- Wednesday, September 25, 2002 — 100 Articles Published
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Brain Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports— Everyone makes music to be listened to, Eno said. What if I made some music designed specifically not to be
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Robert Plant's Dreamland— Ignorant record clerks and feisty little boys . . . Dreamland?
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Warrior Politics— ...
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Gypsy Soul— ...
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Narcissism is what Eminem has to show— ...
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Peter Gabriel gets old— I'm not sure if it's his age or his ivory-tower status, but he comes across as painfully behind the times
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Carnival of the Vanities #1— Give a bunch of monkeys typewriters and time, lots of time, and one day you'll have Shakespeare. And the monkeys
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HEM - rabbit songs— ...
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Problems with Bruce— ...
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Upload Peter Gabriel— ...
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Watching the K Foundation Burn A Million Quid— ...
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Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers— The two films are superficially similar. Both attempt to tell factually correct stories of parts of US history that aren’t
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MacArthur fellows announced— ...
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Big Brother 3: The Final Prediction— Big Brother 3 ends tonight, and it's time to put my powers of deduction on the line. I think
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Goin' to Metropolis— ...
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Carter Beats the Devil— A jam-packed historical novel about the exploits of renowned magician "Carter the Great" and his role in the death of
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Grog is the name of a female singer?
— Led by the stunning Grog, this three piece group produce powerful dark hard rock...
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Tupac And Biggie Revisited— ...
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Grog - LIVE!— The other night saw a cracking gig from at least two very cool up and coming bands. Not what you
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The Vanishing Voter— ...
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Is it too early to have riot grrl nostalgia?— ...
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Earl Vickers: Supra-Genius
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Covers, Covers Everywhere— ...
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Staying the Devouring Monster: Smallpox Vaccine and Bioterror Preparedness
— Keeping the greatest scourge ever known to mankind at bay
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Denison Marrs - Then Is the New Now— A perfect album for late night drives.
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Mass Post Day
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Enough Salinger Already— ...
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The Boys from Syracuse
— The current Broadway revival of the Rogers and Hart classic is a second-acter dream. Show up at the break, and
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The Line is Here— I don't think it's a big shiny secret that I like porn.
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Full Moon Trilogy
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Monsters, Inc.— Were we the last folks to see Monsters, Inc. and Shrek? Maybe not, and we certainly won't be the
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Weezer, the Muppets, and Inter-species Sexuality— I'd like to think that even after Jim Henson's death we can still count on the Muppets to maintain their
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A Short History Of Electric Guitars— The date of the first application of the pickup on a guitar is uncertain...
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Joshua Tree, 15 Years Later— ...
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The Color Of Red And White— ...
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American Idol- at last, a reprieve from the torture
— Let out a collective sigh of relief, America, American Idol is finally over. Sure, there's been some "wrap up" shows
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The Czars Live— ...
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Firefly
— Can Joss work his magic a third time?
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Great Sounds From India— ...
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Hangdogs - Texas wants 'em anyway...— ...
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Alternative Weekly's Record Roundup
— Parody of the reviews you see in your local alternative rag. Sadly, none of the records are real.
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TV pop-ups?
— More proof that big media, together with the corporations that feed it, still doesn't get it...
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TV, Politics, and Culture— ...
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THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham— There were two things that immediately put me on my guard with this book. One, the book was a takeoff
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Spoon - Kill the Moonlight— No extra garbage on this album. Forty near perfect minutes.
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Friends vs. Allies— Wilson to Bismark: "You've poisoned the relationship." Bismark to Wilson: "Whuh?"
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David Ignatius: Agents of Innocence— In another time, this 1987 espionage novel set in the Middle East would be great escapist literature. In today's world,
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Fine Wine and Peter Gabriel
— Some things get better with age, as Gabriel reminds us with "The Barry Williams Show"
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The Last Waltz— ...
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Good Morning Blues— Finding real music on community radio.
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Smallville— With the new season of Smallville kicking off yesterday on The WB, I thought it'd be fun to go back
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Mass Post Day - Progress Report
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Pigs and the Pox— The government will not give the public access to smallpox shots until there's an outbreak. Here's some insight into why.
