I'm thinking of starting a religion in which David Ortiz is the corporeal representation of the Deity. PS it's missing his walk-off homer from this evening. Just so you know. EDIT: Oh, here it is.

CAN I TALK ABOUT HOW CALEXICO IS COMING HERE IN SEPTEMBER WITHOUT SQUEALING AND CLAPPING MY HANDS IN DELIGHT? NO I CANNOT. Oh man this is the best thing ever ever ever to happen here. Ever. (Yes, I AM ignoring the fact that this means I will be here in September and my soul will be utterly destroyed ( Read more... )

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So I thought I'd rustle up all the versions of "Stagger Lee" we have around the house, in the spirit of my friend's show earlier today. Have you ever heard Nick Cave's rendition? Holy jesus that man has a filthy mouth. I mean, that's just in comparison to the other versions. I definitely had a moment of uncontrollable gaping as the song ended ( Read more... )

Do you have plans for tomorrow? A friend from school will be co-hosting a radio show Sunday July 16th from 1-2pm. She'll be playing some of the extant recordings of the many versions of the song "Frankie and Johnny," taken from The Southern Folklife Collection. If you read the short Wikipedia entry, you can see some of the awesome people who ( Read more... )

I wonder if there are any recorded instances of psychotic breaks due to Microsoft Office products? I can't imagine it's an isolated phenomenon, seeing as they operate according to no discernible rules of logic. Anyway.

1.  Johnny Cash - Five Feet High and Rising
2.  M. Ward - Poor Boy, Minor Key
3.  Belle & Sebastian - Beyond the Sunrise
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Okay, I just had to say this in defense of my football-loving friends. Dateline just did a segment on all the American sports writers discussing how borrring soccer is, as a way of explaining why most of America ignores the World Cup. Hello? Aren't these the same people that watch baseball? And golf? And televise spelling bees and scrabble ( Read more... )

My thesis is like a giant, nubbly, uneven ball of yarn; the tighter I try to wind it, the more it springs out of my fingers and explodes into tangential loops and tangles, and the cat is over there munching heartily on what used to be my results? I'm quickly losing my grasp on the English language. Fortunately, I keep thinking to myself that I ( Read more... )

I know that
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