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Love is all around
Reg Presley, lead singer of the Troggs, has passed away at 71. Presley was born Reg Ball in Andover, Hampshire. After leaving school at 15, he played the guitar in a local skiffle group, but by day...
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Something Wild
Posting about Reg Presley’s death put in my head one of my favorite versions of “Wild Thing” (albeit I’m pretty sure with completely different lyrics), Sister Carol’s version from Something Wild. It...
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Pussy
As you may have heard, the idiots at Hasbro let us morons on the Internet choose a new Monopoly token. The choice was a cat. The iron is gone. Now I’m a fan of cats, I think cats are great, but what...
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Smile
I’m not usually that impressed with the things people do with the snow that has landed on parked vehicles. Frankly, as far as I can tell, such artwork tends these days to involve penises. Look, to each...
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Oh no, it hurts!
Richard Hell & The Voidoids (Christgau memorably described Hell’s singing as evincing an “indifference to vocal amenities like key and timbre”) for you this fine morning. Filed under: General...
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Posts come in spurts
So yesterday I put up the first post here in some time. And it just happened to be a video of Richard Hell & the Voidoids. Turns out, my spidey-sense was working overtime, because it turns out it’s...
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Equal-Opportunity Jackassery
I was just walking across West 51st Street and spotted a deaf guy who was simultaneously walking and animatedly (that’s a word, right?) signing at his smartphone, obviously in the middle of a...
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Headline of the Day
ACE OF BASE GUY WAS A NEO-NAZI, LIFE HAS LOST ALL MEANING It’s a must-read. I saw the sign, indeed. Piece of shit. I hate fucking Nazis. Filed under: General Complaining, Life Lessons, Music, You've...
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Huh?
So I was pub-crawling my way up 9th Avenue and I stopped into Billymark’s West. Now I love Billymark’s West. Fantastic bar. Perfect stop on one’s way up 9th Ave., even though I was wearing a suit, but...
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And speaking of Nazis…
Prince Harry is in town today. And he’s also headed to the Jersey Shore to scope out the Sandy damage. Maybe when he’s in Seaside, Jwowww (how many Ws in Jwoww? ask Otto.) will take him out. Filed...
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Thoroughbred Name of the Day
“Mela Dramatically” Broke her maiden yesterday at Belmont. (Daughter of “Theatrically,” of course.) Filed under: Horses
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Obit of the Day
Now I don’t know anything about this dude Mott Green, but if the headline is any indication, he led a distinctive (if short) life: Mott Green, Jewish anarchist chocolatier, dies aged 47 I’m too cheap...
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The M Train
One of the reasons that I needed to get back to posting, which I’ve intended to do for some time, is that I came across this image today that apparently was snapped on the M train. Now I used to ride...
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Canucks
One of the problems with the hiatus from posting is that I’ve totally missed out on commenting on the brilliant crackhead Mayor Rob Ford saga playing out up in Toronto. So, to catch up, here goes:...
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Rant
Today the New York Times, formerly known as the Paper of Record, put a picture of a woman’s dead body above the fold on the front page of the Sunday paper (and no, I’m not linking to it). Not to sound...
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Guns & Ammunition
Junior Murvin, who originally sang the fantastic reggae song Police & Thieves (later popularized by The Only Band That Matters), has passed on. Born Murvin Junior Smith – most likely in 1946,...
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WWOZ
Last night I turned on WWOZ for a bit. Now if you don’t know what WWOZ is, you should learn. It is a great radio station out of New Orleans that, thanks to the wonders of the interwebs, the Yankee...
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Half Full
It’s the holiday season, so I thought I would share a heart-warming story. Blind dude falls onto subway tracks; seeing-eye dog (named Orlando) follows his guy down to the tracks; construction worker...
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