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I wonder what percentage of people read Prince's claim that the internet is over on-line?

Love him or hate him, there was a pretty interesting article about Mariano Rivera in Sunday's NYT Magazine. The on-line version includes a really cool infographic detailing his cut fastball.

Lawn Dart by Ed's Redeeming Qualities It was the third of July and the weather was fine Ed brought the hot dogs, the croquet set was mine But the red ball was missing and three mallets were bent Ed suggested lawn darts so to K-Mart we went We looked by the yard games, we looked by the grills But we couldn't find lawn darts come high water or hills We talked to the sales clerk and she started to cry She said "They're off the shelves now," and she told us both why: A kid was pegged in the head with a lawn dart Her dad didn't see 'er, that's the worst part; A kid was pegged in the head with

No Girlfriend? That is still my favorite M. Sweet album. For me his stuff wasn't as good without both Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd.

And didn't REM (or was it wilcoworld?) release a live version of Country Feedback that Wilco plays on? I swear I have that somewhere ...

I don't know if they count as pop rock but I am still a big fan of Buffalo Tom. I saw them (for the zillionth time) a few weeks ago and they still sound great. They played some new songs and said that they have recorded an album's worth of new material but are not sure when and how they will release it.

This Red Sox injury thing is getting ridiculous. Jason Varitek suffered a broken foot Wednesday night and is expected to miss six weeks.

He was great in May of this year but seems to have settled back down in June. (Although his home run off of Lincecum the other day was pretty sweet.)

This is a tough one for me. Blood on the Tracks is probably my favorite album of all time and I totally agree with Sir Stewart's sentiment above. It's a nice respite and I think it is a great vocal performance (for Dylan). That said, after about five minutes of it I am ready to move on ...

Did Merge put the "Just Like Heaven" cover on instead?

Well it's two: "Lose" (track 8) is a Lou rocker that I don't like that much. For me it's a real drop off from the first seven songs. And I appreciate your point about "Poledo" but I can't call an album flawless if there are songs that I skip and probably half the time I listen to You're Living All Over me I skip Poledo. Another tough one for me to leave out is Husker Du's Flip Your Wig. I absolutely love that album - except for the two instrumentals at the end. They are OK but they just feel sort of tacked on.

And now Victor Martinez is hurt. He left the game in the 4th after taking a foul ball off his foot.

I almost listed this but I will admit that I often skip the two Lou Barlow songs at the end.

It's mentioned below in the Kink's thread but maybe Pete deserves his own thread.

Nice tribute to Quaife here on the site for my friend who made the movie about trying to reunite the Kinks.

Original Kinks bassist Pete Quaife died.

I wonder what that would sound like ...

Feelies - Crazy Rhythms But now how to address debut EPs? I was going to include: REM - Murmur (but Chronic Town came first) Arcade Fire - Funeral (but the Us Kids Know EP came first) Pixies - Surfer Rosa (But Come On Pilgrim came first) Pavement - Slanted + Enchanted (but Slay Tracks and others came first)

And the Paradise is going to be closed for renovations for most of the summer. I would guess most of the shows that would go there will end up split between the Middle East and the Royale. I am curious to see what they are going to do to the Paradise ...

There is another streaming song that you can link to from the caldo verde records site. You can also pre-order the CD and get a limited edition four song EP.

I certainly agree that NJ gets a bad rap and I think many New Jersey-ites feel defensive about it. My grandmother grew up in Elizabeth which she says as one long word: "Elizabeth-which-was-nice-when-I-lived-there." My wife also grew up in a nice part of NJ but she often has to explain that there is a nice part. And I certainly agree with Lammy's point, and my trip this past weekend is a perfect example. The NJ portion of the trip started on the Turnpike which is, well, the New Jersey Turnpike. Then we got on Route 1 which looked like it used to be beautiful farmland but is now a lot of o

And remphish I don't mean to seem like I am picking on you or your list, but half of that statement is arguably not true. According to the National Park Service "the Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island, federal property administered by the National Park Service, located within the territorial jurisdiction of the State of New York. A pact between New York and New Jersey, ratified by Congress in 1834, declared this issue."

Oh I read it. It seemed pretty amazing to me so rather than working I spent some time researching eggplant. This is a response to that same fact posted elsewhere: 9/20/04 - E-mail from a visitor: "This is fiction. New Jersey eggplant production reaches about 8,000 tons a year. In the USA this ranks FOURTH in the nation. California is #1 with 13,000 to 18,000 tons a year of eggplant. World-wide New Jersey produces about .1% of the world's eggplant. There is a lot to be proud of in the Garden State. Let truth be among them." - JP (Thank you for the note and the correction JP!) And according