Sure, I’m voting for Barack Obama. But gosh, he does love that word change – so much, in fact, that I had to make my own special banner for the blog. I call it “The Zombama.”
Scroll down to see it – or hit the End key (which is not to be confused with the Apocalypse [...]

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Well, Google and the music industry appear to be set on turning YouTube honest, so my favorite habit of scouring the site for music videos may soon be coming to an end.
While I can, though, here are 50 of the best music vids on YouTube. A few of the usual suspects, as well as a [...]

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Righteous indignation: Steely Dan are about 10,000 times cooler than Owen Wilson.
Title envy: Wikipedia has some weird pages, but how ’bout this one listing songs with titles of twenty or more words?
Or: … maybe this one listing sexually active popes?
Turning on the charm: Some friends and I were talking about gaps in teeth today. One [...]

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There are plenty of cute sites on the web: Things That Make You Go Aahh, The Daily Kitten, Adorablog and Cute Overload, to name a few. But I like the sites that place one cute thing next to another in a battle for cuteness supremacy: specifically, Kittenwar! and BabyVsBaby.

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I’ve been watching music videos lately on YouTube. I’m trying to figure out good ways to incorporate them into writing (and then to include them in FYC teaching). For now, though, it’s fun just to browse.
A couple of good places to start are Pitchfork’s 100 Awesome Music Videos (some of my favorites include [...]

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