though he never played in pawtuckett….

Posted on September 27, 2007 - Filed Under

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Ladies and Gentlemen, submit your Barry Bonds limerick to the SF Chronicle and win $50 CASH MONEY!
A quick scan through the entries already online shows some slim pickin’s. Common offense are (1) a lack of creativity and (2) ignorance of the limerick form:
Cincy is red,
Dodgers are blue,
Intentional walks mean
“We know what you do”.
and
Barry Barry [...]

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If Bill O’Reilly were a rapper

Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under

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…you know he’d go by “B. Ill”. Jay gives us a sample of his hypothetical flow.

Makes me want to listen [MP3] to The Coup doing the same1 with David Rockefeller, JP Getty and Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Davey D has David Banner, Master P., and Mike Dyson’s opening comments on the hill.
powered by ODEO
guess we’re still talking [...]

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loud & you can’t dance to it

Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under

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Hans Keller with Pink Floyd on youtube

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it’s all a mystery

Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under

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It’s nothing new that we get older in doses, but damn — Yoshimi is 5 years old?
Anyway. Today’s song: The Flaming Lips - Flight Test [MP3]

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big day of random

Posted on September 20, 2007 - Filed Under

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Looking at my last.fm, suspicions were confirmed — I’ve been listening to the same stuff a lot (I’m looking at you hold steady). So today, I’ve plugged my ipod into my laptop and am shuffling my entire collection. I expect to hear a lot of bad music and previously unheard songs. If you care to [...]

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another 10 at 10

Posted on September 18, 2007 - Filed Under

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Since I don’t see the AV Club calling me anytime soon, I’ll give myself the random rules treatment. (I’ve skipped past the Louis L’Amour adio books and any thing by Kruder & Dorfmeister). Join me in counting down 10 random songs as spit out of trusty, rusty WinAmp. I’ve even gone back an you-tubed it [...]

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Lousy Democrats

Posted on September 18, 2007 - Filed Under

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Today’s Times provides some tasty tidbits – some might even say non sequiturs – on the margins of Dr. Jonathan Haidt’s (pronounced height) theory of the evolution of innate moral principles.
“Imagine visiting a town,” Dr. Haidt writes, “where people wear no clothes, never bathe, have sex ‘doggie style’ in public, and eat raw meat by [...]

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From a distance…

Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under

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…I continue to love Ernie Chambers:
(09-17) 16:15 PDT Lincoln, Neb. (AP) –
Fed up with the threats, tired of natural disasters, the state’s longest-serving state senator is using his legal muscle against who he says is the culprit — God. State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued the Almighty in Douglas County District Court last week.
Chambers, [...]

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50/Kanye alternative

Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under

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Got some money burning a hole and can’t (don’t want to) decide between Kanye/50? Jay of hiphopmusic.com has some alternatives:

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David Leavitt in Berkeley (and San Francisco)

Posted on September 16, 2007 - Filed Under

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UPDATE: I see he’ll also be in San Francisco on Tuesday, September 18th.
My interest has been piqued for David Levitt’s The Indian Clerk after a week of coverage at The Elegant Variation. I don’t think I’ll be able to make it, unfortunately. Now I’ll just have to wait for the paperback.
Monday, September 17, 7:00 PM [...]

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playlistering

Posted on September 16, 2007 - Filed Under

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playing around this online play-lister I found over at luxlotus

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What are we talking bout?

Posted on September 14, 2007 - Filed Under

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Frank Zappa’s talking about words.

via (wordie:errata)
cue the obligatory Allen Iverson.

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Claim Jumping

Posted on September 14, 2007 - Filed Under

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The Manhattan icon of the hot dog cart is an anachronism. Ignatius J. Reilly would find it even more tragic here, because the business model has morphed itself into all manners of foodstuffs, most of which outshine soupy weiners. Halal is presently king of New York, but you can find find much more [...]

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Things I wish I wrote, episode 1

Posted on September 10, 2007 - Filed Under

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The Onion: Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8
“Coming in at an exhausting 7,000 years long, music is weighed down by a few too many mid- tempo tunes, most notably ‘Liebesträume No. 3 in A flat’ by Franz Liszt and ‘Closing Time’ by ’90s alt-rock group Semisonic,” Schreiber wrote. “In the end, though music can be brilliant at [...]

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i am i remix

Posted on September 10, 2007 - Filed Under

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At apophenia “pointer remixing“:
We craft our identity through pointing all the time. Language is mostly about pointers (”signs”). The list of favorite TV shows, movies, and music on social network sites are a linguistic pointer to these cultural referents. Yet, in a multimedia world, instead of having to just reference them by name, I can [...]

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Merv Griffin’s Crosswords?

Posted on September 9, 2007 - Filed Under

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Apparently the target demographic for Merv Griffin’s Crosswords is the same as Sunday Night Football viewers. Who knew? This is the first I’d heard of it and just set up a Tivo season pass for the new game show (premiering tomorrow). I don’t have very high expectations for this show. just. doesn’t. feel. right.
But I’ll [...]

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blogging and drinkin on a tuesday night

Posted on September 8, 2007 - Filed Under

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for the record, i am liking the new bloglines beta.

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rules, random

Posted on September 7, 2007 - Filed Under

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hearing Coltrane on the bus in KC

Okkervil River at The Independent in San Francisco playing the alternate version of Our Life Is Not A Movie, or Maybe that Conan O’Brien BANNED.

George Saunders talking Twain at maudnewton.com:
MN: You’re stranded on a desert island and for entertainment you’re allowed only twigs, stones, native birds and rodents, and [...]

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Violation of the 4th Geneva Convention

Posted on September 7, 2007 - Filed Under

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Arrested Development inspired a strong fondness for Will Arnett. And the A-Holes for Kristen Wiig. So after reading an unflattering review in the Times this morning, I posed the question: what would it take for me not to see The Brothers Solomon. Well, weighing in at 6% at Rotten Tomatoes comes mighty [...]

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