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April 2009

The Breeders go from Fate to Fatal

Really loving this song from the new Breeders EP. (The rest of the disc is a-ight, though I can't say I'm loving the Bob Marley cover.) Mark Lanegan sings the second-best track, called "The Last Time."

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Woman says her Dad was the Zodiac Killer...and that she tagged along with him on murders!

Perez alleges that she was a naive 7-year-old daughter tagging along with her father during the killings.

"He told me he was sick and all I wanted to do was help my dad," Perez said. "He kept telling me he was sick and he killed many, many people.

"I had no idea."

The self-described Zodiac killer is blamed for at least five slayings in 1968 and 1969. He was never caught.

I only know about the case what you can glean from David Fincher's brilliant movie "Zodiac," but it seems odd that police wouldn't have been able to find ANY evidence that a 7-year-old child was at the scene of these crimes.

It certainly is never mentioned in the movie, which I had thought was based on the genuine police accounts of the crime. I mean, a 7 year old isn't going to touch anything? Leave a footprint? NOTHING?

http://www.mahalo.com/Zodiac_Killer

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Don't Tweet Too Hard

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Our very own @jasoncalacanis is at the top of today's "Tweeting Too Hard" leaderboard.  And it's only 10:20 am!  We're all gonna need to work together to help him maintain the top spot.

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Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview

Prerequisites

Students must have completed at least two of the following.

ENG: 232WR—Advanced Tweeting: The Elements of Droll
LIT: 223—Early-21st-Century Literature: 140 Characters or Less
ENG: 102—Staring Blankly at Handheld Devices While Others Are Talking
ENG: 301—Advanced Blog and Book Skimming
ENG: 231WR—Facebook Wall Alliteration and Assonance
LIT: 202—The Literary Merits of Lolcats
LIT: 209—Internet-Age Surrealistic Narcissism and Self-Absorption

Hilarious bit from McSweeney's last week. Somehow this got overlooked.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/20lanham.html

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Ninja Blade Walkthrough

Mahalo just wrapped our "Ninja Blade" walkthrough. The game's visuals look kind of interesting, but I honestly haven't heard anything about it. The whole set-up just sounds like more survival horror. ("Mutant parasites invade Tokyo!") Thoughts?

http://www.mahalo.com/Ninja_Blade_Walkthrough

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Keith Olbermann is 100% correct...so why am I still so irritated by him?

I'd say I agree with about 75% of the things Keith Olbermann says. And yet, I find him sanctimonious and annoying pretty much 98% of the time. His unbearable smugness is actually HURTING his cause.

Bill Maher is kind of the same way. I WANT to get behind these guys, because they are on the right side and have large platforms, but I just can't do it because I kind of want to just smack them in the face. It's on my nerves lately.

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Stone and Douglas to re-team for "Wall Street 2: Back to the Boardroom!"

I guess Gordon Gecko will be going before Congress asking for bailout funds? One thing's for certain, Michael Douglas is "too old to fail."

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