JUUUUUUUUST TAKE IT! TAKEITTAKEITTAKEITTAKEITTAKEIT!

IT WAS A GOOF!

Cenk Uygur is the head reporter of The Young Turks, a popular online liberal newscast.

Ouch, I can relate to that first one too.

"'I was hanging out with my friends and we went to a state fair.'"
"'And we're walking, and one of the things they were doing was a display on monster trucks, and one of the trucks was Ms. B. Haven. And I said 'That's going to be one of the characters in my movie.'"

Even if you don't like Zeppelin's, there's no denying that Zappa's version of Stairway is pretty great.

@Melkor: SCI + double live album = sounds like you got Carnival '99. Probably their worst official release by a wide margin.

One of my favorite memories of 4th grade is when the special class went around to each classroom performing "Whoomp! (There It Is)". It was painful, in that the effort required to keep from laughing my ass off almost made my lungs collapse.

@A Harvard Professor: There's at least one *cough* around here.

If you ever want to see hyperbole at its best (worst?), go check out Leonard Pierce's thing about Billy Joel on his ludickid LiveJournal page.

Vacation and Christmas hold up well; European and Vegas don't.

2010 is Denton's year. Between this album and the Lips at NX35, we're getting a big old thumbtack on the music map. And we will rise up and take our rightful place as the other bookend closing in the black hole of a music scene that is Dallas.

What college accepted you?

Based on tonight's episode, she should rock the ponytail more often.

DS/DFW
In high school I had every official Dire Straits release, even the Twisting by the Pool EP (and I didn't even have a record player).

God, that was one of the best interviews ever. When he said he wanted to play a dumbass character with "a can of soup on my head" and flailed his arms around making that "bleh" sound, I completely lost my shit. That was how long ago and I still remember that? I can't remember any late-night talk show interview with as…

I AM MIGHTY!

If his name is Viridian
Wouldn't that make him, you know, viridian? and not teal?

When the String Cheese Incident broke up in 2007
I lamented the fact that I had never gone to see them live, and promised myself that if they ever got back together I'd go to wherever they were playing that was closest to where I live. That turned out to be a one-off reunion at Rothbury this past summer. I made the…

I got it for Christmas and plan to get to it soon, but I just started Under the Dome, so it could be a couple weeks.