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There’s a New York Times article too.

Wetting your appetite for the all new season of 30 Rock here are a couple of bonus clips from the Season 2 DVD, courtesy Pregnant Cornbread.

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And wouldn’t I be remiss if I didn’t recommend you check out my weekly 30 Rock recaps over at TVwithoutPity.com? Yes. Yes I would.

Two big albums landed in our laps this month: Metallica’s Death Magnetic and TV on the Radio’s Dear Science, and they’re as different as their album names suggest…

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Wiig we love you.

“It’s not enought that you just have talent, you got to have character too.”

From the NYT obit (not written by Bruce Weber):

“We are such spendthrifts with our lives,” Mr. Newman once told a reporter. “The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.”

More Letterman. Keep this up and I’ll have to devote a Tumblr to you, ya old coot.

Updated: A NYPost story on the pissed off CBS execs who didn’t like Letterman using a live feed of CBS News during his show.

Asked if CBS officials had a problem with Letterman using the internal news feed, a spokeswoman for “The Evening News” refused to address the issue. But several CBS News executives - who asked not to be identified - said that the stunt did not go down well within the news division.

“If we had done something like that to him, someone around here would end up getting fired,” one said.

News officials found out Letterman was using the internal feed shortly after it showed up on an internal CBS feed carrying the “Late Show” taping. “They were pretty aggravated,” a CBS News source told The Post. “But they were not about to start a fight with Letterman,” the source said. “We’re in the middle of a heavy, heavy news cycle and Letterman is Letterman. “He does whatever he wants and always has.”

You may have heard about construction on the world’s newest, biggest penis substitute Burj Dubai? It’s so big it gives the world an erection. Anyway this is an actual view of the city of Dubai - not a photoshop - from the construction site on a foggy day (another view here). It’s like the missing chapter from an Italo Calvino book. Dreamy.

The photography of Cornelia Hediger. Strongly recommend giving it a look through.

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Oct 05: Le National, Montreal, Canada
Oct 06: Barrymore’s, Ottawa, Canada
Oct 07: Lee’s Palace, Toronto, Canada
Oct 08: Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge, MA, USA
Oct 09: The Fillmore at Irving Plaza, New York, NY, USA [WFMU Free Music Show]
Oct 10: Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Oct 11: 9:30 Club, Washington DC, USA
Oct 12: Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA, USA
Oct 14: The Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Oct 15: The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, USA
Oct 16: The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Oct 17: First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Oct 18: Metro, Chicago, IL, USA

Wire complete with new tour, new album, even new YouTube channel. Maybe it makes up for not collecting royalties for that 1994 Elastica jack move. Speaking of which, I’m not accusing The Cure of anything (anything!), but don’t those first few chords from “Ex Lion Tamer” sound a little familiar- like “Just Like Heaven” familar?

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My father shot me this look once in ‘87 when I taped over a Marvin Hagler fight with WWF matches. Minus the gun of course.