Mike Dreese is the cofounder of Newbury Comics. If you live in New England, you more than likely have heard of this small chain of stores, if you don’t already buy all your cds there regularly. They’ve been around for a long time and are a boon to the local music scene. In the weekly Newbury Comics Newsletter, Mike has written a statement on the recent events concerning the liquidation of Tower Records and the impending closure of the massive Virgin MegaStore at BackBay in Boston.

Newbury Comics has separated itself by not just offering competitively priced music, but also comic books, magazines, toys and much more. They have carved out a niche in a very competitive market that now includes the likes of Best Buy and Wal-mart.

Support your local music stores, kids.

www.TransformersMovie.com is running a contest to vote on a single line of fan-submitted dialog to appear in the 2007 Transformers movie, to be spoken by Autobot Leader Optimus Prime.

Proving once again you can’t trust INTER-NET to do anything, here are some highlights from the list–

• “I can’t explain the flames, they’re just cool”
• “These pretzels are making me thirsty”
• “Do a barrel roll”
• “Its clobberin’ time”
• “I’ll be back”