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DAMN DIRTY STEPDANCING APES

Steeleye Span, “Blackleg Miner” (YouTube)
France
Gaudete

HI, MOM

Laurie Anderson, “O Superman” (YouTube)
By all conventional criteria, ‘O Superman’ was totally uncommercial and radio-unfriendly — but it was weirdly gripping and moving.

BATHE IN THE IDIOCY

I’d like to point out to Duane Kimme, in his Dec. 20 letter to the editor, that every statement he made was false. Natural selection cannot select for what does not already exist in the genome, making it an elimination of the weakest and not a creator of additional information.
No new biological system can have […]

YEAH, BABY

Della Reese, “Lonelyville” (YouTube)

PRETTY MUSIC

Listen:
Altan, “John Doherty’s reels” (YouTube)
Altan, “The Sunset” (YouTube)

WEARING MY TRON COSTUME RIGHT NOW

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XMAS NOIR

The Bloody Olive (YouTube, via MeFi)

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Whatshisname identified on sixth DUI arrest

MIND THE TANKS

Baghdad: Much more than a holiday

THE END

George W. Bush, “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” (YouTube, via 1gm)