January 2008

No one tells me anything

The biggest music-magazine copy editing news in years breaks out, and I don’t find out until five days later.

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Sousaphone roundup

OK, so with today’s update, The Onion now leads as the world’s best source for sousaphone-related fake news:
August 1, 2007
Activision Reports Sluggish Sales for Sousaphone Hero
January 16, 2008
I Strongly Disagree With Connellsville High School’s Choice for the John Philip Sousa Award

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Exactly

While waiting for my laptop to be repaired yesterday, I stumbled across this gem, which I cannot wait to bust out in the middle of a discussion like this one sometime:
These “no-nonsense” solutions of yours just don’t hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel.
—Superman, to Warmaker One, in JLA: Ultramarine [...]

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…goeth before the fall, etc., etc.

A shining example of why I’m just as reluctant to label myself a Democrat as a Republican, courtesy of the head pharisee himself of our holier-than-thou friends at Daily Kos:
So it’s caucus night. The Democratic Party website hums along, churning out results efficiently and without a single hiccup.
The Republican Party website crashes.
Democrats tallied their votes [...]

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