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[cleolinda]

Y'all have got to hear this Unplugged version of "Wicked Game" that I nabbed off audiography. If nothing else, I finally understand the background vocals. (Let me know if the download runs out and I'll reload it.)

Pete Doherty is a hoax?  What?

Record jackpot winner laying low:

Even when the lucky individual or group realizes [that they've won], they might not leap into the public eye. "We have found ... that they tend to wait until they have sought legal counsel or financial counsel," Jim Haynes, acting director of the Nebraska Lottery, said of large jackpot winners.

Whoever it is, U-Stop store clerk Stacey Carey has a message for them. "If I sold the ticket to 'em I hope they'd share in the winnings — at least, even one-tenth of a percent would suit me just fine," Carey told AP Radio in a telephone interview.

And now you know why they're laying low.

kosher_jenny: "With all the fuss about about the NBC/youtube thing, people might not have noticed that a Midwest response to the Lazy Sunday feud has been released. And it is hilarious."

Federline says he's ready for backlash. I thought, in order to have a backlash, people had to like you in the first place...?

Hunter S. Thompson's widow starts up Woody Creeker magazine.

Belated valentines.

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The Onion on Frank Miller's Holy Terror, Batman! ("A cartoon targeting the Muslim world. I bet that'll go over great").

McSweeney's: I came for The Five Most Dangerous Children's Books Ever Written, According to Sean Hannity and stayed for When a Stranger E-Mails and The Elements of Spam.

Leonard Pitt (a columnist I used to really enjoy reading, back when I read actual newsprint newspapers) on losing our liberty:

The scene is the Little Falls branch of the Montgomery County Public Library in Bethesda, Md. Business is going on as usual when two men in uniform stride into the main reading room and call for attention. Then they make an announcement: It is forbidden to use the library's computers to view Internet pornography.

As people are absorbing this, one of the men challenges a patron about a Web site he is visiting and asks the man to step outside. [My note: keep in mind that nowhere is it stated that this particular man was actually viewing porn.] At this point, a librarian intervenes and calls the uniformed men aside. A police officer is summoned. The men leave. It turns out they are employees of the county's Department of Homeland Security and were operating way outside their authority.

[A]n agent of the government literally read over a man's shoulder, Big Brother like, and tried to prevent him from seeing what he had chosen to see.

Geoffrey Chaucer (who hath a blog) has decided to run an advice column and is now accepting supplicants: "Yow shal remayne anonymouse, like moste of the politicale poetrye in my period. Yow may signe yowr queries wyth an amusyng acronyme if it pleseth yow." 

Holocaust denier gets three years in jail, concedes he was wrong. "Wait! I--uh--HOLOGRAMS! I meant I didn't believe in holograms!"

dailydigestnews: A trailer for a movie I am rilly, rilly excited about.

Comments

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

Eeee Perfume!

What advice could Chaucer give you? "My friend, 'Bob', is still convinced that thy name is't pronounced 'gee-off', how shalt he regain his sanity?"

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

As a general rule, I just play "opposite day" with anything that ever comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth. He could say, "The sky is blue", and at this point, I'd argue that it's purple.

I hate that man more than I can even say. What a pompous, bigoted, assclown.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's not actual Sean Hannity--McSweeney's is Dave Eggers' parody magazine/site. Read it--it's hilarious. I think Madeleine L'Engle is accused of invading Poland, or something.

[livinthegoodlfe.livejournal.com]

Liberal alert! Liberal Alert!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Wait, what?

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

I don't think you have to be a liberal to dislike Sean Hannity. He's an asshole no matter what party you're in.

[livinthegoodlfe.livejournal.com]

Whatever you say

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to say that Sean Hannity is a good guy? AHAHA OH GOD! *Sobs with laughter*

[tavella.livejournal.com]

It's special sparkly fundamentalist crack they get, the mind bending abilities are amazing!

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

Oooo, a sparkly!

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

Pitt's right on. The way this administration has been acting is not in the interest of freedom, but at best, security. People don't want to say this, because they feel it undermines the soldiers' efforts overseas, but they are not fighting for our freedom. The Taliban, Al Queda...they don't pose a threat to our freedom. We're not going to be enslaved by guerilla armies from the middle east. We can be hurt...vexed. But our freedom, our ability to make out own decisions about things, are not at stake.

I disagree with the way the GOP has been acting. Some may feel it's in our best interests. Whatever. But let's not get into the blatant dogshit lie of invoking freedom. It's sick murder of the word.

Though, for the record, libraries should ban porn use from their computers. First amendment aside, browsing adults websites runs the risk of downloading viruses into the system.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, that's why I was careful to clarify that there was no indication the man in question was actually downloading porn, but rather that it was being used as an excuse to grab people.

