Pinko Culture Overload: rocker Andrew Bird, This American Life, comic book artist Chris Ware. Apart, there's at least one you hate. Smashed together? A wonderful, 3.5 minute video concerning a mouse and a mousehead.

Dear magazine writers: Just because you love a super-cool independent musician usually isn't a very good reason to commission a profile of that super-cool independent musician to appear in your mass-market consumer magazine.

A tipster alerts us to an incident involving Andrew Bird (whose great new record, Armchair Apocrypha, is a frequent presence on the office soundsystem) during a secret show last night at Brooklyn's Union Hall: