I haven't seen it in a while, but I remember the repetition being pretty funny. Just because no one seems to be entirely sure what those words actually mean in this context, so the staffer just really aggressively owns it to convince herself and people around her that what she's doing actually constitutes a job.

Real name-making idiocy.

Real name-making idiocy.

That's awesome. I think the Earthsea quartet was the only thing I read with my mother where she was as interested in the story as I was.

That's awesome. I think the Earthsea quartet was the only thing I read with my mother where she was as interested in the story as I was.

You can never have too many deluxe editions of Nightmare Before Christmas.

You can never have too many deluxe editions of Nightmare Before Christmas.

The "that money could have gone to charity!" thing always strikes me as pretty ridiculous. Like all those Amanda Palmer fan bucks would have ended up going to UNICEF if she hadn't launched a Kickstarter project.

The "that money could have gone to charity!" thing always strikes me as pretty ridiculous. Like all those Amanda Palmer fan bucks would have ended up going to UNICEF if she hadn't launched a Kickstarter project.

She's broken up with Ribisi now, apparently. She did a pretty candid interview for a London music free sheet recently about the break-up and her nervous breakdown and stuff:

She's broken up with Ribisi now, apparently. She did a pretty candid interview for a London music free sheet recently about the break-up and her nervous breakdown and stuff:

You're doing good work, La Pipe.

You're doing good work, La Pipe.

I'm not a huge fan of tha 'Parm, as no one calls her, but is she really riding on Neil Gaiman's coat-tails? Obviously there's that obnoxious Sonny & Cher tour they're doing, but she seems to be one of those artists that hasn't had a lot of press love in a while but has an incredibly devoted, largely critic-proof…

I'm not a huge fan of tha 'Parm, as no one calls her, but is she really riding on Neil Gaiman's coat-tails? Obviously there's that obnoxious Sonny & Cher tour they're doing, but she seems to be one of those artists that hasn't had a lot of press love in a while but has an incredibly devoted, largely critic-proof…

The place: REM concert, Hyde Park.

The place: REM concert, Hyde Park.

Pretty much the same setlist in London last night, but amazing show. Ridiculously fun.

Pretty much the same setlist in London last night, but amazing show. Ridiculously fun.

It is a spectacle. The time I saw them on the Yoshimi tour recreated the sensation of being on ecstasy, for me. I haven't been as blown away by them live since then, but I can see why people just babble about confetti and balloons.