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On my list of crap, I forgot "Heartbeat - It's a Love Beat" by the DeFranco Family and Tony DeFranco. What a steaming turd that was.

I'm tempted to use only shitty or ridiculous songs to characterize the '70s, but of course that wouldn't be fair. On that list, though, would probably be the likes of these: "In the Summertime" - Mungo Jerry "Rose Garden" - Lynn Anderson "Don't Pull Your Love" - Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds "Gimme Dat Ding" - The Pipkins "Joy" - Apollo 100 & Tom Parker "The Candy Man" - Sammy Davis, Jr. "Popcorn" - Hot Butter "Disco Duck (Pt. 1)" - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots "Sometimes When We Touch" - Dan Hill "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" - England Dan & John Ford Coley Not a

Scary:

You walked a picket line with Tom Colicchio?

When I was younger, I had a bit of trouble getting my cake decorated too, if you know what I'm saying.

I'm not certain what the opposite of realty is, but I'm pretty sure that it does not involve buying a house.

That's up to my mom. She offered, and I told her we'd gladly accept one, but that we'd understand if she decided not to spend that kind of money in this economy.

How quickly we forgot tugmoose's last thread about Neko's new album.

I've been trying to get my family to cut back on Christmas for years, and this year it might finally happen.

He even took the weapon with him.

The Run-DMC cover went from hip hop to Pet Shop Boys.

Just to play devil's advocate, though ... isn't it a bit of a flawed business model to be so narrowly focused that the collapse of one of your customers would take down your own business? I mean, I realize it's not that simple -- someone has to make parts for the automakers, and maybe that line of work doesn't lend itself to diversification -- but on a fundamental level, isn't this basically true?

I'll take a few measurements and fire up AutoCAD.

Steve's taking Darrin's job; Darrin's taking Steve's job. I could draw a diagram if it would help.

Darrin Jackson to continue broadcasting with White Sox, move to radio Basically, he and Steve Stone are trading places.

As I scrolled -- and scrolled -- through that post, it became pretty clear why it took fourteen years to put together this album.

Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz weighs in: Chapter 11 Is the Right Road for US Carmakers By Joseph Stiglitz, The Financial Times Posted on December 13, 2008, Printed on December 16, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/112456/ The debate about whether or not to bail out the Big Three carmakers has been mischaracterised. It has been described as a package to help the undeserving dinosaurs of Detroit. In fact, a plan to bail out the carmakers would benefit shareholders and bondholders as much as anybody else. These are not the people that need help right now. In fact they contr

Depends on how you define "really successful."

I'm going to guess ... and it's only a guess ... that this is not a reference to the band Wilco. If you search that forum for screen names including "wilco," a handful of them come up. Maybe this is a nod to another member?

Thinking about picking up some tickets for the Ann Arbor show, which went on sale today. I looked it up on TicketBastard, but they were going to charge me $8 extra per ticket, so screw them.

While I'd love to witness this particular piece of history, I sure as hell don't want to put myself in the middle of such an enormous crowd, outside, in the middle of January. The police are warning people that they're likely to spend several hours on their feet without a chance to sit down. Doesn't sound like my idea of a good time. I hope those of you who do go have a great time. I look forward to seeing your photos.

If it's any comfort, starting 12/20 ESPN will practically become the full-time College Football Bowl Game Network. Schedule: EagleBank Dec. 20, 11 a.m. (ESPN) Washington, D.C. Navy vs. Wake Forest New Mexico Dec. 20, 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Albuquerque, N.M. Fresno State vs. Colorado St. St. Petersburg Dec. 20, 4:30 p.m. (ESPN2) St. Petersburg, Fla. USF vs. Memphis Las Vegas Dec. 20, 8 p.m. (ESPN) Las Vegas BYU vs. Arizona New Orleans Dec. 21, 8 p.m. (ESPN2) New Orleans Southern Miss vs. Troy Poinsettia Dec. 23, 8 p.m. (ESPN) San Diego Boise St. vs. TCU Hawaii Dec. 24, 8 p

It's still early, but I haven't seen anything yet to change my mind on this one -- Dumars has lost his mind. The Pistons are now 7-9 with Iverson. They'll probably right the ship eventually, but it won't be the same ship it was before. Iverson just isn't the player, or leader, that they needed. This team was far better with Chauncey Billups. Oh ... and so are the Nuggets.

Disgusting. Also disgusting: that someone who gets paid to write stuff could come up with this sentence: "He had drank nearly a pint of vodka before the wreck."

link I hope there's a "Street Fighting Man Street." Not to mention "Bitch Boulevard" or "Turd On The Run Drive." - - - - - - - - - - - - English town names streets after Stones songs By Gregory Katz, Associated Press Writer LONDON