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Kind of like how everybody took "Born in the U.S.A." to be a great patriotic anthem, when it's a song about someone getting totally effed in the a by America.

I don't think most people think about it that much.

That ad caused me to go out and buy three Kinks CD. HP shit sucks, so I would never buy any of their crap.

Thanks for both the show and the laughs.

Good album, that.

Picking just one is kind of a false exercise, but if I had to pick just one, it would be Abbey Road.

Turn and run Nothing can stop them Around every river and canal their Power is growing Stamp them out We must destroy them They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour They are invincible They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering Long ago in the Russian hills A Victorian explorer found the regal Hogweed by a marsh He captured it and brought it home Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge Royal beast did not forget He came home to London And made a present of the Hogweed to the Royal Gardens at Kew Waste no time They are approaching Hurry now, we must protect our

The happiest of birthdays to you.

Heya. YSI'd this to a friend just now; thought'd I'd share with the gang. Are these guys any good? http://download.yousendit.com/3784B95225055B12

I would imagine as bland as the Third Reich's.

I may have. I honestly don't remember writing it.

I have just received a report that a headline I barely remember writing - "Marlboro funeral home resumes planting program" - was included in a "silly headlines" feature in the Feb. 2007 issue of Reader's Digest. Not a Pulitzer, or Leno, but I'll take it.

I almost got caught by my English prof once buying Monarch Notes for Madame Bovary at the local bookstore. Has anyone ever done a porn version, possibly entitled Madame Ovary?

Cliff's Notes on that book exist; a kid in my French class had them. I read both the French and the English version simultaneously.

Trickier in French.

And a couple more on me! Yay birthday! Yay bourbon!

U.S. military: Iraqi lawmaker is U.S. Embassy bomber BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence. Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution, but Washington now says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq. Repeated efforts to reach Jamal Jafaar Mohammed for comment through the parliament, through the ruling Shiite Muslim coa

12 F. here in Kingston. (NY, not Jamaica.)

Far Away, Super Bowl

I tell you, I never knew American mass media to be such comic geniuses!

"Swingin' Party" - The Replacements

"The Theory of Everything" is the as-yet-discovered master formula of the universe which would make quantum theory mesh with relativity, I think.

I liked that too.

My TV and my computer will never, ever have sex with each other. Verboten.

While I am in favor of la revolucion, I don't think anyone should have the power to rule by decree, so I'm going to get my gas at Hess from now on.