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Saturday, Jun 04, 2005

78 degrees

"Here are MP3s made from hundreds of 78RPM discs recorded between 1900 and 1930. Included are notes on the transfer process and discographic information."

via brooklyn vegan


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Friday, Jun 03, 2005

how do you felt now?

"His agents probably broke into my office, and may have monitored my bedroom one night. Even as journalists hail the deeds of Deep Throat, no one should forget he was also an architect of the nefarious COINTELPRO spy program. The man truly knew a thing or two about illegal break-ins."

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Thursday, Jun 02, 2005

the scum also rises

"Ben Stein. The Nixon aide, conservative gadfly and erstwhile game show host cried when reflecting on Nixon's resignation. Of the Felt story and Nixon's legacy, Stein said, "That is his [Nixon's] legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton -- a lying, conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon's kharma.""

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Wednesday, Jun 01, 2005

felt tip pen

geez. i dont scan the blogs for 12 hours and see what i miss. deep throat becomes full throat. god bless the spooks, once every decade or so.

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Friday, May 27, 2005

the poz that (duh) refreshes

"Johnny H dropped me off at my friend's house, which was located in the backroom of a rundown thread and scallop factory that his family owned. With the mesmerizing whir from the embroidery machines greeting me, I found my two pals already hoisting the moist--a case of Blatz beer and a fifth of Southern Comfort. So we killed some time yakking up baseball, needling down some choice Three Dog Night cuts (what, you were expecting Sir Doug Saldana or Wild Man Fischer?) and rummaging through his baseball card collection. As a companion piece to my growing fluency with Blatz, I started draining some rhythmic shots of Comfort (I now realize how easy it was for Tiny Tim to fall into that horrid three-jar-a-day habit he had of drinking straight-up Ragu Spaghetti Sauce!). I had never tasted that Southern Comfort peach-flavored bourbon liqueur befueur, but "Godfrey Jack Daniels" it went down smooth. Smooth enough that before I knew it, I was more than a half a bottle in and half a bottle out of it. And BP time at the stadium was quickly approaching."

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pancake!

couple of nice takedowns:

rude pundit on tom friedman
max blumenthal on christopher hitchens

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

not chopped ham

this is the bestest filibuster fallout summary ive read in the last, oh, three minutes.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

x-winger

""It's one thing to put your faith in a religion founded by a real person who claimed divine revelation, but it's something else entirely to have, as the scripture of your religion, a storyline that you know was made up by a very nonprophetic human being."
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Wha...? Your irony meters may have been spared if you didn't already know that Card is devoutly religious. Your meters are glowing heaps of radioactive slag right now if you knew that Card is a devout Mormon."

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david cross is overwrought

"Top Ten CD's That I Just Made Up (and accompanying made-up review excerpts) to listen to while skimming through some of the overwrought reviews on Pitchforkmedia.com."

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Monday, May 23, 2005

sigh ops

i eagerly await rupert murdocks "dressing down" for endangering our troops by enciting the enemy. or not.

"The Washington Post report on the preliminary investigation into the release of photos of Saddam Hussein in his underwear seems to be suggesting that the photos were released for military psy-ops reasons, rather than out of individual cupidity..."

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