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Chris Matthews totally shreds belligerent simpleton and shrieking right-wingnut Kevin James on Hardball the other night.

Brilliant.

The Bush administration has no problem with torture, so what they should do is strap loyal toady Kevin James into a chopper, hook him up to an amp, and fly him over Afghanistan as an aural warfare device to torment the populace into finally giving up bin Laden. I bet it’d take less than a day before his voice began to drill smoking holes into their brains, even if they didnt listen to a word he said.

I can’t believe this guy actually does a radio show. I thought there were laws against noise pollution in this country.

“What did Neville Chamberlain Do?”

Turn down your volume. Seriously.

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In one exchange, which apparently took place after MTV News’ allotted hour was up (media outlets were only allowed to remain at the Q&A for a specified hour), Rowling told the audience that Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore was gay and had fallen in love with fellow wizard and erstwhile friend, Gellert Grindelwald, according to the Associated Press and Potter fan site the Leaky Caudron. The crowd cheered, leading Rowling to say:

“If I had known this would have made you this happy, I would have told you years ago.”

I cheered when I read it, too. I knew it, I knew it! How TOTALLY awesome is this!? And he was outed at Carnegie Hall, too. Fantastic.

Man, I love Jo Rowling. And now I’m even more pissed off at her for killing him off.

MTV Article from whence the above quote came.

Link to Google news cache for topic.

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Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.

Please pardon my levity, I don’t see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.

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Fnord, old man. Give ‘em hell on the other side. And thanks for a wild ride. We shall not see your like again!

I’m so happy that in his last months he was able to rest easy and know exactly how important and valuable he was to so many people. I hope that it helped ease whatever pain he was in.

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Scooby’s dad, and the creator of The Great Gazoo, Astro Jetson, and Penelope Pitstop, among others, has shaken off this mortal coil and gone to that great animation studio in the sky.

Theyre all leaving us, these giants of joyful youth, and I see none rushing in to fill the empty spaces they leave behind. We have some folks who have promise, but it looks like the times ahead will be heavy.

On the other hand, we have incredible things happening with digital media. Perhaps the focus has simply shifted. Still and all, there is nothing quite like old school animation, and it is unutterably sad to me that this art form is slowly dying. Maybe I’m just a dinosaur, but I’ll take that celluloid stuff over CGI any day of the week, man. As beautiful as CGI can be, it lacks the organic flow and beauty, the tactile feel that celluloid animation leaves on your eyes and your soul. Or maybe just my soul.

Either way, Mr. Takamoto, thank you for making my life a brighter place to be. Thanks for making a stoner and his talking dog such a beautiful illustration of what friendship means the world over. Every human being on the planet knows who Shaggy and Scooby are, and they are so beloved that not even Hollywood could tarnish their memory.

And thanks for being the genesis of the idea behind Scooby Snacks. My dog really loved them.

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Incidentally, if you can’t see a title for this post, or if there’s just a bunch of boxes there, it’s because it’s written in the Japanese alphabet. The title for this post is what Google Translate came up with for the phrase “rest in peace.” (And many variations thereof, which when translated changed “rest” to some form of “remainder” when put together with “in peace.”) It actually reads “remainder of peace,” which is kind of irritating, but it was all I could find!

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Heh.

This is the best CNN headline I’ve seen in a while:

I just love it when someone takes a really good swipe at New Jersey. Smelly, rude, ignorant bastards. Theyre like the deep south of the northeast.

New Jersey really does smell bad, you know. It wouldnt surprise me in the slightest if this latest stinkbomb does originate from a refinery or something over there. The whole state needs to be air-sprayed with extra-strength Febreze.

Great headline, though. This should really piss off pretty much everyone in the state.

Well, the four percent or so that can read, anyway.

New Jersey sniffed out as source of stench - CNN.com

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Terry Jones puts on his green shade and gets his adding machine on.

They have made a killing | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited

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So okay a little while ago I was sitting here reading the news and listening to the new Paul Stanley record, “Live To Win,” on Rhapsody, which I subscribe to. Yeah, even though I hate the Real company, and the Rhapsody player is a bloated piece of crap (well they just upgraded it; it’s a lot better now but remains a bloated piece of crap), it’s still the best online music service I have found so far - it has the most songs and the cheapest subscription at $15 a month that lets me download all the songs I want to my hard drive and MP3 player. It could be $10 a month but I upgraded two months ago to the “To Go” subscription and I forget why, exactly, since there are…ahem…ways around the DRM that they employ on every song.

And it isnt iTunes. Man, fuck iTunes.

Anyway, I was listening to his latest release, which is quite charming and even has a couple of really good songs on it - “Lift” is actually terrific - the record is absolutely Paul Stanley material, and that’s good enough for this life-long, die-hard KISS fan - and preparing to liberate the poor thing from its Rhapsodic DRM hell so it could live a free and unrestricted life on my hard drive, when I noticed something in the little factoid scroll that Rhapsody has on the screen when youre playing any artist’s music.

It said something about a bootleg called “People, Let Me Get This Off My Chest,” which is a CD full of Paul Stanley banter that some wag compiled and put on a disc. (That’s not my thumb.)

I had never heard of this before, and frankly, I was stunned that someone at Rhapsody had, and furthermore that they had the foresight to include this delectable tidbit on the factoid scroll.

I just about broke my fingers, so fast did I get my Google on, and promptly discovered a mini-phenomenon in the KISS world that I had somehow completely missed. Apparently, a lot of people knew about this - how in the hell I never caught it is something I will never know. Ten anxious minutes later…it required digging to find…I had this piece of rock and roll history on my desktop.

Yes, 70 glorious minutes of hilarious, often surreal banter from one of the rock world’s premiere frontmen, all in one place, and now it’s mine, all MINE. Eighty-six megabytes of deliciousness. Paul’s banter has always been one of the highlights of any KISS show, and I’ve heard so much of it over the years of KISS concert going. For someone who never drank or took any drugs, he sure made a good imitation of a guy tripping out of his face.

Paul Stanley is a great vocalist and a sweet man and one of the nicest guys you could ever want to meet. His banter is legendary in the rock world, and KISS - love them or hate them - are one of the most influential bands in music history.

Yeah, I’ll be a fan until the day I die, no matter how ridiculous they get. And get this: both Gene (no surprise at all) and Paul (big huge surprise) are Republicans. Sometimes, loyalty means sticking with your boys even if they are a little misguided and maybe, just maybe, a little bit cheeseball.

They helped me out over some very, very rough times in my life. I’m grateful, and I owe these guys a lot.

Incidentally, in case you havent heard, the title track off “Live To Win” had its world premiere in the South Park World of Warcraft episode a few weeks back. I rarely watch television, although I’m a big fan of South Park, and usually only see the episodes online, but Scottso pointed this out to me, so thanks to him for that!

He’s playing the House Of Blues on 14 November. Paul Stanley, I mean. Not Scottso. I’m going to see if I cant mosey on over that way and catch the show. Life is hard in LA without a car, but I’ll see what I can do. I wish this godforsaken town knew what public transportation is!

The House of Blues kind of pisses me off because it’s mind-bogglingly, unnecessarily expensive, but man, this is Paul Stanley. I can make an exception!

In the meantime, though, I heartily urge you to download that file. If the download stops working for any reason, just let me know - make a comment or email me or something - and I’ll be glad to make it available again.

KISS LOVES YOU!

GOOD NIGHT!

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