I usually get annoyed as all get-out when I have to deal with the panhandle-music performances happening at any given time in the NYC subway system. Call me a Negative Nancy, but when you're in an underground station, the acoustics are horrid and the music bounces off the walls infinitely, and after a long day, it's not amusing ( Read more... )

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So, Christmas is upon us, warm lovely feelings, etc etc, and then I check BBS news and I see this ( Read more... )

This is probably old news to all you hardcores out there, but I just made this correlation last night.

Ryuichi Sakamoto is awesome. I've had an MP3 of one of his songs for years, called Tong Poo. Here's a vid:

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Love that Mr. Rogers-like beginning. Very lively ( Read more... )

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Sorry if you've already seen this. But I find a special connection to it because I WAS WATCHING THE PARADE LIVE (on TV) WHEN THIS HAPPENED. I had to double-take and then I laughed my butt off.

You know, for a place the claims that its economy is in the deep nether regions of a poop-encrusted toilet, it certainly doesn't act like that's the case ( Read more... )

I was surfing the NY Times website and found this ad:


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I haven't believed that democracy really existed for the past eight years. Last night discredited all that.

America, you rock! Now I just hope that Obama wasn't lying when he promised all those nice things.

The JFK airport has the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.

An automatic "snack" machine but instead of selling "snacks" it sells Ipods and video games.

Not making this up.

BS is clearly recession-proof.

You are a
Social Liberal
(71% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(18% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Socialist

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