!
Hear these tunes:
Merchandise - After The End - Little Killer
Lower - Seek Warmer Climes - Daft Persuasion
Merchandise - Children of Desire - Time
Lower - Seek Warmer Climes - Another Life
Merchandise - After The End - Green Lady
Viet Cong - Viet Cong - Continental Shelf
TV Sets - Rat Tar Art - Just As Well
Absolutely Free - Absolutely Free - Vision’s
Sheer Mag - 7” - What You Want
Christi - Demo - Get You Off (My Mind)
R.L. Kelly - Brown Horse (R.L. Kelly) - The Great Big World
Jons - Serfs of Today - Last Call For Buss
Martha - Courting Strong - Move to Durham and Never Leave
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_78_-_OCT_20_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:14am EDT |
Thu, 9 October 2014
GET TICKETS TO THE OTTAWA IMPLOSION! Email us at cityslangradio@gmail.com before our next episode (Oct. 13) for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the festival! This week on the show, our plans to interview the band MERCHANDISE don’t go as planned! We play a set of phone-related tunes! Plus an interview with SOLIDS, a spotlight on Ottawa implosion bands, and all the new tunes you can handle! Ex Hex - Beast - How You Got That Girl Merchandise - After The End - Telephone Hot & Cold - Skip Skip Ben Ben split - Flynt Boyhood - Bits and Bobs - Balcony
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_77__-_OCT_6_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:21am EDT |
Tue, 30 September 2014
MONOMYTH VS NAP EYES! Two of CITY SLANG'S fave bands face off in an alleyway with hilarious results!
Alanna and Travis harass CITY SLANG faves NAP EYES and MONOMYTH outside a venue! They dish dirt on themselves, explain how board games work, and get to the bottom of who has more in common with Kanye West. Plus ragers from around the world, and BRUCE HAACK! Tunes this week: Nap Eyes - Whine of The Mystic - Dark Creedence Iceage - Plowing Into The Field Of Love - The Lord's Favorite No.Negative - Album Blanc II - Feelin' The Heat Bruce Haack - Electric Lucifer Book II - Stand Up Lazarus
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_76_-_SEPTEMBER_29_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:26pm EDT |
Wed, 24 September 2014
Emmanuel returns from globe-trotting with tons of vinyl! Travis makes fun of Steve Albini and plays nasty new tunes! We play UK punk, international thrashers, and Canadian weirdos!
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_75_-_SEPT_22_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:06pm EDT |
Wed, 17 September 2014
Travis and Alanna run rampant! Classy jazz interludes, dance music, and a peak at a couple DJ sets the City Slang crew is doing this week. In the second half, a spotlight on Buzz Records and an interview with Anamai of HSY and more! So Cow - The Long Con - Get Down Off Of That Thing - 1:48
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_74_-_SEPT_15_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:45pm EDT |
Thu, 11 September 2014
Musician, producer, illustrator, animator, super nice dude CHAD VANGAALEN is on the show! Chad talks about his animated movie, his daughter’s defunct techno bands, and their strange bug powers! PLus, Chad FIRES BACK at his frienemies in VIET CONG and responds to their trash talk from EPISODE 68! Plus, contributor Alanna Why is in studio, and Travis talks about the greatest YouTube comment ever! IF YOU MISS THIS EPISODE IT WILL LITERALLY HAUNT YOU! Tunes this week: Teenanger - E P L P - Sky Saxon Eaters - Eaters - Bury The Lines |
Tue, 26 August 2014
Robbie of RUBBER BROTHER RECORDS braves the face melting conditions of Tempe, Arizona to deliver one of the funniest CITY SLANG questionnaires yet! Learn about angst-y Celine Dion concerts, funeral t-shirts, and a town-sized truck stop! PLUS a spotlight on Shake! Records, some punk-rock Birthday shout outs, and MORE! This week’s tunes: Petty Things - Year of The Dog - Bored Lungbutter - Extractor - Jellyfish The Vibrators - Pure Manio - Whips and Furs Fist City - Shake! Records sampler - Queen of The Slugs
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_72_-_AUG_25_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:49pm EDT |
Wed, 20 August 2014
ZAKARY SLAX AND THE TEENAGE MUTANT SUPERSTARZ size up against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, talk pizza, martial arts, and their upcoming schawarma reservation! Plus killer tunes and Birthday shout outs! Featuring these tunes: Zakary Slax - Teenage Mutant - Get Yr Shit Together
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_71_-_AUG_18_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:54pm EDT |
Wed, 13 August 2014
Jackson MacIntosh of the band SHEER AGONY talks to us about psychedelic times in Florida, drunk times on camera, and the most macho thing he's ever done! Heads up: he's not that macho! Plus a spotlight on the KATORGA WORKS label and tunes from the PLASTIC FACTORY RECORDS compilation! This week's tunes: Sheer Agony - Sheer Agony 7" - Claptrap
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_70_-_AUG_11_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:05pm EDT |
Tue, 29 July 2014
Subscribe to the podcast! Contributor Alanna Why talks to Ottawa’s BONNIE DOON! If you wanna rub cheezies into a wedding dress or can’t stop thinking about pizza, then this is the episode for you! Plus a buncha new tunes, including a set of music from the latest Riots Not Diets compilation! This week’s tunes: Bonnie Doon - An Affair To Imagine - Moon Tan
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_69_-_JUL_28_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:51pm EDT |
Tue, 15 July 2014
Emmanuel gets a blow-by-blow, cross-Canada tour diary from STRANGE ATTRACTOR! They save a whole mall from a gas leak and get steamed at a Winnipeg house party! Alannah Why interviews MOTHER’S CHILDREN about who could beat them up and just how many blazers they own! Plus a special set from the Dub Ditch Picnic Benefit comp! Hear sweet tunes including: Strange Attractor - Back To The Cruel World - Alien in This Room Microdot - I’ll Hang with God, but Not Today - Bleeding All Over Monomyth - Saturnalia Regalia! - Something Else
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_67_-_JULY_14_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:46am EDT |
Wed, 2 July 2014
TWEENS, VACATION, and KING'S QUEST take the CITY SLANG questionnaire in the thrilling conclusion of our Ottawa Explosion blowout!
Subscribe to the podcast! Follow us on Twitter! It’s the conclusion of our OTTAWA EXPLOSION BLOWOUT! We subject more people to the hard-hitting CITY SLANG QUESTIONNAIRE, including members of TWEENS, VACATION, and KING’S QUEST! Briggette Battle of TWEENS talks pizza, her crush on Kirk Hammett, and straight up spills her beer! Jerry Queen of TWEENS, PRETTY PRETTY, and VACATION goes to Circle Jerks shows with his Dad, talks about playing with the Breeders, and pukes up his hair!
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_65_-__JUN_30_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:42pm EDT |
Wed, 25 June 2014
It’s the first in our OTTAWA EXPLOSION BLOWOUT! We’ve scientifically engineered the best set of questions in the universe, and asked some of our favourite bands to answer the CITY SLANG QUESTIONNAIRE! Burger and Dave of TV FREAKS talk fights, why you shouldn’t fuck with them, working at mcdonald’s, and tripping on syzurp! Ian and Matt of DAD JOKES find pyrex in dildo boxes and huck bottles at Canadian alt rockers Serial Joe! Gina Vinelli of BONNIE DOON talks fighting at Ottawa Explosion, and Bonnie Doon’s Oprah connection!!
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_65__-_JUNE_23_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:42pm EDT |
Tue, 10 June 2014
OTTAWA EXPLOSION SPECIAL! We’ve got a spotlight on bands playing the OTTAWA EXPLOSION FESTIVAL, the annual festival full of beer, bands, and BEST BUDS put on by our very own Emmanuel Sayer! For more info on Ottawa Explosion and buying tickets go to the OTTAWA EXPLOSION SITE! And get on it, because the party starts TOMORROW! The tunes this week: Feral Trash - Unreleased - Obey The Mandates - S/T LP - She’s Walking Over The Marked Men - Fix My Brain - A Little Time Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right - Scum. Rise! The Yips - Air Loom - Repeater |
Wed, 28 May 2014
Vancouver's THEE AHS get blue and talk filthy sign language, prom, and Jonathan Richman! Plus, they respond to YOUTUBE COMMENTERS!
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_63_-_MAY_26_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:39pm EDT |
Wed, 21 May 2014
Matt of ABSOLUTELY FREE joins us to talk about to talk about On The Beach, the cosmic sounds of NASA probes, working with Portishead’s Geoff Barrows, and Matt gives Travis a FRANK ZAPPA primer!
