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My question is more about Magnet than REM: does anyone know if Magnet is still publishing a real magazine? I subscribe and haven't received a new issue on a realllly long time. The "new" issue they show on their website is the most recent issue I have (and it is dated "Winter 2009.")

I've seen them twice: once in a club and once in a small theater and they were both great. The first time I saw them they opened with "Wake Up" and it remains one of my favorite live music moments of all time. Seeing them all step up and start to sing sent chills up my spine.

This was perhaps the strangest part of his acceptance speech: "As always, I rely on Gail's love and support, and that of our two lovely daughters. So I want to thank Ayla and Arianna for their help as well. And just in case anyone who's watching throughout the country they're both available. No, no. No. Only kidding, only kidding. Only kidding, only kidding. Arianna... Arianna's, definitely not available. But Ayla is. This is Arianna. This is Ayla. I can see I'm going to get in trouble when I get home."

That's good news that she is working on new stuff. (And I just learned that she and Catherine O'Hara are sisters ...)

According to this USA Today article he's a pretty interesting dude. General Larry Platt: A closer look We all got a good chuckle Wednesday out of General Larry Platt and his Pants on the Ground song. Entertaining as he was, I couldn't help but wonder why the American Idol producers saved the last spot of the show for a 62-year-old guy with a funny song. Now I think I know. Take a look at the photograph on the home page of the Civil Rights Veterans Movement website. See the young man on the left, looking directly into the camera? That's Larry Platt, age 16. "We had come by bus in 1963

This post from FiveThirtyEight isn't much more positive.

Buffalo Tom - Big Red Letter Day

And now according to boston.com he is coming up to Boston on Sunday to campaign for her.

This is sort of funny too: "The Coakley ad ... was already drawing comment and ridicule today from Republicans because it included a misspelling of the name of the state. The ad says it was 'Paid for by the Massachusettes Democratic Party and authorized by Martha Coakley for Senate.'"

I'm watching right now ...

Sir Stewart, just remember: it’s not the ‘Kennedy Seat,’ it’s the people’s seat. It is certainly getting closer (and nastier) than I expected. (Full disclosure: I voted for Alan Khazei in the primary.)

To answer my own question, this was in today's Globe (although I can't imagine he feels the same way 17 years later): But . . . we dug this up in the Globe archives today. It's from a Red Sox notebook I wrote on July 20, 1993. Check out Dawson's comments about the Hall of Fame then: TORONTO -- Andre Dawson, who has hit more than 400 home runs and is closing in on 1,500 RBIs, is a likely Hall of Fame candidate, and when asked what cap he would wear if he makes it, Dawson said, "Probably the Red Sox. "I've respected the way they've treated me and stuck with me. They've shown me a certain re

Magnetic Fields - Realism (January 26)

I am only about 50 pages in but it is a pretty moving story.

Any word on what hat he will wear?

And yahoo is so ... 1997?

If you replace yahoo with hotmail I had the exact same experience ...

Not well at all. All sold out except for single seats. I guess I know how I am spedning my Saturday morning ...

Red Sox sign Adrian Beltre.

I'm guessing it will be somewhere in Canada. Montreal maybe ...

Bon Iver, Dennis MA 5/11/09 - by far my favorite show of the year Throwing Muses, Cambridge MA 3/14/09 Wilco, Portland ME 7/17/09 Neko Case, Boston MA 11/10/09 Yo La Tengo, Boston MA 9/16/09

WFAN radio station in New York is reporting that outfielder Jason Bay will sign with the Mets and that the team will announce it early next week. WFAN afternoon host Mike Francesa says the deal is pending a physical. Bay, who spent the last season and a half with the Red Sox, was considered one of the prizes of this year's free agent market. He batted .267 last season with 36 home runs and 119 RBI. The New York Post's Joel Sherman says the deal is for 4 years and $66 million. Bay had previously turned down a 4-year, $60 million offer to remain in Boston.