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I don't get this whole Susan Boyle thing. If you've been hiding in an oil barrel this week, the latest internet sensation is a 47-year-old Scotswoman who appeared on "Britain's Got Talent" over the weekend. Go watch the video; I'll wait. Okay, welcome back. Are you as confused as I am? I mean, she certainly has a nice voice. Is it opera- or Broadway-ready? Of course not. She needs a lot of

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Harry Kalas has died at 73.http://is.gd/scmU RIP, Harry. Enjoy. (h/t Dan Levy)

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I'm writing a post mostly so that people stop complaining about the most recent one; a new post will cause that one to scroll down the page. Last weekend we wrapped up the Brandywine High School show, which was "My Fair Lady;" I would have posted about it but was far too busy working on it. I had to rearrange a lot of music, plus transpose an entire bassoon part into bass-clarinet, along with

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Oh yeah. Dilbert knows how I feel.

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Regardless of your personal feelings of Rachel Maddow (I find her to be extremely AWESOME and also sneaky hot), you need to stop everything else you are doing and watch the reconstruction of the short flight of US Airways 1549, with the Air Traffic Control radio sync'd to it. Forget special pants; I'm surprised that Cap'n Sully's enormous brass testicles don't upset the weight balance of the

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(Lamest post title, EVER.) So, as you may have deduced from previous posts in which I said I got an iPhone, I got an iPhone. HW got one as well, as getting the AT&T family plan saves money! Even so, our monthly phone bill is going up by about 50%, which is a relatively small price to pay for having completely changed our lives for the better. Am I comparing the iPhone to organized religion? Of

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Horrible nightmares last night, for a variety of parties. Charles woke up crying around 9:30pm because of, we suspect, a bad dream, although he couldn't put into words what the problem was. After a few minutes of cuddling with Mommy he asked to get back into bed, and did so without difficulty. Weird. For my part, I dreamt that Charles had become unruly and ill-behaved, and it was decided, by

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AISOT, this is where I sang not one, but TWO national anthems on Monday afternoon. You can see where I would have been standing, near the red circle in the upper right, if I hadn't been in the press box taking the picture. (I can't be in two places at once, people. It is the great shame of my life.) The singing went well, although My Canadian-by-birth-Korean-by-choice friend Stefan pointed out

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This is a new ad campaign I'm putting together in A City Near You: Yea? Nay?

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I've never insisted that I was particularly bright. Which is why it shouldn't come as a surprise to you that, up until this week, I had no serious backup setup for my computers at home. What changed this week, you ask? Computer crash. My wife's achy old Dell B130 would only boot to the Blue Screen of Sadness, so I got it into diagnostic mode and did some tests; the hard drive failed like a fat

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Just a few collected ideas that jumbled around in my head this week: So far, President Obama has appointed political rivals to his cabinet; apologized when he screwed something up; closed a torture center; and worked major bipartisan magic with regards to the "economic stimulus package." Is it just me, or has he accomplished more positive things in 16 days on the job than the last schmuck did

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Apropos of nothing, here is a list of song titles you will never hear: "I Love You So Much (I Shat Myself)" "Bacon Me All Over" "Once, Twice, Three Times a Single Bit Memory Error" "I Heart Urinal Cake" "The Eva Braun Blues" "I Want To Taste Your Kidneys" "You Broke My Heart (And Also My Penis)" "Roll That Fattie In Flour" "I Stapled Our Hands Together" "That Pain In Your Heart Is Probably An

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Link day! It's been a while, I've got the hot stuff to share. Like photography? Check out this portfolio commenting on how animals interact with the humans that roll all up in their shizzito. Note: the shots were staged with taxidermicalated critters, so don't worry when you see, say, a little girl in a swimsuit confronting a massive bear. This is the greatest musical recording that has ever

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Since I reach a significant Age next week, I had to go to the DMV and renew my license. My car is also going to require renewal in two months, so I figured, hell, they'll let me do it now, why not kill two birds with one stone! Particularly when those birds are massive, slavering creatures with Adamantium talons who hate me and everything that we as a nation hold dear. So I snuck out of work

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Can somebody explain to me this new thing where all the ladies are getting their noses pierced? It started at as something you'd see amongst the hard core body decorators, or among certain ethnic groups as a cultural or religious thing, but now I'm seeing just every day skanks showing up with rhinestones jabbed into their schnozzes. I don't get it. Is it just me? Bueller? I guess that's

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Hi! I'm Matt Hearn, and I'm here to tell you that you, too, can learn the secrets of gaining weight. Just listen to these testimonials! "Using Matt Hearn's plan, I gained 8 pounds in just under a month! Then I met a dude that digs fat chicks! ALL RIGHT!" - Tara Lipzinsky "I had always been afraid of bacon, but Matt Hearn and his Plan of Deliciousness showed me the light!" - Tom Skates "My

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I'm a little apprehensive about sharing this, because, to be frank, I basically poured my heart and soul into it for the better part of two weeks, and I'm still not sure if it's good. When I listen to it, I'm greatly disappointed, but I usually am when I listen to my own stuff. I'll stop fishing for compliments. Check check it: Matt Hearn - Doubting Thomas.mp3 Original song by Nickel Creek;

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This is something that had to be shared with everyone on the internet, as fast as humanly possible, with no time for proper scanning and editing, because it is brilliant to the point of personal pain. I give you the new webcomic, written by me and ingeniously illustrated by my sister Liz: Bach v. Handel. That is the full image in its original format; to make it fit within the confines of my

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Can someone explain to me why you're not allowed to smoke anywhere but a specially constructed, hermetically sealed, underground iron box, but it's perfectly legal for people to drench themselves in cheap perfume and go out in public? I went to church yesterday; I didn't have to sing, so for the first time in a while, I sat in the congregation. And it was like a hyacinth was having sex with my

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Just a quick note: if you like photography at all, check out 2008 in Photographs at boston.com. Some of them are mildly graphic, but they make you click before they'll load the really nasty ones (a dude with a seriously gushing head wound, and a dead child). Some of them are simply awe-inspiring, but all of them are "make-you-thinkers." Get on it. Oh, and don't forget parts two and three, the

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There's a thing that's been floating around Facebook like some kind of social disease wherein everyone goes down a list of movies and checks off the ones they've seen. I tend to ignore most Facebook crap (I'm currently 0 for 4,374 on "signing up for stupid applications that people have invited me to"), but this one was so wildly popular that I felt I needed to get in the top floor! (Note: I am

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If you're curious about what kind of economic downturn we could be facing, check this out. It's pretty grim. I'm pretty optimistic, personally, but that will probably change if I, say, get fired and take up alcoholism. A couple Youtube clips worth checking out: Widor Toccata. Probably my favorite piece for organ, but holy crap look at the console for that instrument. 154 ranks! 5 divisions

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Most of my readers (meaning both of them) are probably thoroughly aware of Newsweek's article, by Lisa Miller, on the religious arguments for and against gay marriage, but on the off chance you missed it, click here. It does a particularly good job of summing up and discarding the conservative religious arguments against same-sex matrimony, so it's useful information if you find yourself in an

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