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Sorry, folks, but the Grateful Dead, at their best, were as good as any group of musicians out there. I suspect that the selection of cuts played on the radio was an elitist attempt to discourage mass popularity. The Fade - Road on the Skull & Roses is without competition as the finest segue in all of rock n' roll. It Hurts Me Too, on the Europe 72 album is a masterpiece which transcended genres. I don't play entire albums of theirs during the long stretches when I am abstaining from drug use, but every one of their recorded concerts has at least one song which doesn't suck when I'm at baseline.
Of Boys and Men
Every culture has its own unique Rites of Passage. These Rites demarcate childhood from adulthood, separating boys from men and girls from women. As with most sexually differentiated behavior, male Rites of Passage tend to be more dramatic and well defined than the Rites of Passage for girls. ...
Bob, if a CFL costs 4-5 times as much, and lasts 4-5 times as long, then you are ahead by the labor of 3-4 bulb replacements. I started using screw-in flourescents back when they weren't compact but took ring tubes for that exact reason, in locations where changing them was a problem such as the back stairwell.
Back when I was doing industrial sales I found that blindness to replacement labor reduced the attractiveness of long-lasting components.
The Assault on Reason
In 2008, even the poorest Americans have indoor plumbing, color TVs, video game systems, iPods, more than enough to eat, and vast quantities of leisure time. We have come to this state of material wealth by the judicious application of science, technology, and capitalism, all of which rest on a...
Caller ID was even more effective back when it was brand new. The fellow who made an obscene phonecall to the mother of someone a coworker was dating back then probably didn't even know it existed until she called him back and asked if she had time for a shower before he came over and [did what he said he would do].
Word of the Day
Soundboard - A collection of dialogue snippets from a movie that you can use to make prank calls Sample Soundboards - Napoleon Dynamite, Michael Jackson, Jack Black, Howard Stern and many more Office Space Soundboard [ via Boing Boing ] (But remember kids, prank calls are fairly dangerous in thi...
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