Activision Reports Sluggish Sales For Sousaphone Hero
Response to Sousaphone Hero on video-gaming message boards has been tepid at best. "That controller is like 100 pounds even though its [sic] only plastic," wrote mastagamer457, a moderator on one Sousaphone Hero message thread. "I think I screwed up my shoulder pretty bad.""I played the career mode for three hours and kept feeling like I was playing the same annoying circus tune over and over," kiLLlah_steVe of Columbus, OH wrote. "On one song, you're forced to play the same two notes back and forth for 96 measures."
Butterfly Fuck-Swing Filled With Junk Mail
"The wife and I sure had some crazy times on that thing before we had the baby," said Nathan Moscone, 37, motioning towards the adult toy, upon which he had just hung his suit jacket. "But it seems like forever since I turned her upside down in that thing and dripped hot wax onto her vulva. Maybe we can give it another go after we finish the deck. That's taking up all my spare time at the moment." The butterfly fuck-swing features nylon straps, padded stirrups, a swiveling hook, a crossbar Klein-Moscone used to grasp in the throes of ecstasy, and, more recently, several unread issues of O, The Oprah Magazine.
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from Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson:
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from ny/nz:
When I’ve got time to kill in a bar or restaurant, I like looking around and trying to guess all the stories that are unfolding at the tables around me. The first dates and business dinners are easy enough to spot, as are the family get-togethers, the birthdays, and the anniversaries. The more intriguing stories are usually the quieter pairs, the ones sharing a drink in silence, barely making eye contact or eating mechanically and exchanging what appear to be desultory remarks about the side dishes and the promptness of the service. Are they old friends, happy to spend time in one another’s company, no longer bearing the burden of providing constant entertainment and fun? A long-established couple, communicating in the code of multi-year relationships, in which a seemingly throwaway comment about the crispness of the green beans carries with it layers upon layers of meaning about sacrifices, bad choices, and disappointments past?
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HearWhere is a search engine helping you find live music playing all over the world. With more than one million shows from over one million artists, HearWhere not only shows you who is playing nearby, but also plays the artists music, and links to the artists myspace page.
it lists 810 shows in madison this week alone.
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hushie is an mp3 search engine.
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jeff weiss' why obama essay on largehearted boy is one of the best in the series i've read thus far.
"Of course, any cursory analysis of American history shows that we shouldn’t want anything but the elite for our highest office. In fact, if our founding fathers were tried by today’s standards of the Republican Party, they’d probably be decried as mackerel-eating, New-England-Courant-reading, snuff-snorting nancy boys. After all, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson & Co. were polymaths in powdered wigs who worshipped French Enlightenment philosophers and devised the electoral college and a system of checks and balances precisely because they feared mob mentality. Hell, Americans didn’t even popularly elect senators until 1913. If anything, this country is built on a bedrock foundation of elitism, with some of our most lauded presidents (The Roosevelts, Woodrow Wilson, JFK) emerging from a Patrician class."
also from lhb:
The San Francisco Chronicle interviews Haruki Murakami.
Q: Readers are very passionate about your work. Why do you think fiction matters to people so much?
A: That's a big question. I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching. Sometimes it's not easy. You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue. You cannot do that while you are asleep. When the dream stops, it stops forever. You cannot continue to dream that same dream. But if you are a writer, you can do that. That is a great thing, to keep on dreaming while you are awake.
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With over 50,000 posters, the CSPG archive is the largest collection of Post World War II graphics in the United States.
we are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. /thomas jefferson, (4/2/1790)
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Because of the fame of his children's books (and because we often misunderstand these books) and because his political cartoons have remained largely unknown, we do not think of Dr. Seuss as a political cartoonist. But for two years, 1941-1943, he was the chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM (1940-1948), and for that journal he drew over 400 editorial cartoons.
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The first attempt to do bodily harm to a President was against Jackson. Jackson ordered the dismissal of Robert B. Randolph from the Navy for embezzlement. On May 6, 1833, Jackson sailed on USS Cygnet to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he was to lay the cornerstone on a monument near the grave of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother. During a stopover near Alexandria, Virginia, Randolph appeared and struck the President. He then fled the scene with several members of Jackson's party chasing him, including the well known writer Washington Irving. Jackson decided not to press charges.
On January 30, 1835, a more serious attack occurred in the Capitol. Jackson was crossing the Capitol Rotunda after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis when Richard Lawrence approached Jackson. Lawrence aimed two pistols at Jackson, which both misfired. Jackson then attacked Lawrence with his cane, prompting his aides to restrain him. Others present, including David Crockett, restrained and disarmed Lawrence, who was clearly deranged.
Richard Lawrence gave the doctors several reasons for the shooting. He had recently lost his job painting houses and somehow blamed Jackson. He claimed that with the President dead, "money would be more plenty"—a reference to Jackson’s struggle with the Bank of the United States—and that he "could not rise until the President fell." Finally, he informed his interrogators that he was actually a deposed English King—Richard III, specifically, dead since 1485—and that Jackson was merely his clerk. He was deemed insane, institutionalized, and never punished for his assassination attempt.
Jackson's statue in the Rotunda is placed in front of the doorway in which the attempt occurred.
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some words brilliantly strung together by john adams:
A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary. /Vol. I, letter XXVI Ch. 4 Opinions of Philosophers : Dr. Price
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. /Letter to his son, John Quincy Adams (13 November 1816)
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via nyt:
Classical Ghosts, Audible Once Again
...the cylinders contain the earliest existing recordings of works by Bach, Wagner, Verdi, Chopin, Schumann and others. The performers include several noted composer-pianists: Sergei Taneyev, a pupil of Tchaikovsky’s who played the premiere of his Second Concerto; Anton Arensky, playing his much-loved Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor just months after it was written; and Paul Pabst, a Liszt pupil and dedicatee of pieces by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. They also include the legendary pianist Josef Hofmann in his first known recordings and singers who performed in the premieres of operas by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Some 22 of the artists, well known in their day, have not been represented on recordings until now, including Taneyev.
With each cylinder able to record for only two to four minutes, the release will be limited to snippets: 90 of music and 4 with just spoken words. Those include Tolstoy reading from his work and what may be the voice and whistling of Tchaikovsky. The musical recordings in the release run from 1890 to 1923.
For Some in the Military, Danger Is Seen Off Duty
So many members of the armed forces have been dying on sport bikes like the Ninja that the Navy and Marines have made special training mandatory for sport bike riders this year. In one weekend in September, the Navy lost four men in sport bike accidents.
To Counter Problems of Food Aid, Try Spuds
Grains like wheat and rice have long been staples of diets in most of the world and the main currency of food aid. Now, a number of scientists, nutritionists and aid specialists are increasingly convinced that the potato should be playing a much larger role to ensure a steady supply of food in the developing world.
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Contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan delivers this Avenali Lecture on the stories of four familiar plant species: the apple,the tulip, the potato, and cannabis.)
Stir-fried Shrimp With Chestnuts
Like figs, lemons and apples, chestnuts are free for the picking in many areas where they grow. Those areas used to include much of the United States, until a blight wiped out almost all the trees over a few decades. Though chestnuts make their appearance here each fall, they are imported, mostly from Europe and China.
A California Ballot Measure Offers Rights for Farm Animals
“This is a well-intended initiative for animals with some very negative unintended consequences for people,” said Julie Buckner, a spokeswoman for Californians for Safe Food, the leading anti-Proposition 2 group. “It’s going to wipe out the California egg farmers, and it’s going to raise the food costs for consumers. And this is at a time when our economy is hurting.”
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