Punk vocalist Alice Bag has brought her late 70’s/early 80’s L.A. scrapbook to Flickr, and it’s full of fierce women and gorgeous style: shots of the Bags in performance, the fabulously New Romantic post-punk pix, and an adorable pre-punk set where a young Patricia Morrison can be glimpsed in 70’s hair and a Rocky Horror t-shirt.

A Bethesda establishment called the Evil Olive piqued the interest of residents of a nearby nursing home. Turns out it’s a biker bar, and the residents, aged 65 through 97, got decked out for a warmly-received visit. “Kaplan, who is wheelchair bound and admittedly extremely overweight, was disappointed when she first arrived at the club because there were stairs by the entrance. ‘I said, We’re not going to make it,’ Kaplan said. ‘Then before I knew it a group of bikers came and grabbed my wheelchair. All I saw was my head being tipped back and my feet were up in the air and they had me in the club.’” It was too cold to hop on the bikes, but plans for a spring ride are in the works. (via Jezebel)

The NYT reports on the “YouDesign” trend of crowdsourced catalogs.

So how’s Danny Elfman’s work on the new Alice in Wonderland soundtrack? Clips from all 24 tracks can be streamed here. (from the Playlist, via Pajiba)

The Canadian women’s hockey team celebrated their gold medal win with stogies, booze, and honking the horn on the ice surfacing machine. They were then forced to apologize for celebrating the hell out of a once-in-a-lifetime-if-you’re-very-very-lucky moment. The International Olympic Committee says it’s going to investigate whether their celebratory behavior was “harmful to the image of the players and ice hockey in general.” Because gods forbid you act like an ecstatic human being when you achieve something momentous. What bullshit. (Pandagon)

And speaking of the Olympics, TLo have taken a break from their reality show recapping to rip on the ice-skating costumes. Here’s the men, here’s the women, here’s the couples, all howlingly awful.

Usefulness: Paperback Swap is an online book exchange where you upload the ISBN’s of stuff you don’t want anymore, someone snags it from you, and you accumulate points to snag stuff from other people. I just meant to clean out my closet and grab a couple Clive Barkers when I first signed up a couple years ago – I’ve since gotten about 60 books, including Re/Search’s Angry Women, a hardback of Patrick Nagel’s artwork, and some additions to my Storm Constantine collection. You can also sign up for notifications when somebody posts a book you want, so it’s a good place to store a literary wishlist. As always, it’s best to search on what you’re looking for first to see if it’s a good fit, but there’s a lot more there than just remainder-marked bestsellers.