It’s fitting that Brett Favre’s ceremony has done what nothing else could do today: break the stranglehold these damn Black Friday posts have held on Gawker’s sidebar.

Finest Kind, Samer.

If you watched Fargo last night, Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath” was played during the opening scene.

This is the funniest version of “Don’t you know who I am” I have every encountered.

Winter always ages you.

Many bands cover Led Zeppelin songs, but few do it as well as Heart!

Motherfuckers fired Dennis from The Vane.

Shortly after Jeff Buckley passed away, his friend, Chris Cornell, as well as others, spoke about his life.

Jeff Buckley would have been 49 today.

There has to be someone affiliated with Deadspin that can pull off the mannerisms and affectations of an adolescent attendee.

That’s ridiculous, but why would you want to go listen to Greg Hardy speak anyway?

Happiness and laughter to you, Kyle, and continue with the good work wherever you go.

Jeff Buckley with a beautiful cover of “Everyday People”.

Have you ever seem this? It’s the original RATM “touring van” which is on display at the R&R Hall of Fame. This video describes how the HOF, um, fumigated the van before they could display it. It’s actually a really cool exhibit.

Allen Toussaint’s songwriting credits include:

So it’s the 40th anniversary of the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald At this link is a 15 minute bit of a Twin Cities talk show host T.D. Mischke. This was during the 30th anniversary, and someone had sent him a recording he did back on the 20th anniversary. It was an interview with Mark C. Gumbinger, expert on the…

Toy “The Thumb” Caldwell was a veteran of two tours in Vietnam, and he was the recipient of the Purple Heart for injuries he suffered from a land mine explosion.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves to the minutes to hours?

One of my favorite Beatles songs “Here Comes The Sun”, written by the quiet one, George Harrison.