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Okay, I’m going to be completely honest here, leaving myself open to various potential charges, but in the interest of open debate, I hope that what I say is taken in the spirit in which it is offered, friendly-like. The following is a very human and touching story – it …

Johnny Cash died early this morning in Nashville. As Dean writes, the official cause was complications from diabetes, but we all know he just didn’t have the strength without June – some love songs are sung with life. Although he couldn’t have been more contemporary, winning a Grammy (his eleventh) …

So I am finally taking a late lunch break from feverish 9/11 debates, keyboard punching, emotional fluctuations between profound sadness and eternal hope, and I pick up the Circuits secton of today’s NY Times, and goddamn if there isn’t the picture of yet another hosemonster running for the governor of …

When he isn’t pimping for the presidential campaign of Dennis Kucinich (now humming along to the tune of 0% public support!), 70-year-old Willie Nelson is making remarkably youthful music on a pace that would daunt a performer half his age. Willie’s latest outing is an exceptional duet with another grizzled …

Not only is the response to the RIAA’s Clean Slate amnesty program for file sharers not receiving a glowing reception from users or the press, but there has already been a lawsuit filed against it as “misleading”: Eric Parke, an executive at a mortgage lending business, filed a lawsuit against …

A friend of mine just sent me this with the following preface: David Applebaum was a close friend of my wife and officiated in March at our wedding. Last night, he and his daughter Nava, who was to be married today, were murdered in the second terror attack of the …

Infrasound shown to give people the willies: British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills — supporting popular suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange sensations. ….Lord …

This is a fascinating, discomfiting story: a self-avowed heterosexual Japanese baseball player appeared in a gay porn film while in college because he says he needed the money. He was blackballed by Japanese professional baseball. He was signed by the Indians, did well in the minors this year, and may …

Staying ahead of the digital pack, David Bowie launches his new album Reality today with a live 90-minute concert from the Riverside studios in Hammersmith, which will be beamed live by satellite to 22 movie theaters in Europe, including five in the UK: Cinemas in the rest of the world, …

I have to admit I missed the president’s speech last night – over the summer we pretty much get completely out of the TV habit other than sports and movies and by the time I thought of it, it was over. But a transcript is here and I am pleased …