Paul Lukas has made it his life’s mission to chronicle every bit of minutia about sports attire, both on his UNI WATCH blog and his weekly column of the same name on Page 2 of ESPN.COM. But now PITCHFORK MEDIA is reporting that Lukas will be living the rock and roll lifestyle, as he opens for noted indie rock band The Magnetic Fields on a couple of Midwest tour dates this fall.

But Lukas isn’t living out some sort of Rock Bottom Remainders writer-turned-lousy rocker fantasy - Lukas isn’t going to be doing anything musical at all. He’s just going to be giving a PowerPoint on…something. Maybe it will be sports-related, and maybe not. As the man himself says on his blog:

My topic might be trade magazines (my topic at that Union Hall show), or it might be one of the other things I’ve presented lately, like the design evolution of butchery charts or the cultural history of the baseball cap. Or it might be something else entirely. I’m still deciding.

But you’ll be getting two PowerPoints for the price of one: Lukas is billed as the Forewards, along with the creator of NOT FOOLING ANYBODY, which looks at old fast food buildings badly converted into other eateries. Her topic will be slightly more common sense given her site: old fast food buildings badly converted into other eateries.

To me, nothing says “rock and roll” like a good PowerPoint presentation. I remember back in 1987 when CEMENT MIXER MONTHLY editor Herbert Sullivan gave his “A Brief History of the Cement Mixer” presentation as the opening act to Rush - now there was a great show. Of course I got so high that I couldn’t even see the screen by the time he reached “The 1940s: Cement Mixers at War.”

This rock & roll/blogger collaboration thing might have some legs: I have heard several unconfirmed reports that Motley Crue has contacted Brooks himself to be a part of their upcoming tour. Specifically, what they asked was if any of the SbB Girls were available to dance on stage, but that counts, right?