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Reviewing Nirvana's "You know you're right" and how it markets the upcoming greatest hits package— Nirvana's recently bootleg-released song starts out with the gentle sound of strings strumming. A gentleness that sets the tone
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critical critique— Ever wished you could tell a critic where to stick it? Well here's your chance.......
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How to write about an album you don't have yet— ...
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Atonement, Ian McEwan— At one level, this is a well-plotted, unusually (for this author) emotionally-involving piece of conventional fiction; at another, it is
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My Opponent Hates You
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Could this be the future of Internet Radio?
— As many of us know, the US Government has imposed fees on the broadcast of Internet Radio, starting next month,
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Freedom Week
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Digital Xanadu: Citizen Kane on DVD— Orson Welles, Michael Moore, and even William Randolph Hearst are all gonna meet down at the Xanadu Ranch.
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Farewell to John Lee Hooker— No! Not John Lee Hooker, the Boogie Man, Texas Slim, Johnny Lee, Birmingham Sam, John Lee Booker. Man, it really
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The Proper Walking Process— ...
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Mass Post Day - Progress Report
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First Impression: The Soft Boys, Nextdoorland— A brief and hasty review of Hitchcock and Co.'s new album. Bear in mind that I've only heard it twice.
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Why The Sauds Behave As They Do— ...
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Kevin Starr's World War II California— ...
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Spock's Beard - Snow— ...
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Herman Blume and the class struggle— ...
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Support Banned Books Week
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Ban 'Em All
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Shakespeare, on shaving— ...
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Kurt Cobain, the Halloween grinch— Kurt Cobain did not like my mother's Halloween decorations.
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Summer of 1976— A continuing exploration of how pop culture that shaped my life.
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Wingardium Leviosa— ...
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Wat te ell?
— When did we, as English speakers, lose all respect for the letter H?
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Veni Vidi Vicious - THE HIVES— The Hives Are Law, You Are CRIME!!
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Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute— I bought this record without even listening to it. I just had to have the package.
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Nightline Upclose on MacArthur Fellows— ...
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Justice for All, but not necessarily Liberty...
— Twenty five years ago this month, Holly Maddux was murdered and stuffed in a trunk. Jury selection began yesterday
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Funny Money
— Do you want Courtney Love's to do your taxes for you? Then why do you let her explain accounting
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Coben's Gone For Good— Harlan Coben's Gone For Good loses a bit of the page-turning velocity present in Tell No One.
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My Morning Jacket - At Dawn Darla Records 2001— ...
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Keoki and Moonshine Part As "Friends"— ...
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Hey, Kids! Comics!
— I periodically do comic book reviews at my site. So why not here, too? All I have
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Mass Post Day - Unflipping Believable
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Unbreakable— Some movies need to be seen at least twice because too many people don't get it first time around. M.
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"Oh and Sug--Don't Forget To Say Your Prayers"— Why do men love "Dr. Strangelove"?
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The Riff Randals - Fun in the Sun— ...
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9/11 Comic Strip Reviews— I've always thought that reading the comic strips is a highly subjective experience; I've no other way to explain the
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One (imaginary) Saturday morning— What the weekend cartoon schedule would look like if I ruled the world
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Inside the TSA
— You've read all the blogs about bad airport security. You've read Mr. Instapundit's Fox News columns. Now read the
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Concert Lessons in Life— Just a few of the many things you can learn from attending concerts.
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Eighteen Visions - Vanity— When I first saw Vanity, I thought it was in the wrong section at the record store. I didn't expect
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When Subcultures Clash— Pink Floyd, Philly, 1994. Burnt rope wasn't the only thing stinkin' up the air.
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More about Banned Books Week— ...
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Stuff— I have a laser beam-like focus on the electronic products I crave, sometimes to the exclusion of good sense...
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Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory— You can take that Golden Ticket and shove it up your ass.
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Stuff II: Electric Boogaloo— Beers and Mattress Bopping
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Stuff III— Pink Elephants and the Bus Station
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