Waiting for Gouda

So Circuit City has a new series of television ads in which relatively normal looking people go out on dates with large, walking, talking pieces of audio/visual equipment. Remarkably, this is even stupider than it sounds.
In one spot, a woman and a giant digital camera sit at a table at a restaurant, or perhaps [...]

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Well, would you look at that. You see that thing over there?
Do you realize what this means?
Now I have to start to care about stuff.
You know, stuff like… global warming, and the national debt, and sexual predators. And “No Child Left Behind”! I don’t even know what the hell [...]

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The stupid music project continues.
Here’s a few more inane observations:
1) I think I have, to this point, criminally under-appreciated the Foo Fighters.
2) You haven’t lived until you’ve listened to 15 straight minutes of I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow.  That’s four versions: two by the Soggy Bottom Boys, one by Norman Blake (guitar instrumental), [...]

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So it snowed again last night, which made it the 94th day with measurable snow so far in 2008, which is really rather remarkable, when you stop to think about it.
I do believe that the world’s greatest living meteorologist, true American treasure, and one of my personal heroes, Tom Skilling, would probably say something like, [...]

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