Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim

: "1. Michael and Heather At The Baggage Claim - Fountains of Wayne "

Apple launches iMeat?

News of the Weird:

A 14-year-old girl who received a new Apple iPod opened the sealed box and found raw mystery meat inside, according to a Local 6 News report. Rachel Cambra purchased a new high-tech iPod for her daughter as a gift this week. When she opened the sealed box, the device was missing and in its place was a piece of raw meat, the report said.

Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda - New York Times

Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda - New York Times:

A Pentagon contractor that paid Iraqi newspapers to print positive articles written by American soldiers has also been compensating Sunni religious scholars in Iraq in return for assistance with its propaganda work, according to current and former employees.

And this is a bad thing because . . . .? Isn't the Times always claiming that we're not winning Muslim "hearts and minds"? Shouldn't we be trying to win some?

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EMerson5-8110 Agnes Flood That's Why They Pay Me the Big Bucks

You've a good memory for shows. I wonder if I still went to rock shows whether I would. It seemed like I used to, but everything's different now. After the psychosurgery, I was different, no doubt. At first, I began to be obsessed, when traveling on buses and subways, with observing whatever any female near me was reading. I found myself surreptitiously reading popular novels, love poetry, and diatribes over the perfumed shoulders of countless commuter girls. I couldn't sleep at night. [15:05] Asheresque: what kind of surgery? was this a full frontal, or what? [15:05] trip80: amygdala [15:08] trip80: parts of the limbic [15:09] trip80: hippocampus The public library became a kind of second home to me. [15:10]Asheresque: I am intrigued Well, after you found my notebook, I felt I had to explain to you all the diagrams, the chemical formulae, all that weird stuff. It's not everyone who's got a howto on bomb-making next to sketches of suburban moms returning Matilda to the children's desk. But I'm no terroristThis is not my story. [15:15] trip80: I'm just an observer [15:15] trip80: an amplifier [15:15] trip80: a machine [15:16] trip80: I appreciate you calling me [15:16] trip80: The notebook isn't much, it's a trifle, really [15:16] trip80: I've got a whole room full of them [15:17] trip80: Just had to know what women were thinking -- what was that internal voice saying [15:18] trip80: when she sits in the seat next to me, thumbing Jurassic Park, giving me a brief, awkward grin, and I grunt back [15:18] trip80: I'm not a big reader myself [15:18] trip80: or at least I wasn't [15:18] trip80: Always found it hard to read [15:19] trip80: like memorizing [15:19] trip80: Had to know exactly what something meant --

Stella with baby Augustine, August 26, 2005.