Damn. Just...damn.

An American artist. No guilt. And not even amateur hour accompn'ment can diminish her presence.

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For accidentally reminding me that:

• the men who own the city make more sense than we do, and those with good cars need no justification.
• every want rebounds from a perfect curve.
• guitars like tanks rolling over barbed wire mixed with Chic bass lines worked because:
  • nobody doesn't like Sara Lee.
• Andy Gill attempting half-assed MJ Beat It moves was ( Read more... )

There really, really needs to be an entrance exam for parenthood.  
Biker clocked at 122mph with son

Maybe I've been too quick to dismiss the WoW crowd.

I can't decide which feature I like best: superfluous tank-mounted steering controls, dodecagon-shaped wheels, or a saddlebag conveniently located beneath a giant spinning drive gear/spare tire. I do know this--the average 12-year old playing this game could score a real-world moto license and ( Read more... )

Before the waves of well wishers. Before the applause. Before any reaction at all, really. An ode to being tied to the back of a car, which sounds like loads of fun as long as it's in park.

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Demetri Martin creates a 224-word palindrome poem

"Dammit I'm Mad"

Dammit I’m mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I’m in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level “Mad Dog”.
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
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Or, Ay, Oh, Way To Go, Ohio...
Or, Goddamn, Stockton Must Really Suck

The Forbes '08 List of Most Miserable Cities in the US:

10. Providence, R.I.
9 Charlotte, NC
8.Modesto, California
7.Los Angeles
6.Chicago
5.Philadelphia
4. New York City
3. Flint, Michigan
2.Stockton, California
1. Detroit

...and the '09 List:

10. St. Louis, MO
9. Miami, FL
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Lux passed away this week and mental patients everywhere cried a little without really knowing why.  In addition to cutting my favorite version of Surfing Bird, The Cramps set up the template for Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Gun Club and wound up swapping band members as well.

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