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My brother found this book in an art museum in Hartford, Connecticut:
http://www.amazon.com/Stick-Great-Moments-History-More/dp/0307338592

Which breaks my heart, since it is perilously close to a series of stick figure drawings I’ve had on my wall for a few years:

It’s too simple an idea for it to be truly plagarized. I wish it was though! Because I feel saddened as if a great advertising jingle were stolen from my secret files! However, if the guy who wrote this book starts a low-rent kids show called “The Fun Team,” then I’m calling a lawyer.

Also, I don’t totally agree with his depiction of American Gothic, displayed on the front page of his book.

He uses too many lines. With stick [...]

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Matt DeCoster and I edited footage for a sure-to-be-frantic 102 show last night. Matt was one of the stars and I “directed.” In watching the footage, I was surprised to find myself quite comfortable with my balding head. However, I was dismayed by how both pasty and disgustingly hairy the back of my neck was. It looked like a birch tree covered in diseased fungus.

The show looks fun, though.

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What are the greatest American rock bands ever?

I ask because of this: at my birthday party last night, someone (Erik Tanouye?) pointed out that when British music mags list the greatest British albums of all times, that Oasis’ What’s the Story Morning Glory is usually way up there, and often the number one. Several of us — myself, at least — was appalled at this notion. Not that WTSMG is a bad album — it’s a great one, but GREATEST BRITISH ALBUM ever? I spouted out the obvious: The BEATLES are from Britain — their best stuff should win over everyone, right? Then someone else pointed out that even if someone thought the Beatles were overrated (ridiculous, really, but [...]

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First and less important point: I received in the mail yesterday a CD with the original version of “I Got My Mind Set On You” — which is “I Got My Mind Set On You (Parts 1 and 2) by James Ray. It’s a slower, funkier version that ends with a gospel choir chanting “It’s gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money.” It’s pretty cool. Come to my house and I’ll play it for you.

Also, I closed spitemag.com the website today. I was gonna do it January 1st, but I put it off because I had a lot of email stored up there. Then today the domain was suspended because I had to pay $200 for another year [...]

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