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Just a little aside on my part.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

The libraries just need to use Macs. (Although there is now a worm— ONE worm!— for the Mac now. And it travels via instant message software, so libraries would just have to ban IMs.) Also, all library computers should have privacy hoods or something over the monitor, so that squeamish homeland security people don't have to see teh pr0n.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I disagree. Being blown apart certainly limits my freedom.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Hell, FARK.COM downloads viruses into my system. Granted, I have a poopy system but still.

And the local library literally changed some of my icon text from 'Whore' to ######. I mean seriously, WTF.

[camisado.livejournal.com]

I really don't get why places like Indiana or Michigan are referred to as the "Midwest". They are, at best, the "Mideast". Even Minnesota is pretty much just the middle - not very west. Is this just an example of how self-absorbed the East Coast is, that they think places like Indiana are waaaay out west? If you're not even far enough west to be in the Central time zone, there's no way you're "the Midwest."

[livinthegoodlfe.livejournal.com]

Illinois! Represent!

[kywhippets.livejournal.com]

The Midwest became termed so because at that point, Indiana was the west, for the US.  Check your US history.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

National Geographic begs to differ ;P

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[jdmx.livejournal.com]

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[livinthegoodlfe.livejournal.com]

"We have collaborated," he said. "But I'm not going to put the songs on this album because it's like, 'Respect me first; then I'll show you what I've done with my wife.'"

Ohhhh, is that what it's like?
Wait..what?

[kywhippets.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the Chris Isaak fix!  (I love that song.)

[mllemoony.livejournal.com]

Lazy Muncie is awesome, and totally owns Lazy Monday. I could be biased, though - Indiana represent!

[violaphile.livejournal.com]

thanks for the chris isaak song. love the song--the man is a little special. my violin teacher, who happens to be rather attractive, played a show with him the christmas before last for a pbs special. before the show he approached her and asked her if should would like to wear a christmas bikini for him. she told him that she would have to shave seven times.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Federline says he's ready for backlash. I thought, in order to have a backlash, people had to like you in the first place...?

Yeah, it's pretty much just plain lashing right now.

[pink-ranger-rox.livejournal.com]

He has released his single PopoZao on his website. It got 2 million hits in eight days, he said, which proves there's interest.

Yeah, because of this little treasure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Ys46KA4xw). People liked William Hung too, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't because he had an amazing talent.

Hee! I still love those hand moves! They are FIRE!

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

The Last Stand

Must it be so dramatic?

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

Whoever it is, U-Stop store clerk Stacey Carey has a message for them. "If I sold the ticket to 'em I hope they'd share in the winnings — at least, even one-tenth of a percent would suit me just fine," Carey told AP Radio in a telephone interview.

Doesn't the store that sold the ticket get a piece of the action? His employer should share what he got. Geezopete!

[sualocin.livejournal.com]

Hello! I don't know if you like Jones Soda [although I can't think of what's not to like, mmmmsugar], but they have lipbalms (http://www.limelitemarketing.com/buy_prod.asp?cat=1) now.

They smell delish.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

My sister's addicted to their cream soda, and she kinda scares me when she's on it. Sugar, for real.

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

I live in Muncie. Now everybody knows how SPESHUL it is. :/

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

For some reason I got a "this is a bad name on the Issac tune. Wouldn't load.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I got it to work. Try it again?

[bacardibreezer7.livejournal.com]

Quoth the Federline article:

He has released his single PopoZao on his website. It got 2 million hits in eight days, he said, which proves there's interest.

Yeah, but that's only coz people like you Cleo posted the link so the rest of us could go there and make fun of it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think it was Defamer posting the link originally that did it--they're apparently some crazy media empire now, with Gawker and Wonkette and what all.

[maetang.livejournal.com]

Woo! Thanks for the unplugged Chris Isaak.

I once saw him live at the Hard Rock Cafe in Singapore. He wore this amazing mirrored suit, which was basically little bits of mirror sewn all over a white suit. At one point, between songs, he stopped and said: "If you think this [suit] is good, you should see the underwear!" :^D

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I am in no way surprised this happened in Montgomery County. That place is a magnet for weird shit

[ceasethestorm.livejournal.com]

Ugh! Can't get the Chris Isaak download to work. Clicking on the "download now" button only seems to be refreshing the page. Am I inept or is it just a bug?

[ceasethestorm.livejournal.com]

False alarm. It turns out AOL is just treacherous.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, dude, *I* could have told you that...

[ceasethestorm.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. I was being optimistic, holding out hope that maybe, just MAYBE, it might work. But no. Woe.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it works for me--try emptying your cache?

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I am at a loss to understand why that woman thinks that selling someone a lottery ticket entitles you to any of their winnings...

In other news, I think I actually recognize that barn in the Lazy Muncie ap. Along with a lot of other stuff in there (my grandmother lives near Muncie). It's kinda freaky.

yahoo avatar..

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tsuki_tenshi/]

hey m just wondrin how u got ur yahoo avatar that big.. Its kinda frustrating having my avatars so small... I want it in detail dammit! *sob* hehe