Yeah … the Williams Street County Fair and Expo in particular. If the image didn’t give it away—which it certainly should have, to the initiated—the name of Williams Street will be familiar to fans of Adult Swim.

Much like the Seinfeld bus last month or Dethklok’s concert last year, the major television networks are continuing in their campaign for more viewers by offering college students free stuff. Who are we to argue?

We’re still not sure what—exactly—the fair entails, but there are hints in the interwebz: read more »

 

 At around 7 p.m. tonight, we met a huge snake of people that stretched all the way across Upper Sproul Plaza and into the dark abyss beyond Sather Gate. The Clog was immediately intrigued. There was also enough alternative fashionistas in the line to make us think, “OK, Hot Topic must be having a sale.”But we were wrong. The punk-tastic queue actually began at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union–not Telegraph Avenue. When we asked someone what the heck was happening, they pointed at a poster that we’ve seen everywhere but have pretty much ignored. Apparently, the heavy metal stylings of …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead and the Gorillaz-esque animated group Dethklok joined forces tonight to put on a free concert in the Pauley Ballroom. (Thank you, Adult Swim.) We should have known!What can we say? The ad campaign’s dark, fiery poster aesthetic was an automatic turnoff for our cutesy, pop-loving minds. Additionally, both bands have a variation of “death” in their name–not cute. If it was still the Day of the Dead, maybe we’d be feelin’ it.We just hope that the bands left their Berkeley fans with a Trail of Good Times and that there wasn’t a huge Trail of People Who Got Turned Away At the Door After Pauley Ballroom Was Filled To Capacity. That always sucks.Dethklok [MySpace]Trail of Dead [MySpace]