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Matthew Moneymaker

How about awarding the job to the first person who can take down Bob Barker in a steel cage match? Judging by his performance in Happy Gilmore, Bob is surprisingly agile and scrappy for his age.

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Wow, I know I just said that SFG is the only one I still listen to, but I'm kind of shocked at the negativity towards March. If anything, that one has aged rather gracefully and is probably my #2 UT album anymore. I don't listen very often, but when I do, I like it.

Still Feel Gone should be re-titled Still Feel Like Listening To It. The rest seem to be on indefinite hiatus for me. No guarantee that they won't be back in the playlist someday, but there are no immediate plans for a revival.

#2 theory, as applied to Wilco (my ratings, scale of 1 to 5): Casion Queen: 3 Far Far Away: 4 She's a Jar: 5 Kamera: 3 Hell Is Chrome: 4 You Are My Face: 11 Conclusion: #2 theory may be flawed, as the albums here with the strongest #2 tracks are not my favorite Wilco albums overall. Interesting.

Theoretically, they should all be good. But, yeah, I'd say that I tend to look at #2 if only for the fact that I always expect the leadoff track to be a "grabber" (or an intro, I suppose), but if track #2 is a letdown it is a bad omen for the rest of the album and hard to recover the momentum.

Not that music is necessarily bound to a particular geographical location, but it is difficult to imagine the jazz music that emerged from cutlural stew of New Orleans happening anywhere else. (this is the part where LouieB steps in and reminds me that Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Seves recordings were mostly done in Chicago)

It would be cooler if it was.

I don't live in DC anymore, either, but back in the day I used to suddenly get "sick" and have to leave work sometime in the early afternoon and head up the West side of the beltway in order to get there in plenty of time. Not sure this is a viable option for everybody, tho.

I like to call it "orioleing". Try using it in conversation...I'm really hoping it catches on.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I'm not sure Bloomberg has enough recognition outside the northeast--he may not have the star power to carry a cult following like Nader, or even the bizarre charisma of a Perot. Still, he could conceivably pull some votes from both sides. For Dems, if they are hoping to cash in on a GOP backlash, I'm not sure how many of those votes will be swayed away by a guy who self-identified as a Republican until 5 minutes ago. For the Republican base, Bloomberg looks like Rudy (fairly liberal social views) but without that oh-so-appealing authorita

So its less a matter of listening wrong than it is a matter of listening in the wrong place?

Well, I am going to a couple Reds games in the next month or so. I'm already accustomed to watching bad baseball, but at least this will provide the opportunity to do it in a stadium I've never been to before.

I tried it for a while when I was a yoot. Never got very good b/c I didn't live close enough to the shore to practice with any consistency. Always wished I was better at it. Nowadays I'm landlocked in the midwest, and am trying to decide how badly I will be laughed at as a tremendous dork if I try to use my skimboard at the nearby lake.

Welp, the O's finally fired Perlozzo. I'd imagine the resulting managerial search will resemble something out of Major Leage: This just blows. I don't care about Perlozzo--it wouldn't matter who they had in that dugout. I finally had my last bit of optimism beaten out of me a few seasons ago. These yearly implosions really are like clockwork anymore. But, damn, of all the shitty teams they have fielded for the last decade, this one feels the worst just because I didn't think there was anywhere left to go but up. Mr. Angelos, please please sell the team. (that sounds like a nicer request

Company In My Back > China Cat

Waistline?

I'm trying to grow taller. Honest.

I've said it before. Ship of Fools is right in Jeff's vocal-wheelhouse.

Its true. I'm like 3'4" on a good day.

I'm going to assume the q was a nod in my direction. Thanks. Reading this whole pissing match about who sucks and who sucks more for thinking someone else sucks, I'm reminded of the fact that I really wish I wasn't so musically-untalented that I could finally run out and start that Fugazi-meets-Grateful-Dead band I've always had floating around in my head, because I'd just love to read the reviews. Really. Just thought I'd share that. Carry on.

Wow, that's just awesome. The bananaphone song was a running joke in my old office. There was a website with a flash animation that used the "ring ring ring Bananaphone!" in the background on a continuous loop, and somebody would play it at an almost-inaudible volume and leave it playing until it subliminally worked its way into people's heads and somebody finally flipped out and screamed "Oh my god, WTF is that??" and they'd race around the office trying to figure out where it was coming from. Good times.

I think the way it works is that you're required to pick something really obnoxious and then always keep the volume really high. I keep mine on vibrate. But maybe that's just cuz it makes me feel kinda funny...

Sure. You want Baltimore's?