Extra, Extra: Miller’s Bixi, Pants’ Place, and Sex Bob-omb’s “Summertime”

By David Topping

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

David Miller and his Bixi bike. Still from Miller’s message to cyclist Michael Barry.

• Mayor David Miller’s got a Bixi bike, all fancy-like. Miller showed off his bike—one just like those Torontonians will soon be able to rent themselves—in a video congratulating cyclist Michael Barry for making it to the Tour de France. (Miller boasts about the “Tour de Toronto” he’s planning.) Meanwhile, there’s a Bixi party on July 28. [via I Bike T.O.]
• Today, in disappointing headlines: “Rare meteorite lands at ROM.”
• Eye‘s My Place feature, usually the stuff of artists and musicians and other young folks with cool jobs, takes a peek inside Joe Pantalone’s house. Don’t you want to see Rob Ford’s next?
• And Beck—or is it Sex Bob-omb’s?—super-distorted new song “Summertime,” from the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World soundtrack, is playing over at Stereogum.

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