March 2012
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Fact: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are as underrated as The Doors are overrated.
February 2012
30 posts
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Wilco & Billy Bragg: Mermaid Avenue 3? →
What, what, what????!?!
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February 27, 2012: The Day the Wyoming legislature... →
On Friday, the Wyoming House of Representatives advanced a bill to set up a task force to prepare for the total economic and political collapse of the United States. Per the bill, the panel would investigate things like food storage options and metals-based currencies, to be implemented in the event of a major catastrophe.
Then it goes three steps further. An amendment by GOP state Rep....
A Decades-Old Quote From Last Night's Winner for...
mentalflossr:
“When you see who wins those things—or who doesn’t win them—you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.”
—Woody Allen
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Which is a bigger pile of garbage: The NBA All-Star Game or The Oscars?
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Martin Scorsese’s Film School: The 85 Films You... →
I knew a douchebag that saw each of the AFI top 100 films and thought that meant something to have seen all of them. These are the films he should have been watching.
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Republic of Wadiya →
“In 1959 he flew to New York and drove across America to San Francisco. When he...”
– This is from the Wikipedia entry on John Fairfax, whose obituary is in the New York Times. It’s a minor detail the Times deemed unworthy of mention because the rest of his life makes it look tame.
This guy didn’t drink Dos Equis. He pissed Dos Equis.
Also, he rowed the Atlantic at 32. I only have...
North Adams' Finest! Go Paul! →
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Bill Simmons talks to Celtics legend and current... →
I don’t know what my exact Bucket List is for BS Report guests, just that Larry Bird, David Letterman, Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Murphy are leading the way. While we were in Indianapolis last week, we were offered the chance to sit down with Larry Legend for 30 minutes … which, of course, I stretched to 40 without blinking. Afterward, a few of my friends asked me if this was the...
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Chimes Of Freedom: The dos and don’ts of covering... →
Bob Dylan is a thief. This is not an indictment. Read even a little about Dylan’s early years in the New York folk scene—or watch Martin Scorsese’s documentary No Direction Home—and you’ll find a good number of grumbling contemporaries with stories to tell about how the man formerly known as Robert Zimmerman stole from them. He swiped vintage record collections, and arrangements of old folk ...
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“Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been...”
– Julian Assange
“I know Lyndon LaRouche, and Ron Paul is no Lyndon LaRouche.”
– Vermin Supreme • Saying exactly what everyone was thinking about Ron Paul. (Must watch this.)
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andrewbaggott:
“The Sun Is Shining Down” - J.J....
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Fuck Donald Trump.
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