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“I couldn’t agree with him more.”

Scheduled appearances by: Monotonix, DMBQ, Spike from Queens, Associate Producer Mike, and Tom Scharpling (Maybe. I don’t know). Fingers crossed they have the Vortex album by Christmas.

Design Classic: The London Underground Map

A 25-minute video about the design of the London subway map stimulated by a European turn towards modernity in London architectural design aesthetic. Don’t think this is just about maps because it isn’t. This is about the ethos of Romanticism: distance, diagrams, and navigation.

Special thumbs up by the way to maps. Especially fantasy ones.

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“Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” by The Jam

According to this picture from *The New York Times Kenny Chesney spit tobacco into pages of my 11th grade Health class textbook. He’s playing three chords like it’s a flying-kick guitar solo though. This is a song he wrote entitled “I’m a Bad Boy (with a Country Tan)” and it goes out to YOU Renee Zellweger.

*The New York Times is a city newspaper distributed daily at Barnes & Nobles bookstores.

Esquire’s “25 Sexiest Women in Film” contest has both the good sense to include Lisa Bonet in Angel Heart and the balls to not include Salma Hayek in any movie she’s ever been in (even Frida). The winner though, hands down, should be Raquel Welch in 100 Rifles, because that right there is the definition of impossible youth.

The New Yorker refuses to publish my submissions to their cartoon caption contest. I have no idea why.

SlapClap caption:

The U.S. dollar originated in 1792. So what the f@#k is this?

Welcome to JoethePlumber.com. By the way, that’s not him and the real him? Well he seems like sorta an a@#hole ringer.

Did not realize: that dude is the same as THIS dude. Oh but it makes sense now. Although, Rachel Getting Married is not exactly Labyrinth Adebimpe. Never forget you’re a rock star.

The Wired magazine live blog.

NYPost Q&A:

“Someone showed it to me on YouTube. It wasn’t like Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin, that’s for sure. And ‘Saturday Night Live’ hasn’t been funny for a long time. They’ve asked me to do the show a ton of times. I used to watch it when Eddie Murphy was there and Joe Piscopo and Bill Murray. I don’t even know who’s on the show now.”

Piscopo? Oh that’s right, I forgot he produces Entourage.

“I Can’t Stop Thinking About It” - 07.12.08 - Brooklyn

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Normally my shaky cam work would be frowned upon, but I think here it captures the frenetic conclusion to The Dirtbombs free show at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn over the summer.

Round 2 this week with TV on the Radio

Oct 14: Brooklyn Masonic Temple, Brooklyn, NY, USA [Opening for TV on the Radio]
Oct 15: Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ, USA
Oct 16: Southpaw, Brooklyn, NY, USA

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Advice to fashion models: don’t pack for Miami if you know there’s a layover in New York.

Peter O’Toole dancing like Niles Crane on extacy. And more …

(pictured clockwise from top right: Alexander O’Neal, Luther Vandross, Ron Isley, The Whispers, Freddie Jackson (2), Peabo Bryson)

… wear suits when they sang love songs.

In the 80’s R&B was far different than it is today. First of all every lead singer looked like your father, dressed like your father, and sang sex songs to your mother while you were still in the room. And they had one other thing in common- no not tax fraud. It’s that all of them bothered to wear a nice suit on-stage. So what’s the matta with that? Was it always a classy suit? Were the fashions always understated? NO. HELL NO- but it WAS a suit.

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The Japanese are cool people, EXCEPT when you turn into a werewolf on their ass. Don’t wake up the next morning thinking it’s all gravy … cause it ain’t.

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This bit of conversation was overheard recently at a local watering hole:

“You go on ahead. I put some tunes in. I’m gonna hang around a little bit- hear how well it goes over.”

SlapClap presents: how well it went over.

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There’s a New York Times article too.

Howard Stern is getting (got?) married today. I know this because today was also my first day at Sirius Satellite Radio working on a 5-day “project.” So you see, I “learned something new everyday.” I also learned INXS is a Nicholas Cage away from looking exactly like what I thought Rock music was in 1995. And that Little Stevie pronounces it Little Steven around the office.

Good luck Howard! I’m sure the ceremony won’t have anything to do with what you talk about on the radio the rest of your career.

From Lainey Gossip:

The truth is Lauren is the Hollywood American dream. Blonde, cute, perky, wholesome, virginal enough…

18 – 25 year olds want to BE Lauren Conrad.

Don’t lie. Some of you reading out there want to BE Lauren Conrad while Lauren Conrad is “being” Lauren Conrad on tv.

Does your head hurt?

But Duana’s point: didn’t we all want to BE someone else at that age?

I wanted to BE Winona Ryder. Who did you want to be?

Uncle! Let’s call a truce. Internet you stop saying things like this and I’ll stop claiming I know things then looking them up on you later. Oh, last thing: if you don’t agree to this one of these bitches is gonna die.

See what my brain just did? Now watch this.

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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(Table Read)

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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I can’t watch anymore of these Sarah Palin interviews with Katie Couric. For God’s sake make them stop. I’m as embarrassed watching this as I am The Maury Povich Show. I feel like I just ordered a beer from Shelly Tambo. The thing is I almost feel sorry for her. I mean she clearly just made a miscalculation. Instead of putting the private plane on eBay she should have said “thanks but no thanks” to being named Vice-President. (applause) Am I right? (applause) George Bush! (applause)

Hey I get it babe. If John McCain asked me to be envoy to China you think I’d say no? And if 15-seconds after my first press interview some snot from the AP asks me a three rejoinder question about how to hold China accountable for human right’s violations ‘while at the same time they hold over a trillion dollars of American debt,’ suddenly I’m noticing just how allergic my Down syndrome baby is to contiguous states. (I’m not sexist)

…That’s the news, and I… am… out of here!

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Please, please, pretty please Daily Show keep following these old Jews around during the Presidential election. It’s the realest voter segment on television news.