Well we are heading into July 4th weekend, and I am heading to Boston for the weekend. I am looking forward to getting out of the city, but not so much to getting stuck in traffic for several hours. Several blogs reported a pretty funny story. Apparently some right wing religious website (American Family Association's OneNewsNow) posts AP stories to it site, but for some reason it runs a script that automatically replaces the word "gay" with "homosexual". I guess for some reason the religious fanatics don't like the word gay. Anyhow in case you missed it, Tyson Gay a US sprinter broke the 100 meter record. Well this is how the story appeared in that website:
"Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials."
Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday.
His wind-aided 9.85 seconds was a fairly cut-and-dry performance compared to what happened a day earlier. On Saturday, Homosexual misjudged the finish in his opening heat and had to scramble to finish fourth, then in his quarterfinal a couple of hours later, ran 9.77 to break the American record that had stood since 1999. [...]
Homosexual didn't get off to a particularly strong start in the first semifinal, but by the halfway mark he had established a comfortable lead.... Asked how he felt, Homosexual said: "A little fatigued."
Also of note in the news, the NY Times and other news sources reported that Obama, in an effort to change his image had refused to give a "terrorist fist jab" to a school child who wanted one. Well it turns out you can still get a terrorist fist jab. The boy was asking Obama to sign his hand in pen, and Obama thought the boy's mom would not like it, so he signed a piece of paper instead.
Pleasant Dreams is not the Ramones finest album, but any Ramones album is probably better than most of what I have been listening to. One thing that struck me while listening to this album was how much it sense it made for Phil Spector to produce a Ramones album. Mike Ladd created one of my favorite albums, "The Majesticons-Beauty Party". This album is a lot more mellow than that, but still pretty good. I also downloaded "The Infesticons" which I will be reviewing shortly. Overall I am on a pretty nice run of enjoyable albums. I hope it keeps up! 3 stars for both albums.
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Didn't he also produce End of the Century? I'm too lazy to google and/or wikipedia it. And I'm too lazy to check back here for an answer, so just tell me next time you see me. I can't think which Ramones song I'm thinking of (or not thinking of) that sounds all Spectory. I heart Phil Spector. Free Phil Spector! Did you know that he was banned from commercial aviation because he got a premonition of disaster on a commercial flight and got them to turn the plane around on the runway and bring him back to the terminal? It really happened! Or so said some book.
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