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Sex Pistols on Leno
Managed to sit through the last 30 minutes of Leno, a personal record, to catch the Pistols. Apparently, the band is back promo-ing their appearance on the latest edition of “Guitar Hero” a video game for kids who would rather not practice pentatonic scales. They ran through “Anarchy in the UK”. Jones flubbed his solo,…
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Hey, they stole my iPod!
The funny thing is, I have been biding my time for many, many months waiting for enough AMEX points to accumulate to pay for a really, really good set of noise-blocking phones. As you all know, the iPod earbuds are criminally, criminally incompetent, not to mention dangerous to use during air travel, since they invite…
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Hey, they broke my watch!
Spending a lot of time in Chicago these days, as is Ms. Celluloid Pantry. So that’s enough to prompt the semi-annual screening of the Blues Brothers. Just noticed , after watching this movie maybe 50 times already, that right after John Candy’s immortal “This is car 55. We’re in a truck.” line, another cop is…
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Speaking of Philip K. Dick
Funny how everything good comes from some place else. One of the best scenes in John Carpenter’s Dark Star involves a conversation with the ship’s dead captain. Beyond being understandably groggy, he’s a bit put out that no one has talked to him for so long. Still, he offers good advice, that is, to teach…
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Are Dream Jokes Real?
Could be a Philip K. Dick story, but I also think it’s an inherently interesting question. If something happens in a dream that causes you to laugh, is it really funny? What if you can remember the scenario afterwards and your waking self doesn’t find it funny, or coherent? Once or twice when this has…
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Sometimes I Just Think Funny Things
Free for the taking: “Sushi Generis” (name for a resaturant), “The New Criteronion” (name for a spoof site). According to NAM, I laugh in my sleep. I would find that a little creepy.
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Lightning Struck Itself: Television at SummerStage
Strange to have been so excited about seeing a band so notoriously aloof and disconnected from their audience. But the truth is, the disconnection is all surface, not quite masking the real connection, through the music. Carnegie Hall might have been a more appropriate venue. When a chamber group is playing, no one remarks how…
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Lines of the Millennium
From someone who didn’t live to see it: We got have peace To keep the world alive And war to cease. We got to have joy, True in our hearts With strength we can’t destroy. People please hear us Through our voice the world knows There’s no choice. We’re begging save the children The little…
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Whole lotta Hadrons
Speaking of reducing things to little tiny bits: both the New Yorker and the Times have recently featured nice articles on CERN‘s Large Hadron Collider. Mmm… Hadrons…