Celebrate Your Prettiness Edition
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“Certain songs,” Craig Finn sang on The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me, “they get scratched into our souls.” That’s the basis of “Certain Songs:” a look at the songs that have done just that. These aren’t necessarily our favorite songs or the songs that we think are the best, but rather songs that — every single time we hear them — instantly transport us back to a place and time in which that song is forever intertwined. This is one of the reasons we so hate the RIAA’s attempted stranglehold on the dissemination of music: you never know where that next certain song is going to come from.
Sometimes the things that totally change your life happen so randomly as to be almost impossible.
Probably usually, actually, which is why you can never think too much about them. In any event, the first great thing to happen to me as an “adult,” was getting involved with KFSR, the Fresno State radio station.
And it happened because Tim made friends with a guy while we were both a Fresno City College.
At the time, Tim and I had only been out of high school for a few months, and we were going to City — or at least I was — because there was really no plan for adulthood besides drinking as much beer and buying as many records and seeing as many concerts as was humanly possible before actual responsibilities started creeping in.
Below Average Edition
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Moving to Rockferry Edition
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When I was a mere pre-blogger, one of my life’s fantasies was to become a journalist. I still remember my first published article, written when I was a high school freshman. I did a story on teenage mothers who were finishing school while caring for their babies. They were doing this in what was my former elementary school, previously closed due to budget cuts.
I still remember how weird that felt, talking to girls my age who were learning algebra and how to raise babies in the place I learned to read.
Time went on and I became co-editor of my school paper, together with one my best friends. Around then, I realized that, to be honest, I was more of an opinion columnist than journalist. Sometimes facts get in the way of the story. This might be why I also write fiction. But I’ve always loved newspapers, more for what they represent than what they are.
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Everybody Wants You To Be Just Like Them Edition
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Gotta Find a New Place Where the Kids are Hip Edition
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Girls Could Not Resist His Stare Edition
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Quick! What’s the question that is on everyone’s lips right now? You’d think it would be “Who is going to win the 2008 Presidential Election?” or “Are gas prices ever going to go down?” or “Should I buy one of them cheaper iPhones?” or even “What’s up with the Jonas Brothers?”
Nope, the question that is one everyone’s lips right now — again — is “Why is Kanye West such an asshole?”
I think that I have the answer, and it might be not what you think.
Fresno State’s 1st NCAA Men’s Championship in Any Sport Ever Edition
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One economist termed the loss streak "Zito-esque."
That's OK, we still like it.
From the Department of Painful Admissions: "We're great about putting out a paper; we're getting a lot better at putting up a Web site," he [Russ Stanton] said.
That's one scary-ass headline. And you know that if Viacom had their way, they would send a bill to every single YouTube user they discovered watched Viacom content.
You all need to be watching "The Middleman," on ABC Family Channel. Yes, I said "ABC Family Channel." It's a hilarious post-millennial love child of "Batman," "The Avengers," & "The Tick." In the meantime, I'm off to catch a plane at J.R. "Bob" Dobbs International Airport.
An argument that the long-discussed "death of the movie critic" is perhaps premature. A fiscally-based argument.
Waiting until July 12th.
Dolphin family, toying with humans and vacationing in Jersey.
Hoo boy!! This is a headline that just screams "slow week." Also, we have some people around here pretty familiar with both Bruce Springsteen and rock 'n' roll mythology, and not every single person referenced in one of his songs automatically became famous.
Ruh-roh! The Propagandist has them right where he wants them!!
Residents of the area have been instructed to follow Camper Van Beethoven's advice.
"The 3G iPhone's 8-GB model will sell for $199 with a two-year contract to new customers and current iPhone owners, but existing AT&T customers who are not eligible for upgrade discounts will be charged $399 for the same device." Wow. That means that if you had the temerity to be an AT&T customer, but not buy an iPhone, you get screwed.
So this is what it takes to get the Canadian's worked up.
As noted in a recently concluded millenia-long investigation.
Here's to being below average!
The King of Old Media may ultimately be the death of satellite radio.
If step one doesn't involve fixing the problems that keep Twitter from working properly most of the time, then anything else that follows isn't a viable business model.
Venezuela scares us.
As stupid as insisting that something as meaningless as a flag pin lapel is an indicator of how much someone loves their country (the map is not the territory), what Wesley Clark said is as equally stupid. Noone is truly "qualified" to be POTUS; it's really way more about the ideals and intelligence you bring to the Oval Office. Or at least it should be.
Have checked with Hollywood and it believes this headline might be overstating things a bit.
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