Power Rankings: Still More Geography, This Time Through the Lens of Music [sic]

Posted on July 31, 2007 - Filed Under

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This list started as my best live music shows ever list, which got too long too fast. So I decided to limit it to one show per venue, but even that was hard to manage. Throwing my hands in the air, I limited the criteria to one per State. Highlighted are the [...]

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Built To Spill @ The Slowdown

Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under

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BTS will be coming my way in a bit, but via lazy-i, you can get a bootleg of their recent Omaha show.

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Power Rankings: More Geography

Posted on July 27, 2007 - Filed Under

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Top 25 cities, criteria: I tied one on there.
1. NYC–not just because of Interpol and notwithstanding Interpol, I shall forever sing the praises of my wife’s hometown. The bars are open till 4, the dealers come to your home, and you can find indonesian food and banjo-infused klezmer jazz on a random Tuesday [...]

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my favorite jam back in the day was…

Posted on July 25, 2007 - Filed Under

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Ignatius P. for president?

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the real heroes…

Posted on July 25, 2007 - Filed Under

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…underwear actors:
“Naturally, when you hear an explosion, you think the worst,” Von Jones said. Nevertheless, he hurried back to work. “We’re Fruit of the Loom — we’ve got to make this commercial.”

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Power Ranking, this time geography

Posted on July 24, 2007 - Filed Under

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With my best man now in Portland and a friend now in Alaska, there is an even-money chance of my having visited all 50 states by the end of W’s reign of terror. Being in a list-making mood of late [foreshadowing], I thought it’d be a good opportunity to compile a list of my [...]

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Non Sequitur of the Day

Posted on July 24, 2007 - Filed Under

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So that Barry Bonds, eh? cough–balco-cough… Hope he hits one soon. Get this all over with. And Selig, boy he’s sure a jerk. Won’t even flyout to SFO this week. (speaking of flying “is there a rule that Americans have to wear shorts and clogs on airplanes? Are [...]

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chicken|egg - Power Rankings Edition

Posted on July 19, 2007 - Filed Under

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Do I like Britt Daniel because he sounds like Billy Joel?
Do I like Billy Joel because he sounds like Britt Daniel?
while I ponder that, On to the Power Rankings!

5 favorite records from high school (as of today):
1. ATCQ - The Low End Theory
2. Ice Cube - Amerikkka’s Most Wanted
3. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II [...]

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where was i again?

Posted on July 19, 2007 - Filed Under

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In the last couple of years, I’ve started a few books that I was thoroughly enjoying but for various reasons1 I did not finish. Of these, there are 3 that I am going to try and finish. In sequence of the amount I was enjoying them when last put down:

The Recognitions
Underworld
Infinite Jest

I am pretty sure [...]

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OTT…NOT / Power Rankings: Hated Cross Words

Posted on July 9, 2007 - Filed Under

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“OTT”, “ALAI” not NY Times top 300 crossword answers.

So while we’re at it, I’ll throw in my top 5 most hated crosswords (as of right now):

ETE
ERNE
OLLA
ERLE 1
ERAT

Though to be honest, I can’t get terribly worked up over 4-letter crosswords … I guess familiarity breeds contempt after all.
1Not sure why, some of my happiest afternoons were [...]

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