Good morning everyone,

Not sure if you all work the same way, but we've been building our momentum all week and now it's Thursday and we're really hitting our stride. Hope you can keep up, because from here on out it's one frenzied pitch to the weekend.

Our Soft Focus chat with Andrew WK wraps up with a little rudimentary genealogy, a brief, tantalizing discussion of the AWK "Larger Plan," and what everyone's been waiting for, the obligatory dissection of the meaning of "party." In Venezuela, Trace is given a crash course in the corrosive-heavy, toxic-discharge-generating process of distilling gold by miners in the outlying jungles of El Dorado (keep in mind this is the "environmentally friendly" method). And we're pleased to present a new installment of Epicly Later'd featuring shirtless LA dynamo Braydon Szafranski cruising up and down Melrose with Patrick O'Dell.

We've also got still yet another round of Dos and Don'ts and Friends, and there's also fresh readin' material to be found on the show pages, so be sure to check them out.

Have a happy Ides,
VBS