"There's something inherently awesome about milk ..."

Especially if it's on Amazon.

Much like milk itself, I expect that link to expire eventually.

Last night was a production night at the Sheaf, but it was also the night the Sheaf got four free tickets and one photo pass to the Red Hot Chili Peppers show. I sat with our arts editor pretty much parallel to the front of the stage. A half-hour before the band went on, we got the idea that we should run a Chili Peppers photo on the cover -- heck, we had another four hours until we had to get the paper to the printers; that's plenty of time! Despite the lack of a cellphone signal, we somehow got the attention of our photo editor, who was standing right of the front of the stage. He communicated that he was allowed to take photos for only the first three songs. Perfect, said the arts editor and I; we didn't want to stay much past that. (You'd be amazed how easy it is to leave a show when your $70 tickets were free.) As soon as we saw our photographer get shooed away by security at the start of the fourth song, we left our seats and met him near the exit. A mad dash to the office ensued, during which our photo guy browsed through the 390 pictures he took that night. We didn't run into any problems until 1:30am, and that was an MP, not a YP: it was an issue with keeping the colors CMYK and not downsampling the images when converting the InDesign document to PDF (we were using our new layout computer for the first time, dontcha know). Oh, there was also a problem with Distiller not sending the PDFs to the correct output folder, but that was really technical and probably not interesting to you.

Also not interesting? The Red Hot Chili Peppers. I probably didn't have to tell you that, though. I felt like I was attending the MTV Video Music Awards inside a Virgin Megastore. But free is free. Also, a 17-year-old girl from the boonies bought me a beer, so the evening was doubly adequate.