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With summer flings in full swoon this summer, you might need a means to test the veracity of your lover.  Fortunately there is in fact a machine that will scientifically measure the strength of your love, the Love Tester.  As demonstrated in the above video by yours truly, the Love Tester was also used by fellow Highway 61 contributor Lauren “Hot Stuff” Reid (check out her video on youtube).

This amusement machine is among many others at Happy Joe’s family restaurant (see more with FlickR photos here), which wouldn’t be a bad place for a date with your summer fling.  In fact, Happy Joe’s is just one of many popular pizza parlors in this slice of St Louis County, including my old favorite Fortel’s Pizza Den.  And if your date is on a diet, just remind them that the games are ”harmless” (heh).

While summer vacation beckons for me, there is yet a week’s worth of material I must digest for the civic minded folk of St. Louis.  This weekly feature, which will indeed catch up with it’s original Sunday morning regularity (eventually), should perk up your ordinarily haphazard repertoire of websites.

• Remember our surprise on being included alongside some of our favorite “other sources” across town?  Imagine that doubled being name dropped by our friend @ A to Z blog (that’s one of the RFT’s blogs ya know).  We were just glad to see my notoriously out-of-focus, no-flash photography be conductive to a news post of our own, much less earn us recognition.  Then it helped us make some new friends, and meet some other friends.  Check out the new and separate “Listening to…” blogroll for more details.
• Speaking of out of focus photos, we’d be amiss to ignore our friends on FlickR, since so many of them seem to forget their cameras when we bring ours.  We’re pretty lucky to have snagged some photos before other FlickR members, but it’s not as if  dibs must be called.  Frankly we’d link you all, except everyone of us seems to document something in particular (mine is pay phones).
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Congratulations to the lucky winner of a physical copy of the mixtape (see above video for results).  Thanks again to everyone who tried out our “Summer in the City” mixtape for the past two weeks.  By now the tape should have taken you well into summer, so stay tuned to our Last.fm group for another mixtape coming out in the next couple of weeks.