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Duncan Mitchel
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Apparently they were and are also big in Mexico; I wonder if that popularity extends elsewhere.  Japan, maybe?

I bought their first album (on vinyl) based on enthusiastic reviews and the picture of Joe D'Allesandro on the cover.  I loved the band, but hated Morrisey's voice and his lyrics.  Every so often over the years I'd give it another try and feel exactly the same way.  When I heard a local cover band play some of their

Then don't see it, duh.

If there's going to be a surcharge, let it be on the "loud" showings.

Yo soy Tonto.  Todos somos Tonto.

These kids nowadays!  They got no respect.  Why, when I was a boy, Hollywood made good movies about chick folksingers.  Biopics were accurate — remember Night and Day"?  They don't make 'em like that anymore.  And chicks were treated with dignity.  Like … like … well, I forget, but those were the days.  Nowadays it's

"Actually, beyond a few courthouses, there’s not much of a government at all."  AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Someone had to say that with a straight face?

I was around 40 when I read Ender's Game.  I'm just too old to have been a 12-year-old gamer when it was published.  I thought it was surprisingly good, very homoerotic (and I'd have caught that when I was 12, too, though I wouldn't have called it homoerotic, I'd just have been stirred by it), and after watching

Well played indeed!  I would have settled for "Ayn Rand's timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice."