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CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR HALLOWEEN
Here's a listing of some good scary tracks from the vast world of classical music. Visit the
WUOL playlist page to see the frightening music I played this morning!
DID MY EARS DECEIVE ME?
Heard a top of the hour new report on the US Economy's
7.2% growth on NPR yesterday. The reporter cited
President Bush's tax cuts as a significant reason for the growth (!).
I was driving at the time. About lost control of the car. NPR said that tax cuts were good? Holy Freeholee!
What's next, Susan Stamberg subbing for Rush?
UPDATE: The Dems, always with their finger on the pulse of the nation, shrug
off the tax cut's good effects.
IS THIS THE NEW STAR WARS VILLIAN?
Meet General Grevous.
Major Apathy to follow....
UPDATE:
www.dictionary.com gives the definition of grevous as "Causing grief, pain, or anguish: a grievous loss. Serious or dire; grave: a grievous crime. "
While campaigning in Denver yesterday, Howard Dean called himself a
metrosexual. My question:
DID ANYBODY VIDEOTAPE THE QUOTE??!!
I know a certain Republican incumbant's campaign staff who would like to use it.
I'm whitening my teeth by wearing a special teeth mold filled with chemicals. It's 2 hours a day for 3 weeks. And it's a real, literal, pain.
My teeth are naturally sensitive anyway, and the stuff I have to put in my mouth to reverse the years of coffee drinking (I'm working on a home-brew mocha cappuccino right now) makes my teeth and gums ache.
It was worse yesterday. It appears to be better today after I took the things out.
Today is Day # 3 and I swear I can see a noticable improvement in my teeth's whiteness already. I can't believe I have 2 and a half more weeks to go!
Is there any argument now that brush fires like the one in California now should
not be seen as a possible terrorist threat? If a terrorist knew what he was doing, a match dropped in the right place at the right time (or several matches dropped in several places) could cause havoc. There wouldn't be many lives lost, but still it would bring a huge financial loss to a community.
Who's to say that terrorism didn't play a part in California's current crisis?
Before we get to any meaty posts today, it's time to get the blog traffic up a bit! So I'm (not) proud to present today's Top 10 List!
TOP TEN LIST WITH POPULAR NAMES AND WORDS/PHRASES IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET THE TRAFFIC UP!!!:
10) Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears doing it.
9) California fires are Arnold Schwarzenegger's fault.
8) California fires are Grey Davis' fault.
7) Rush Limbaugh did drugs with Courtney Love.
6) Cameron Diaz nude. Britney Spears nude. Rush Limbaugh nude.
5) Saddam Hussein found in love nest with Donald Rumsfeld.
4) Howard Dean. Howard Dean rulz. Howard Dean sux.
3) Bushitler. Bush suXors. Lick Bush in 2004.
2) Star Wars Episode III script.
1) Glenn Reynolds. Instapundit. Little Green Footballs. James Lileks. Andrew Sullivan. Hello Kitty.
Folks love lists! It doesn't matter what the subject is, if you put it in a list catagorizing the worst to best, you've printed gold!
So to give
Blog's Your Uncle a head start in raking in the hits, pings and visits, here's my first
Top Ten List!!!!
TOP TEN EVENTS OF OCTOBER 28, 2003 WE'LL NEVER HEAR ABOUT:
10) Dan Rather knicks himself while shaving this morning. Silently vows to do a story exposing Gillette for the Sadists they really are.
9) Democrat Presidential candidate and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean attempts to suppress a chili dog burp while orating at a public appearance. Attempt fails, resulting in Dean saying the term "tax cut" like "tax cu- *urp* -ut."
8) The skull of Richard Nixon shifts slightly to the left in his coffin.
7) George Lucas briefly turns over in his mind a new idea: "The Attacked Cloned Jar-Jars Strike Back." Quiclky dismisses idea and returns to work on the script of "Indiana Jones 5: A New Hope."
6) I eat a late lunch.
5) Carolyn Zeta-Jones finally wakes up and asks herself what the hell was she thinking.
4) Eminen decides to announce he'll soon change his name to "Puffy Marshmellow."
3) World-wide interest in trainspotting hits a historic low.
2) Long time Cub fan Hank Grainger of Berwin, IL, predicts the Cubs lose in 4 games in next season's NLCS.
1) A manuscript score of JS Bach's completed Mass in b minor is discovered by a janitor in a Leipzig mansion. Uses it to level out a table in the servants kitchen by sticking it under a table leg.
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I'm very excited to finally have
Raiders of the Lost Ark available on DVD. I'll be even more excited when I can afford the buy the damn thing! (I can take or leave the other two Indiana Jones movies, although the DVD extras on them may make it worth getting the whole trilogy.)
But why haven't they (and when I write "they" I mean that large grey nebulous mass known as "they") released some of my other favorites on DVD yet? Where's the Marx Brothers'
A Night at the Opera? Where are the Fred and Ginger movies? And will they ever put out a complete set of
The Muppet Show instead of a lame series of "best of" discs?
These and other imponderables as
Blog's Your Uncle continues...
