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64 Payola Payoffs: The New York Reunion Mix
Cd Mix of the Month

CD Mix of the Month Reunion

My contribution to CD Mix of the Month Club New York Reunion was the sprawling, three-disc extravaganza 64 Payola Payoffs: The New York Reunion Mix. Unfortunately, because the CDs took so long to burn, there weren't enough copies for everyone!

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Translation

Hey, could any of you German speakers out there give me a hand rendering this in German? Dear Dad: I looked all over for this. I hope you enjoy it. Babelfish gives me the following, but I doubt it's a perfect translation: Lieber Vati: Ich schaute ganz rüber

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That's My Baby in the White Skirt...

Photos from the Mermaid Parade.

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Today's Alternate Universe Moment

I had a glimpse into an alternate universe today while waiting to cross Park Avenue. I looked over and saw a man who was the spitting image of Dick Cheney—sixtyish, balding, white-haired, very stout. Except... This guy was wearing tan loafers, blue jeans, and a short-sleeved linen

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Astoria

Why Queens Rocks the Free World

At 10:15 pm tonight, over the protestations of my dog, I left the apartment and took a twenty-minute walk over to the Arabic stretch of Steinway Street where, thanks to Bloomberg's smoking ban, the men congregate with their hookahs on the sidewalk before the storefronts. I

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Robots out of Control

I hope this will be my last post in this tangled I, Robot thread, a skein that's getting more meta by the minute. SF writer John Scalzi posts a blog entry in response to my boycott here: http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/archives/001028.html So you don&

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Robots and Cinema

At npr.org, you can listen to a story that ran yesterday on Weekend Edition Sunday about the controversy in SF circles over the film version of I, Robot: http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3444025 It's actually an interesting story that gets most of the

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Take the "I, Robot" Challenge

Expanding on my earlier post, and on comments I made in ❦pixelfish's journal, here's a meme for you: Rather than seeing I, Robot: The Summer Lackluster Blockbuster, take the cost of the two movie tickets you might otherwise have purchased and get a copy of I,

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Hawking Changes His Mind

From AP, via Salon: Stephen Hawking changes mind on black holes He now says they do eventually release information about what fell in. Me, I don't have an opinion on the matter.

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I, Video Game Target

Some fun excerpts from former SF fanboy Roger Ebert's Sun-Times review of I, Robot: Asimov's robot stories were often based on robots that got themselves hopelessly entangled in logical contradictions involving the laws. According to the invaluable Wikipedia encyclopedia on the Web, Harlan Ellison and

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What He Said

❦steelbrassnwood, as hoped, posts a review-and-metareview of last night's Prince show.

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Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic; Or, "This Is So We Know U Belong N the Front Row"

So. Prince. Again. █████ and I saw the Purple 1 N a wee-hours show at Club Black back N the spring, the night of his induction N2 the Rock and Roll Hall 'O' Fame. We missed the 1st half-hour or so due 2 the crowds crowding N,

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