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_62_-_MAY_19_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:46pm EDT |
Thu, 15 May 2014
Montreal's SHE'S are a new CITY SLANG favourite. We interview them about surviving cross-country bus trips, Dad rock, nearly dying, and esoteric Victoria knowledge! Plus our weekly tape feature and more tunes including: She’s - Split - Kim Kimono
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_61_-_MAY_12_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:11am EDT |
Wed, 7 May 2014
Mike of HOSEHEAD records and FIRST BASE stops by to tell us how he muscles bands into releasing records! We play some of the finest tunes from HOSEHEAD and find out the biggest HOSEHEAD fuck up!
Plus our tape segment, and these killer tunes:
First Base - Party Party Party - Party Party Party The White Wires - II - I Can Tell Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs - All By Myself - All By Myself Average Times - Average Times - Do The Dance TV Freaks - Leeches 7” - Leeches
Pink Wine - Tape - Persistent Cops Ketamines - So Hot! 7” - So Hot! Steve Adamyk Band - Monterrey 7” - Monterrey
VCR - VCR - Dirty Girl/City Boy The Lorettas - Fuck The Lorettas - Teenage Hell
The Dying Arts - The Dying Arts EP - Scratch HSY - single - Cyber Bully Owls - Two - I'm Surprised
Needles//Pins - Shamebirds - You Only Call Me When You're Drunk The Lad Mags - Trick - Trick - 1:59 CC La Femme - Le Podium #1 - Sur La Planche
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_60_-__MAY_5_2014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:58am EDT |
Thu, 17 April 2014
Travis pulls some key tracks from the 12 disc compilation A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89! Emmanuel dives into the CHUO record vault! AND MORE! Hear these tunes: Sheena & The Rokkets - Synkuu Pack - Omae Ga Hoshii (One More Time) Dos - Dos - Number Two Rhythm of Cruelty - Dysphoria - Way of Grief Nap Eyes - Whine of the Mystic - Tribal Thoughts
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_59_-_APRIL_14_2014_.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:18pm EDT |
Wed, 9 April 2014
Three fifths of THE YIPS join us in studio and play some choice tunes! We talk to them about the their spooky concert presence RAVE GHOST, Skrillex's influence, and their past as CHILD GOLF PRODIGIES! Hear tunes from their new Bruised Tongue tape! Hear these tunes: The Yips - Air Loom - Sadie |
Wed, 26 March 2014
LIVE EPISODE! A cavalcade of stars are harassed by Emmanuel and Travis! Bruised Tongue spin tunes! AND MORE!
LIVE EPISODE THIS WEEK! Emmanuel and Travis teamed up with BRUISED TONGUE to party with a WHO'S WHO of Ottawa luminaries at Raw Sugar! We played tunes for three hours, and this week's episode is one hour of PEAK LIVE RADIO!
Featuring LUKE of WHITE WIRES and BOYHOOD! Famous zinester ALANNA WHY! LESLEY of BONNIE DUNE! And MORE, MORE MORE!
Feel Alright - Oahu Ohio Hackamore Brick - Oh! Those Sweet Bananas
Roky Erikson and The Aliens - Bloody Hammer The Deadly Snakes - Real Rock and Roll Tonight
Cold Warps - Stuck On an Island Vacation - Shitty City 7" - Running Back - 2:35
Needles//Pins - Outta This Place 7" - Outta This Place Steve Adamyk Band - Hate Myself Masshysteri - Istiden Spectres - Pattern Recognition
Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business White Wires - Don't Call Me When You're Ill Royal Headache - Honey Joy
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_57_-_MARCH_24_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:58pm EDT |
Wed, 19 March 2014
Donation season! That means loads of prizes, crazy tunes, and a bonus St. Paddy's day set! GET ON IT!
Teledrome - Teledrome - Boyfriend
Heaven For Real - Craft Single - Hero's Code Each Other - Being Elastic - Swell Patterns Viet Cong - Unreleased - Bunker Buster
Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love - Driver Eagulls - Posessed
Rudy - Crimson EP - 14 Steps… Protex - I can't Cope 7" - I can't Cope Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Hero - Nobody's Hero
TV Freaks - Two - Rewind Average Times - EP - Summer Nights
Black Walls - Communion - Communion
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_56_-_MAR_17_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:12pm EDT |
Wed, 12 March 2014
THE BEVERLEYS go blue on us and talk about porn bloopers! Plus talk of big macs, ghosts, and HSY crashes the show for MORE PORN TALK! Don't tell your parents about this one.
Plus it'a funding drive season! Keep good shit like our show on the air!
