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• Commented on The Year Before The Flood: an introduction
  "and travels often to New Orleans" is one of the weirder resume highlights I've heard. I read down further and saw he wrote a book about NO, which is worth noting, but I can't imagine giving me blogger cred as...
• Commented on Office Karaoke Video Makes Cubicle Life Fun
  how did Bridget Jones get in this video?...
• Commented on "Chap-Hop History" by Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer, played on a banjolele
  Rap has finally come back to the people who invented it -- Gilbert& Sullivan. Modern Major General anybody?...
• Commented on The Work Office: WPA-inspired participatory performance art
  Love me some alphabet soup. While conservative and liberal economists debate whether FDR's programs got us out of the depression faster/slower -- it always seemed we got more bang for our buck out of what we invested in -- as...
• Commented on Gallery of creepily retouched baby photos
  I think this link just got lawyered into non-existence ......
• Commented on Vegas uses computers to nab card counters
  Wasn't there a company that gave out free flights for yogurt bar boxes? And some guy figured out how to maximize the system. Legally. Did they take him into a back room, did they beat him up? Did they allow...
• Commented on Copyright vs. folk music
  This has been a dinner-party polemic of mine for years -- copyright kills the process of folk music -- which is building on and adapting the work of your forebearers....
• Commented on Stop Making Sense turns 25
  We had the "midwest" premiere of the film at our college film fest. Whatever that means. Pals rented out speakers and tweeters and all that to juice up the theater's sound system. Everyone in a college band was there that...
• Commented on Carl Sagan, spaced out on pot
  Jealous. So many stories like Sagan, my friends, etc., who enjoy pot. Me, not so much. But, I will fight for their right ......
• Commented on Executive compensation vs. the world
  What if this chart showed one of our salaries and then the number of third world folks who could live on it crouching below us? Personally, I think its nuts that a corporation pays someone this amount of money, but...
• Commented on Charles Bukowski's hatred of Mickey Mouse
  It doesn't have to be an either/or universe. There's room for Aline Kominsky-Crumb's "Bunch Plays with Herself" and Steamboat Willie. And seeing Sean Penn there makes me remember he was Bukowski's first choice for Barfly. Delicious to ponder ......
• Commented on The great punk poet Jim Carroll has died.
  Day and Night should have been a huge pop hit, it was my favorite song from Catholic Boy. Had a great guitar riff to open. Here's a beat-up version of it from Fridays (the show that launched Larry David) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq30WdtEsww...
• Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
  Hmmm, Al Franken does an amazing job at keeping the discourse civil and articulate -- and so the only thing we can argue and focus on is whether it's an "agry mob." Let's make that the argument, cuz it's winnable!...
• Commented on They Might Be Giants' awesome new kids' CD: HERE COMES SCIENCE!
  "I like the stories about Angels," and their song too. I sang "Angel" at a wedding ......
• Commented on If You Think You're Groovy: The amazing soul rock sound of P.P. Arnold
  Is it just me (and my speakers) -- I'm having probs hearing the lady sing?...
• Commented on Night Cars: gorgeous dreamlike picture book about the traffic below the bedroom
  I still remember visiting my cousin's apartment in Boston and staying up at night listening to the street noises, excited by the fact that not everbody had to go to bed at 10PM (like my small town) ......
• Commented on Appreciation for a forgotten typewriter
  Love our old typewriters -- as decoration....
• Commented on Alcatraz Island, a tourist attraction that exceeds all expectations
  Sometimes, when the rest of the world all likes something --you just might like it to! And you won't lose your hip status. I had the best time at Alacatraz, and I also recommend The Mansfield Pen in Mansfield, Ohio....
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  apparently the left and the right can agree on this one -- I just found this story in Hate-De-Jour Land titled "Activist Judge ..."...
• Commented on Drew Friedman print of Don Knotts as Barney Fife
  Did you know Knotts went to college with with Paul Dooley (Wimpy in Altman's Popeye, the dad in 16 Candles and Breaking Away)? They used to do sketches together ......
• Commented on Another misshapen frozen treat
  two girls, one popsicle -- zero steampunk ......
• Commented on Holiday Inn signs - now and then
  If you love old signs (like I do), make sure you hit up the Sign Museum in Cinci, Ohio. I was there this summer, and the guided tour by the owner is without peer ......
• Commented on Former French President says Bush invaded Iraq to thwart Gog and Magog's apocalyptic mission
  At #1 -- I thought these came from interviews with the French President. That would be fairly decent corrobaration, if he said these things in an interveiw. How can you corrobate private conversatoins between two heads of state? Is that...
• Commented on Bees swarm under bike seat: the thrilling conclusion
  What is up with the Bees? This is like a 70s movie. I had 8 dead bees inside my house yesterday....
• Commented on University prof wants to put drinking on the curriculum
  It's absurd that at 18 your old enough to drive a tank, and do just about all other adult things except run for President -- but you can't have a drink legally. College kids not allowed to drink? Stupid. However...
• Commented on Books by people who have raised apes in their homes
  Hey, to be fair to Doc Temerlin -- he adopted Lucy. She could be his Soon-Yi ......
• Commented on Video: Girl happily hula-hoops to a happy Geggy Tah track.
  Hey #4 -- that's the exact line I quoted to Tommy!...
• Commented on Juice company rips off Get Your War On
  what's sad is Get Your War On should have been an Adult Swim Cartoon ......
• Commented on Vladimir Nabokov discusses “Lolita"
  To #18 -- really? you think the CIA is driving force behind Lolita's continued place in our culture. And to Marcela at #2 -- really? You don't understand how a book's most famous opening line might lead people to the...
• Commented on Independent comic book artists draw Marvel's superheros
  Tony's best was "Batty" about the thoroughly-soused baseball reprobate ... found in the pages of MURTAUGH in the 90s ......