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• 1 - Tom Johnson

  Oct 03, 2003 at 11:28 am

  Um . . . huh?

• 2 - Eric Olsen

  Oct 03, 2003 at 12:12 pm

  Jim, I have to admit I have missed your more oblique posting. Let the stream of consciousness flow.

• 3 - Taloran

  Oct 03, 2003 at 2:13 pm

  I'm thinking I missed something important in this post. Letterman puts up with what? What song is who playing? Who is the bald-headed dumb-ass?
  
  Please forgive my confusion.

• 4 - Jim Carruthers

  Oct 03, 2003 at 2:47 pm

  hmm, cryptic ... moving my eyes while I'm dreaming.
  
  Despite the hype, we want to suck your big white pipe.
  
  Perhaps deciding "Is This Anything" would help.
  

• 5 - Mark Saleski

  Oct 03, 2003 at 3:08 pm

  ...the dog barks...do he bite?

• 6 - Eric Olsen

  Oct 03, 2003 at 3:14 pm

  My guess is we're talking about Michael Stipe - is he anything? His mother thinks so.
  
  Poodle bites - poodle chews it.

• 7 - Natalie Davis

  Oct 03, 2003 at 3:19 pm

  REM performed on last night's "Late Show." Inexplicably, Stipey had a big greenish-blue stripe painted on his forehead. I love REM, but this was plain weird. At the same time, it's heartening in a way to know that fortyish rockers can be as strange as the whippersnappers.

• 8 - Eric Olsen

  Oct 03, 2003 at 3:20 pm

  When in doubt, ask Nat, I always say.

• 9 - Eric Olsen

  Oct 03, 2003 at 3:22 pm

  I just heard a rumor that Michael is thinking of changing his last name from "Stipe" to "Stripe" and this was a trial balloon.
  
  He also could be supporting the Green Linnet Five

• 10 - Jim Carruthers

  Oct 03, 2003 at 3:30 pm

  what annoys me is the performance was another addition to coasting on their reputation.
  
  Sure he can do a wierd tribute to Darryl Hannah, but can he come up with a song you remember?
  
  No. Stipe and REM have reached that awful plateau where they are more famous for who they are rather than what they do.
  

• 11 - Natalie Davis

  Oct 03, 2003 at 3:37 pm

  Yup.
  
  Eric's Green Linnet 5 idea is almost believable. :)
  
  Poodle bites: Zappa's prescient thought about Tony Blair, perhaps?

• 12 - Mark Saleski

  Oct 03, 2003 at 4:04 pm

  i like REM, 'cuz they piss off canadians.
  
  ;-)
  

• 13 - Jim Carruthers

  Oct 03, 2003 at 4:34 pm

  It doesn't take REM to piss Canadians off. That's the way we are, eh? We just don't naturally express it.
  
  Just think if your life was directed by David Cronenberg.
  
  A man with a green stripe on his face would be the least of your worries.
  

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