Hear these tunes:
The Beverleys - The Beverleys - Bad Company The Beverleys - The Beverleys - This is Not A Union HSY - HSY 7" - Tartar Mouth The Beverleys - The Beverleys - Dreams
Toronto Homicide Squad - Nein Bullets - Cold Eggs The New Values - The New Values - Straight Line
Big Mouth - Sound - Sisyphus RVIVR - The Beauty Between - The Seam Rose Melberg - Distant Ships - Distant Ships
Metz - Metz - Wasted Big Dick - Big Dick - Witchcraft The Ketamines - Stay Awake 7" - Always Small |
Tue, 4 March 2014
One-man psych band PAUL JACOBS talks about cartoons, getting into trouble, and how his house burning down drove him to skateboarding.
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_54__-_MAR_3_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:45pm EDT |
Thu, 27 February 2014
Emmanuel and Travis play a buncha crazy new tunes! We introduce a new segment with a brand new theme song all about TAPES, TAPES TAPES! Hear these songs: Pypy - Pagan Day - Pagan Day MASS - No One - Little Town Ratstab - Noise War Demo - Mangel Lumpy & The Dumpers - Demo 1 - Face the Meat Tough Age - Tough Age Dream Date
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_53_-_FEB_24_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:48pm EDT |
Wed, 19 February 2014
Dean of the killer ODONIS ODONIS discusses bad VHS movies, Canada's archangel Thor, children's television, and--most importantly--breakfast. Plus, non-stop bangers from Canada and beyond! Hear these tunes: Odonis Odonis - Single - New Obsession
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_52_-_FEB_17_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:50pm EDT |
Wed, 12 February 2014
AW, DANG! Those jerks from Bruised Tongue burst into the studio and took over the show this week. They play their favourite tunes from 2013, a new track from Boyhood, and plug their dumb five-year anniversary party this weekend! Hear these tunes: Boyhood - Post Poc Destruction Unit - Deep Trip - God Trip
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_51_v2_-_FEB_10_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:02pm EDT |
Tue, 28 January 2014
Joe of KAPPA CHOW talks about the Sackville, NB music scene, Twin Peaks, and the punkest thing he’s done! Plus, Travis quizes him on the mythical creature the KAPPA, and we learn about farts, cucumbers, and the toughest member of KAPPA CHOW! We hear a set of Sackville tunes, including unreleased tracks! Heard these tunes: Kappa Chow - KC I/II - Bang Bang
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_50_-_JAN_27_2014.mp3_1.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:31pm EDT |
Wed, 22 January 2014
TJ, Burger, and Dave of the great TV FREAK's tell us how to spend one night in Hamilton, talk cover art, and buying candy. Hear TV Freaks' et of hand-selected classics from Hamilton, including SIMPLY SAUCER! Hear these tunes: TV Freaks - Destroy Music Start Your Own Band - Medidation
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_49_-_JAN_20_2014.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:20am EDT |
Wed, 15 January 2014
Featuring these killer tunes: The Reatards - Get Real Stupid 7" - You Ain't Fun No Mo Angry Angles - CROWDS 7" - Crowds Lost Sounds - Rat Brains & Microchips - Blackcoats/Whitefear Final Solutions - Eye Don't Like You 7" - Eye Don't Like You Bad Times - Self-Titled - Streets Of Iron Terror Visions - World of Shit - Medicating Dreams Jay Reatard - Hammer I Miss You 7" - Hammer I Miss You Jay Reatard - Blood Visions - My Shadow Jay Reatard - 7" I Know Place Jay Reatard - See Saw/Screaming Hand 7" - Screaming Hand Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall - Faking It Potty Mouth - First Gear: Feminism in the Northeast - Damage Breadline - First Gear: Feminism in the Northeast - Peroxotine Death Paths - Clarion Call - Waves Holy Cobras - Dead Bodies Float in Space - Drugstore Heavy Chains - 7" - Liver Lips Old and Weird - Moon/Old and Weird - Lamp Kappa Chow - Kappa Chow - Bang Bang Monomyth - Craft Single - Trash Day
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_48_-_JAN_13_2014.wav.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:14am EDT |
Wed, 15 January 2014
Emmanuel and Travis contine the re-cap of 2013s best interviews and tunes!
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_47_-_DEC_30_2013.mp3.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:50am EDT |
Wed, 15 January 2014
Emmanuel and Travis highlight some of the best interviews and tunes from the first year of CITY SLANG!
Direct download: CITY_SLANG_-_EPISODE_46_-_DEC_23_2013.wav.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:46am EDT |