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Your result for Howard Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence Test…

Linguistic

31% Logical, 20% Spatial, 61% Linguistic, 18% Intrapersonal, 8% Interpersonal, 41% Musical, 16% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 39% Naturalistic!

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I’ve always thought that the patron saint of “clutch hitting is a myth” is not Bill James at all, but rather the author John Updiike. In his famous, “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” story about Ted Williams final game, he wrote:

“For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on a hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Baseball is a game of the long season, of relentless and gradual averaging-out. Irrelevance—since the reference point of most individual games is remote and statistical—always threatens its interest, which can be maintained not by the occasional heroics that sportswriters feed upon but by players who always care; who care, that is to say, about themselves and their art. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter’s myth, he is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.”

• Will #29 tawny kitaen be able to catch up with #28 norman mailer?
• Curious as to the interest in #58 (obama turban) but when you consider that it falls well behind #45 sasquatch festival, I may be able to sleep that much easier.
• But look out! He might be somali (#89)
• Larry Bird #33 is gary busey. LFO nowhere to be seen.
• rashomon kickin’ in at #90 is nice to see

Every day there are countless factual errors in your newspaper. I forgive most every one–it’s surely hard work to meet a deadline day in and day out. Every day there are also a handful of cringeworthy efforts at cleverness. These gratuitous wastes of ink are, with rare exception, less forgivable. And when these cloying turds are combined with errors, I feel it my duty to ask you to, please, knock it the fuck off.

You could have been cute by saying something something about “moving the decimal point a few notches to the left” but, no, you had to bring the square root into the equation. (See that, clever pun, eh?). But rest assured, the square root of 1% is 10%, so, good sir, you fail in this sentence: “But for decades he struggled to reach enough people, even though he lowered the necessary figure to the square root of 1 percent. ”

No transcendence for you.

PS: while we’re on the subject of square roots, I dust off my favorite math joke:

Q: What’s the square root of 69?

A: Ate something.

It also has to do with the fact that I find history so much more interesting now than I did as a child. Youth is wasted on the young I suppose.

It was intriguing to learn that the Upper East Side of Manhattan was replete with coal-belching locomotives in the late 20th Century, and fun to be reminded that the man who founded my alma mater was one of the original robber barons.

Most compelling, though, was the ramifications of a fatal mishap in 1902, that was likely inevitable given the congestion of heavy steel running into the old terminal. The deaths led to a public outcry over safety, which fanned the dissent over the pollution spit out by the coal engines. The New York legislature acted quickly to ban coal engines’ entry into New York City, and forced the majors to go electric or to die. They went electric, and the new beautiful Grand Central was born, and the train service was never disrupted in the process.

I was amazed to see how quickly the captains of industry were forced to modify their bread and butter in the name of the public welfare–such a stark contrast to the tepid environmental regulations that have slodged through Congress in more recent history. One of the show’s historians said that it was useless for them to resist the teeming public sentiment, the socialist and populism clamor was a force too large to be reckoned with, and the railroad was lucky to get out with what it got.

This made me feel a bit envious, I’ll admit. Not since that gilded age have the wealthy and elite been so far removed from the rest of society as they are in this part of the 21st century. But where is our public outrage, our populist movement, and where is our yellow journalism calling for reform? Have the Rupert Murdochs simply done better than their forebears by convincing 5 x more Americans to pay more attention to last night’s American Idol than to its Super Tuesday results? Why is it that slightly better than half the voters, far from outraged or disgusted, buy into the notion that the free market will sort it all out?

Beats me. All I know is that this righteous indignation has made me hungry. I’m off to lunch at Grand Central, with other yuppies who get paid well doing the Man’s dirty work.

Spoiler Alert!! Not to be found in this list: Guns N Roses, AC/DC, Michael Jackson, Replacements, Eric B. & Rakim, Bruce Springsteen, or Bob Goulet! But for serious, this list may have pissed me off more than any other list in the history of the internet. That’s how feeble I am.

Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland (1968): Nope. Are You Experienced (+ BMG’s Greatest Hits)
Fela Kuti – Music is the Weapon (1999)
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (1975): Nein. I think I’m all set with my Napster-era copy of “Autobahn”.
Janet Jackson – Damita Jo (2004): I’m going to stop saying “no” unless otherwise appropriate
Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou – Éthiopiques 21 (2006)
Various Artists – American Primitive Vol II: Compilations? Questionable. Why not “Freedom Rock”, then?
Palace Brothers – Palace Brothers (1994)
The Shangri-Las – Teen Anguish Vol II (1980)
John Betjeman – Betjeman’s Banana Blush (1974)
Beyonc̩ РB-Day Deluxe Edition (2007)
Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill (1986): My first “yes”. On Wax & CD both.
The Impressions – Definitive Impressions Vol 1 (2002)
Various Artists – The Soundtrack to Rushmore (1999): Yes, though I still think this list is double-dirty for including compilations. Still my favorite W. Anderson movie (after Bottle Rockets – which likely is getting by for sentimental reasons).
Ghostface Killah – Iron Man (1996)
Minor Threat – The Complete Discography (1989)
Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II (1984)
Neil Young – On The Beach (1974)
Captain Beefheart – Clear Spot (1972)
Prinzhorn Dance School – Prinzhorn Dance School (2007)
Various Artists – The Forgotten Guitars of Mozambique 1955,56,57 (2003)
Moondog – Moondog 1&2 (1969/1970)
Aphex Twin – Richard D. James Album (1996)
Lee Perry – The Upsetter Boxed Set (1972/1974)
Cymande – Best of Cymande (1992)
The Specials – The Specials (1979)
Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner (2003): WTF?
Karen Dalton – It’s So Hard To Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best (1969)
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way (1969)
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Barafundle (1997)
Radiohead – OK Computer (1997)
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (1970)
Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way Baby (1998)
Logh – Every Time a Bell Rings an Angel Gets His Wings (2002)
The Divine Comedy – Promenade (1994)
Neil Young – Harvest (1972): My 2nd “yes”. Neil Young shows up 2x before The Beatles or Led Zeppelin for those “scoring” at “home”.
Ulrich Schnauss – Far Away Trains Passing By (2001)
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (1986)
P.J. Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (2000)
Portishead – Dummy (1994): My 3rd “Yes”. I like this a lot, but I don’t think it would make my top 120. I’m really beginning to wonder, why they chose the “pop” designation for this list.
Goldfrapp – Supernature (2005)
Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure (1974)
Johnny Cash – American III (2000)
The Killers – Hot Fuss (2004). Did I mention there is no Depeche Mode on this list?
Moby – Play (1999)
Pet Shop Boys – Very (1993)
Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love (1985)
REM – Automatic For The People (1992). Yes. But, really. Why are you still reading this?
Led Zeppelin – IV (1971). Yes. Finally. Does anybody not own this album?
Velvet Underground and Nico – ‘Banana album’ (1967). And boom goes the dynamite. (Yes).
Massive Attack – Mezzanine (1998)
Love – Forever Changes (1967)
Underworld – Beaucoup Fish (1999)
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing (1996). Yes & Yes again. Truly an essential album.
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express (1977)
Human League – Dare (1981)
Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). Yes. Duh.
Aphrodite – Aftershock (2002)
David Bowie – Hunky Dory (1971)
Tindersticks – Second Album (1995)
Bob Dylan – Shot of Love (1981)
Japan – Tin Drum (1981)
Brian Eno – Another Green World (1975)
Magazine – The Correct Use of Soap (1980)
The Velvet Underground – 1969 (1974)
Bj̦rk РDebut (1993): Yes.
The B52’s – The B52’s (1979)
Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica (1969)
Television – Marquee Moon (1977)
Neil Young – On The Beach (1974). For the second time. This must be the greatest record ever made.
Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard (1957)
Family – Music in a Doll’s House (1968)
Todd Rundgren – Todd (1974)
Morrissey – Viva Hate (1988)
Talk Talk – Laughing Stock (1991)
Cat Power – The Greatest (2006): Yes.
This Heat – This Heat (1978)
Murcof – Martes (2002)
Groundhogs – Split (1971)
Richard and Linda Thompson – I Wanna See The Bright Lights Tonight (1974)
Kevin Coyne – Marjory Razorblade (1973)
Roy Harper – Stormcock (1971)
Soft Machine – Third (1970)
Van Der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts (1971)
Aimee Mann – Bachelor Number 2 (2000)
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra (1974)
Billy Fury – Sound of Fury (1960)
The Rutles – the Rutles (1978)
Public Image – Metal Box (1979)
Joy Division – Closer (1980): Yes.
Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966): Yes.
The Beatles – The Beatles (1968)
The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet (1968)
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks (1969)
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II (1969): Yes
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975): Yes.
The Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks (1977)
Nirvana – Nevermind (1991)
The White Stripes – Elephant (2002)