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Shoot-out at Hooters
Pizza driver shoots and kills robber, Black Santa smiles
"Mean" diner leaves $50,000 tip

I saw Mitt Romney eating dog food with a prostitute on Christmas morning.

In the alley behind a mosque in San Francisco, even.

Of course, it depends on what the definition of "saw" is.

Best new bands of 2008

Spaceship Challenger
Lice
Radiobread
Whole Wheat Buns
Singer
The Michael Balzary Experience
Apespit
Sold Out
Animal Planet
You Can't Find an AM Antenna on the North Side
Amy Whorehouse

Liberal Fascism, catch the fever.

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War on two fronts

It's not even December 1st, but opposing forces are already gathering for another round of battles in the neverending, and very, very, very real War on Christmas. At the same time, defenders of American Founding Fathers' Paranoid-hetero-protestant-caucazoid Heritage are bravely launching a new offensive in the War on Cartoon Characters. Leading the charge against Happy Feet while fending off attacks from Crate and Barrel and retaking Wal-Mart? Certainly the right wars at the right time, but can they win? We can only hope that they've learned the lesson of Vetnam - "We'll succeed, unless we quit".

In related news: Kenny Kramer, a.k.a. "the real Kramer" of Seinfeld folklore, has been getting hate mail from confused ex-fans of Michael Richards.
A new study reveals a direct link between mental illness and 21st century Republicanism.
The entire species of red-winged blackbirds are risking extinction to perpetuate liberal "Global Warming" hoax. Watchdog organizations are advised to update their lists of known secular propaganda organizations.

Rush Limbaugh vs. Gibby Haynes!

From sometime in the early 1990s:

Clerics on the radio(!)

Tim Davison sent us an email!:

Hello there friend of the Clerics.
The Clerics are performing tonight Friday Nov 10, live on the radio, WHPK 88.5. We'll be on the Pure Hype show somewhere around 9pm. Tune in if you can.
Tim

Rev. Ted Haggard's (REAL) Myspace page!!!

Favorite movie: Napoleon Dynamite
Also this:

Zing!

Blog entry!

Damn. We were busy trying to scrape together $1,010.00 or so to get Randy Blythe a few pints of Old Grand Dad and a ticket to this. Two problems: we're pretty much broke, and L.o.G will be yodeling at goat-herders that night anyway.

Speaking of bands we got to first, have you had enough of the distressingly smug Hold Steady hype campaign?
If not, well, here, check this out. We started it.

Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

There is a new Yo La Tengo album and it has a bunch of songs that start and then go on for a while and then end. The songs are enjoyable, as is the album as a whole. You can buy it on cd or on vinyl lp, or you can even pay to download it from a website. Or I suppose you could even find a place to download it for free, if you don't have an ethical problem with or a fear of being punished for doing that sort of thing. Nevertheless, in addition to the many ways you can get the music, there are even more "places" to find reviews to read. As far as we're concerned here, though, the most important thing about the record is it's cover, and specifically it's artist - the inspirationally indefatiguable Gary Panter - with whom we conducted an exclusive interview, which you can read by manouvering your computer mouse over and clicking this line of text.

Iggy + the Stooges' concert rider contract thing!

The Stooges! Funnier than Three Stooges!

"Happiness Runs" by Donovan on a cereal commercial

I can't for the life of me come up with a more appropriate tune, but I can't help but feel that the culture would be better served by having a Donovan song called "Fruity Cheerios".