Ok, it’s only funny because it happened to someone else, but this is a great story where a guy goes down to get a CD from his car to find it gone. Stolen? Nope, repo’d…except he has paid in full for the car.
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So is Bagwell angling to play for ZZ Top when he retires?
(Trivia: After later opening for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hendrix named Gibbons his favorite guitar player during an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson.”)
I’ve been really busy lately — overloaded with work and trying to squeeze too much “life” into the daylight spring-time hours I do get — so Television With Out Pity has been a real time saver. I like Sopranos and want to know what happens on the show, but it has just made the cut-off list for shows I don’t have time to catch. Instead, I read the Soprano’s re-hashes at TWOP.
Check the upper-right hand corner for a list of shows and you’ll probably find one of your not-quite-favorites listed. The TWOP guys are especially known for their reality-based show wrap-ups.
Absolutely one of the most useful sites on the internet, and it’s a good lead-in to the soon-to-be-released new album.
Futterman’s Rule (Beastie Boys/Nishita)
“When two are served, you may begin to eat” – Gene Futterman
Get It Together (Beastie Boys/J Davis)
Known sample: “Headless Heroes” by Eugene McDaniels
1-2 1-2 keep it on
One site visitor pointed out that 1-212 is how you would begin to dial the New York area code. Her name is Meira and she went on to elaborate a very detailed idea for the origination of Ma Bell. It’s largely unsubstantiated rumor, but of enough interest that if you’d like to read it, you can do so here.
Listen to the shit because we kick it until dawn
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And I can’t stop with the body rock
See I’ve got heart like John Starks, hitting mad sparks
Shooting guard for the New York Knicks at the time of this recording.
Pass me the mic and I’ll be rocking the whole park
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Ad Rock down with the Ione
Actress Ione Skye, at the time, Ad Rock’s wife.
Listen to the shit because both of them is boney
Got to do it like this like chachi and joanie
From the television series Happy Days, the Fonz’s (Henry Winkler) cousin Chachi (Scott Baio) and the Cunningham daughter Joanie (Erin Moran) became such a popular couple that they had a short lived spin-off series of their own called Joanine Loves Chachi.
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Today’s reason: I’m jealous that I don’t get this much vacation time (or even “work from home” time if you buy what the GOP is selling)
This is Bush’s 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and his five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500 days in office at one of his three retreats, or more than 40 percent of his presidency.
(Now that’s out of the way, I’m kicking off MTHD — 24 hours of links devoted to putting a smile on TZ-T’s face.)
I’m running my car on water
There’s other cool stuff there, like the Philosopher’s Stone (you can know good and evil when it is in the room with you, you can project your thoughts into someone else’s mind, you can levitate, you can walk on water, because it is flowing so much light in you, you literally don’t attract to gravity.), and cool things that make you go boom
Dan Savage makes good points (echoing what John said earlier) about the Howard Stern fines and subsequent firing by Clear Channel in Salon today (Might be NSFW)
“We should be concerned because what’s being done to Howard Stern is part of a concerted effort by religious and cultural conservatives to stamp out the sexual openness that has come to define mainstream culture over the last 20 years. “
I am concerned. What to do about it? Please don’t say that I have to listen to Stern now.
Admittedly, I didn’t watch much of Bush’s Press Conference last night. Not because I was pissed that it preempted American Idol – I was busy with Gilmore Girls Gone Wild – but because I really can hardly stand to watch him in action.
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The difference in how DNC and RNC fundraisers are covered. If GW holds a fundraiser, it’s inevitably billed as a “Thousand dollar a plate” event that raises, say, $4 million. When JFK holds a fundraiser, it’s a “local event” that raises the same $4 million. We all know that most likely the DNC event was billing a grand for a plate of warm chicken; why is it a crucial piece of reporting for the story on the RNC/GW but not in the DNC/JFK piece?
What got my ire completely up was this morning’s Morning Edition bit on “Independent Political Groups”, or IPG’s. George Soros and other DNC billionaires have been funding these with, to use NPR’s words, “six and seven figure checks”, which avoid the “hard money” contribution limits on the DNC/RNC/Greens (if they have anyone donating anymore)/Etc. Yet somehow, we are asked to believe that these IPG’s, who pay the people who do voter registration, etc, are somehow more “grassroots” than the RNC’s “party building” activities, most of which are funded with hard money.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – the DNC is the party of the super rich, those who have long since stopped contributing to the economy, and are interested only in holding on to their wealth. Hence their reliance on high marginal income tax rates, emphasis on consumption taxes (gas, sin, desire to pass a VAT, etc). Their continued push for social programs could even be seen as a “let them eat cake” sop to the poor.
springs eternal.
So it seems that in the parts of Iraq that aren’t burning, the folks are following our porch preference for local control. Nassyria held elections last week, and their polls bode well for peace, and ill for religous extremists: The poll was the latest in a series which this overwhelmingly Shia province has held in the past six weeks, and the results have been surprising. Seventeen towns have voted, and in almost every case secular independents and representatives of non-religious parties did better than the Islamists.