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Hana Food on Metropolitan Avenue near the Lorimer St. stop. Available only when ordering in person not over the phone.

• Call Me Beeyotch!
• Yankee!
• Kingdom of Heaven
• The Illegal
• Lady in the Water
• Happy Feet
• Dirty Feet
• Cheap Bastard
• Douchebag
• Kiss the Chef
• Rush Hour
• The Grinch
• Mets
• Mr. Hotshot
• Jessica’s Party
• Eagle
• Elephant
• Zebra
• Shark
• Lake House

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A list of every reason that David Banner got angry and turned into the Hulk on The Incredible Hulk. Thank you, A.V. Club.

Got my credit card cleared up!

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Screw it, I’m just gonna do this…

If anyone cares to, I’d love additions or protests.

Separate: yesterday, I was really burnin’ to buy The Smiths’ Singles. I know greatest hits collections are taboo for music snobs, but I love this particular one and wanted it. Dyna and I were hoofing around and struck out at three record stores, including the mega-Virgin in Union Square. Not even a megastore? I was disappointed. However, walking out of the ‘S’ aisle, my eye was caught by the Bruce Springsteen live set for only $20.

Twenty dollars! That’s a steal! In high school, I systematically decided that I liked Bruce Springsteen based on the recommendations of friends I [...]

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I’ve been tagged by Eliza to list five things you don’t know about me.

• I played the French Horn for 14 years.
• When I was in elementary school, I rallied my class and eventually other classes to try and write out a googol’s worth of zeroes [edited to add: this is known as a googolplex, thank you Dan Goldstein], because I wanted to get an idea of how big that number really was. For years, I had boxes of paper filled with handwritten zeroes in my family’s basement. We never even got close to being done.
• I once played paintball with Harrison Ford. My group was there for a bachelor party, and Ford and his family (son and brother, [...]

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1. Monogrammed slices of American cheese
2. Flesh-scented soap
3. Cockroach slippers
4. Hal Linden
5. Monogrammed Hal Linden
6. Winterized Hal Linden
7. Organic, free-range Hal Linden
8. Gift certificates redeemable at outlet stores that sell clones of Hal Linden
9. Indoor/outdoor Hal Linden
10. Hal Linden expansion set
11. Family-sized Hal Linden
12. Barney Miller
13. Candles

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…right down to the domain name.
http://www.5ives.com/

This is a funny one.

He also mentions a lot of songs. Someone get me a Ted Leo and the Whoevers album, please.

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I enjoy “Weird Al” Yankovic’s latest video/song “White N’ Nerdy” — a parody of Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’ Dirty.” I can’t think of a better way to pay homage than to get white n’ nerdy in regards to the song itself. Therefore, I present an overly careful and catalogued list of all references made in the song and video.

(v) means video only, when there’s a joke beyond just literally illustrating what’s said in the song. And I’m arbitrarily deciding what’s “white” and what’s “nerdy.” I’m already regretting this decision.

• Mowin’ lawns instead of “rollin”
• (v) Overly friendly and naive wave
• (v) Short-sleeve buttoned up polo shirt, khaki pants, horn-rimmed glasses
• (v) Subdivision setting
• (v) Red torches are in a Pac-Man shape
• (v) Gangly walk
• (v) Uncool [...]

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I said Scorsese and Primal Bias laughed at me.

Okay, fine. So you tell me. Who? I feel like Billy Wilder is eligible and since it’s my blog, he therefore is.

And the best JOKING answer to give to this question? John Hughes. That’s the best joking answer.

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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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I think you can tell a lot about a writer’s style by what names he picks for his/her characters, things and places.

Philip K. Dick:

• Ragle Gumm
• The Reegs and The Lilistars
• Joe Chip
• Wilbur Mercer
• Substance D
• Horselover Fat

Jonathan Lethem

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