In addition to our shared affinity for local restaurants, we Doctors of Za are also staunch proponents of the local music scene. But when Gilead Media mailed me a press pack and CD of Milwaukee hardcore outfit Get Rad yesterday, I didn’t know quite why. I mean, I was glad to get the album 1. For free, 2. A day before tonight’s CD release show at Bay View Brew Haus… but the glut of my freelance work falls into the realms of local dining reviews, concert recaps, and professional baseball or arena football profiles. And sometimes I’ll slap on a moniker to write borderline offensive things pertaining to pizza. So why me?

But when I heard Get Rad’s masterpiece “Drug of Choice”, I understood. Spanning just over a minute, it wasted no time striking a chord deep within me. It’s nothing short of scripture. I’d like to share it with you.
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Pizza transcends the realm of food. More than any other edible, it’s malleable and accessible to a number of genres: Humor, adventure and song, to name just a few. Think about it, have you ever heard a song about a lollipop or watched a Saturday Night Live skit based around Sloppy Joe’s?

Oh. You have? Well, fuck it, pizza is still better. As I prepare my gunt for a Fox Cities pizza-eating marathon this Thanksgiving weekend, I’m taking a temporary step back from reviews this week to, instead, post some of the kind-of funny, moderately entertaining and/or semi-sing-along-able pizza-related videos on the Web to tide you over during this short week.
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