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My reason for poking you about this is the connection you attempted to make between two posters' claims of malevolent media control and their use of others' words to advance their arguments. You meant it as a snarky "observation," but it contained a false equation of two minimally related things, masquerading as a serious point, and that equation had gone unchallenged.

Maybe you could jot down your rules for message-board discussions, so that we all may know how not to incur your annoyance. I see your point, but if someone wants to post a link, where's the harm in that? Click it or don't click it. If you do click it, you can usually determine within ten seconds whether it interests you enough to actually read it. Rather than rehashing someone else's words, posting a link is an efficient way to direct people's attention to additional commentary on an issue. It's helpful when a link is accompanied by a brief explanation of what the link leads to, but I don

I thought Gervais was fantastic. Awards shows are stupid, and they deserve to have someone come in and lay waste to them from time to time.

Ludicrous. I haven't followed this thread closely enough to know whose words they posted to convey their point, but this argument is dishonest. Though mainstream media are clearly being manipulated by powerful interests into skewing their reporting to suit a certain agenda, there is an ample supply of reporting and commentary on the internet that is not beholden to any corporate or political master. That's not to say that all of it is worth reading, or that much of it is objective, but it's hard to find a subject on which countless others have not already weighed in online, many of them wit

Is she still relying on endless repetition in her songwriting, or has she actually started writing good songs again?

They haven't been for quite a while now. Ever since the Republicans started threatening to de-fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR has been kissing GOP ass every chance they get. Not that it's working ... that threat is in full force again.

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/oscars/index.html?story=/ent/tv/feature/2011/02/28/oscars_2001_telecast

Meh. Franco has been hit and miss for me, mostly miss. Hathaway is gorgeous but I can't say she's ever left much of an impression on me with her acting. I figured they'd be competent and boring, but instead they were annoying and boring.

I had the exact opposite reaction. That son of a bitch sat there and lied about the Bush tax cuts, and was furiously spinning the recession to make himself look like some kind of hero.

Well, I for one thought they were horrible. Absolutely atrocious.

Indeed, it was at the Town and Country Club. I was in London for a semester of foreign study, but I had virtually no extra cash, so when I found out about this show I had to reduce my grocery budget for a week or two to free up funds for a ticket. Definitely worth it.

I nearly died in the pit at a Jesus & Mary Chain show at the Brixton Academy in '88. And I'm as big and beefy as they come. Slight miscalculation on my part when I decided to go down front.

Forgot to mention these guys. The full original lineup (minus Stephen Jo Bladd) played a couple of shows in Detroit two years ago, and I made sure I got tickets.

I think my favorite Killdozer cover is "I Am, I Said."

Latin America is a continent?

A very minor role. There are far bigger Goliaths that need slaying before anyone goes after unions ... but those Goliaths tend to donate very heavily to Republicans (or are manifestations of the longstanding Republican agenda), so here we are.

My parents let us borrow bricks and boards and we set up jumps on the sidewalk in front of our house -- both takeoff and landing ramps. Those ramps got pretty far apart after a while. Amazingly, no memorable injuries resulted. We lived on a cul-de-sac with woods at the end of it, and in those woods there were some great jumps that someone had constructed by creating mounds of earth. Some of them were really scary, but I don't remember any of us ever getting hurt.

This whole record.

Silver Jews Police (reunion tour) Pixies ('90, also reunion) R.E.M. (original lineup) Ramones (C.J. on bass) Elvis Costello & The Attractions Graham Parker & The Rumour (one-off London reunion show in 1988) CSNY (featuring the late Ben Keith) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (with Federici) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (w/ Stan Lynch) The Pretenders (w/ Martin Chambers) Meat Puppets (original lineup reunion) The Dead Milkmen Dinosaur Jr. (original lineup reunited ... OK, so these guys are still around) GBV ('94) Gigolo Aunts (later lineup) The Jayhawks ('93) The Chamber S

"Vibes" probably isn't the right word, so instead I'm sending good thoughts to the southern hemisphere...

Another shot of my bike. It looked a little ridiculous, what with the bicentennial banana seat, the fenders, and the stumpy handlebars, but it was the fastest bike in the neighborhood. I routinely beat my brother (3 years older) in bike races. And A-man, I didn't have that Knievel bike, but someone in my neighborhood did.

Awwwwww yeah. That's me on the right, my brother on the left.

Whiskeytown. Long story, but I was actually at a Whiskeytown show, but had gone with friends to see the opening band and wound up leaving before Whiskeytown came on stage. At the time I had heard of Whiskeytown but hadn't yet listened to any of their stuff.

These posts take me back to the glory days of Tower Records on North Clark in Chicago. I had many kid-in-a-candy-store moments in that place. (RIP)