General updates
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Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg’s “”Must I Paint You A Picture“” (from Walking & Talking) is one of the best movie-ending-soundtrack-songs ever.
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Die Another Day DVD
Sitting down to watch Die Another Day on special edition DVD, even though it doesn’t officially come out here in the US until tomorrow. Thank you again, half.com.
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The Teammates
Historian David Halberstam was on The Daily Show Thursday talking about his new book, The Teammates. The book is about Red Sox legends Dom Dimaggio (yes he is) and Johnnie Pesky driving from Boston down to Florida for one last visit with Ted Williams, who has since passed. Williams was the greatest hitter that ever…
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The new Bond makes up for the breaking desk…
On this desk that I’m sitting at, the left side of the slideout keyboard tray has been steadily detaching from the side of the desk for the past few days…every time I hear an ominous crack, the left side of the keyboard tilts down slighty to the left, leaving us typing on an ever-growing tilt.…