The show opens this Friday at Webb Gallery in Waxahachie, Texas with a reception featuring music by Darktown Strutters and Wild in the Streets.

Photography: Aforementioned Tiny Showcase artwork photographer, Kevin Trimmer, just launched his new wedding photography site. I just saw myself in a few of the photos and I do not look good - almost as if I had been sitting in front of an open bar all day long at the time the photo was taken. The bride and groom look stellar though.

Comedy: The Onion AV Club interviews Aziz Ansari (love the portion on Food Club); Fresh Air interviews him as well. There were portions of the Fresh Air interview that had me laughing uncontrollably.

Food: Williams-Sonoma's Pizza Sticks Pan & Cutter.

Music (they play Providence in March):

Lilli's 2009 release Nine Ways to Disappear should be available for purchase at your local high-class bookatorium, as well as low-class dives like this Amazon place my nephew keeps talking about. Same goes for her 2008 release, The Lagoon, published by our buddies over at Fantagraphics.

I've Been To Europe, "New Factual Paintings" by Jay Ryan. The show opens this evening at Rotofugi in Chicago with music by DJ Carrie Weston.

Weekend listening: Midlake's The Courage Of Others.

The bottle design probably outweighs the taste but we still sort of want to try it: Bärenjäger Honey Liqueur.

When you have a second to take a break from hitting REFRESH on the donation total, swing on by Josh's portfolio site for a look at his latest works. Fragment, his collection of recent paintings, is currently open at Jonathan Levine in New York (along with the work of fellow Tiny contributor Saelee Oh). For those of you who refuse to visit the Northeast during Winter months, you can get a peek at the show right here. All others are required to go and see his work in person.

"Peers of the Spheres," a brand new two-color hand-printed screenprint by our friend Alec Thibodeau.

Neat photos of two of my favorite olde-timey coin-operated technologies: The Blue Hour's photos of a house filled with vintage jukeboxes and Popular Mechanics' 11 Things You Didn't Know About Pinball History.

George Nelson's flip clock, designed for the Howard Miller Clock Company.

Weekend listening: Reigning Sound's Love and Curses; The Fresh & Onlys' self titled (thank Little Friends for getting "Peacock and Wing" lodged in our brains); Spoon's Transference.

You can catch Mark's work on his portfolio site and at Billy Shire Fine Arts in Culver City. His exhibition JUGGERNAUT runs through February 6.

We're out for the weekend but we will be back next week with what I would describe as "a staggeringly beautiful and technically wondrous five-color letterpress print." I understand that it sounds a bit biased and perhaps even a lot pompous to say such glowing things about a piece of artwork Tiny Showcase has helped produce but if you join us on Tuesday (might I recommend signing up for our mailing list?) I have no doubt that you will wholeheartedly agree.

Shane Dixon Kavanaugh's post on the NY Times Lens blog about the abandoned drive-in photographs of Carl Weese: "Dark Screens, Bright Memories."

Later duuuuuuudes.

What I'm not watching in waking life I'm making up for in my sleep. Last night's deleted footage included a scene in which I talked down gun-wielding Michael and Jack as they argued over another half-baked excursion into the jungle. Tempers flared, sweat beaded, no one was shot. The last thing I remember before the alarm sounded is walking hand in hand with Sawyer away from an underground skate park we had discovered in the catacombs an abandoned university. As he took my hand and we walked into the duskiness, I felt an immense feeling of security and asked if I could meet his daughters. He was touched, of course I could.

Tonight we launch yet another scathingly untouchable work of art by an artist you're bound to feel an affinity towards. Seriously. We don't make this stuff up, we just publish it. So you have, like, seven minutes to sign up for the sneak peek email. Otherwise, join us in celebrating all that is cozy tonight at 7:30pm EST.

Our friend Cyrus Highsmith of Font Bureau speaks to Design Madison in Wisconsin on Thursday, January 14th. Are you in Wisconsin? I was for one night in some town close to the border of Minnesota, underage and NOT drinking after a battle with the bartender in a super strange club where someone's friend was DJing, mostly Pavement, all night.

AHHHHHHH'M / NOT STANDIN HERE / I hear that famous song / I feel I can't be wrong
The new Spoon album Transference launches on the 19th and is currently streamable on NPR. Besides the one or two more immediately infectious tracks, Tiny Showcase agrees that it's attempting to grow on us.

oh what am I / just a body in yr bed / oh won't you reach / for the body in yr bed
The new Thao + The Get Down Stay Down album Know Better Learn Faster is simultaneously enhancing my inclination to shimmy as well as my inclination to feel something.

Im too loyal / and too focused / to be losing / and be hopeless
And lastly, Young Money's Bedrock is looping in my head like an unrelenting nightmare. Is this video for real? I guess rappers gotta wear glasses, too. Some of the scantily clad girls have some chub on their bellies, which is nice, but I'm not going to call it a breakthrough, although I will call it adorable.

1. Stream Spoon's new album, Transference, in its entirety.

2. You'll take away the biggest part of me: