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Scary Haircut Sold Separately

Now for sale: a waterproof MP3 player that works via bone conduction. Bone-conducting cell phones are also available. Does anyone else remember the BoneFone? You can get one on eBay if you like.

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Home Improvement

Spent the weekend repainting my office and rearranging things to make room for the new addition to my collection of harmonica memorabilia: the Harmonica Dalek (see right), recently acquired from a fellow member of harp-l. Photos here.

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Oh, Irony

The things you see when you don’t have a ticket book…

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Is there hope?

Boston underdog beats arrogant, over-funded favorite…

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Waiter Rant

If you need a reminder not to mess around with the people bringing you food, Waiter Rant provides many.

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Letters To America

The Guardian is asking its readers to write directly to U.S. voters asking them to vote against Bush. Letter writers include Richard Dawkins and John Le Carre, whose most recent novel, Absolute Friends, is basically a howl of fury about … Continue reading

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A Note From the Non-Reality-Based Community

You think [Dubya is] an idiot, don’t you … all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don’t care. You … Continue reading

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Dumb and Dumber?

Quote of the day, from Tom Friedman’s column in the Times today: In China, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America, Britney Spears is Britney Spears. In the column, he endorses Bill Cosby for President on condition that he talk … Continue reading

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“Standing waiting for a man to show…”

John Cale played the Limelight tonight (or the Avalon as it’s known now) with a four-piece rock band. The songs ranged from slow and gentle (including about 1/3 of his new album, Hobo Sapiens) to shrieking noise-rock, concluding with Cale … Continue reading

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Is the Tape Rolling, Bob?

Bob Dylan sat for first radio interview in years with National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep. (I continue to shake my head at NPR’s firing Bob Edwards; imagine a conversation between Edwards and Dylan!) The most interesting part of the interview … Continue reading

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