Mr. LaFontaine wrote most of his voice-overs and, sometimes with collaborators, came up with familiar phrases like “a one-man army,” “one man, one destiny,” “from the bedroom to the boardroom,” and “nowhere to run, nowhere to hide and no way out.”


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(via nyt)

Well, who can say honestly he doesn’t harbor a curiosity about the ethos and dynamics of the hippie? Ps– is that fleet foxes record good?


Carrie Brownstein sez (courtesy of NPR):

If “Baroque Shins” isn’t conjuring anything for you, how about: Fleet Foxes are estrogen-powered Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Itchy-Beard Left Banke, or Subaru-Outback-hand-me-down-from-Mom-and-Dad Bert Jansch. (Hmmm, maybe these brief descriptions would be more useful if I weren’t so fond of Fleet Foxes.)


Buy a Love Battery or Cat Butt record from Sub Pop instead.


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(via The aforementioned WeirdUniverse)

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Often sponsored by publishing houses or simply used as a clever advertising medium, the dust covers are the most ingenious and useful marketing method we’ve seen in a while.

(via Monocle)

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This was a new one for me. It was taking awhile to pick up a wireless networks at MM’s apartment and then when I checked the available networks I was amazed and frustrated to find that spammers and plundered a new domain– wifi hotspots.

/me cries


in a similar vein, I received my first my first text message spam the other day from 0000000000:

This is the one you want to C, Symbol : F D K E, Fred Entertinment This is an easy tripler ujpkgupontuor


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(via the late lamented loompanics catalog)