Sunday Edition: December 4, 2011

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer
and I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• After raising an impressive amount of $80,000 through Kickstarter for their new record, Five Iron Frenzy shattered that number by reaching a whopping $150,000 in pledges.
• NOFX's Fat Mike supported the 99% by closing his Bank of America account and asked Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba to join him for a performance at Occupy LA.
• Blink 182's Travis Barker was invited to have a meeting with the LAPD after complaining about their previous meeting.
• The Riot Before announced the somber news that they have decided to call it a day.
• Tom Gabel made a brief announcement via his twitter that Against Me! have begun working on their first album for their own label, Total Treble Music.
• .The Lawrence Arms announced a few dates for their upcoming "tour".
• A Toronto restaurant has a logo eerily similar to that of the iconic Black Flag logo.

With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.