In the instance, waiting for Amazon’s courier service to drop off the 69 Love Songs vinyl box set, which has finally been released after seemingly endless delays. Safe bet tomorrow’s earworm will feature the stylings of Mr. Stephin Merritt.

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Moondog – Paris Found at skreemr.com

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The one I’ve actually had stuck in my head is a substantially slower—and I think better—version, but I take what YouTube gives me. Just for a bonus, here’s Aretha’s version: And Janis’:

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No, I have no idea why this one was lodged in my head all weekend.

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Seems like most days there’s a song that keeps bouncing around my head; I figure I may as well start inflicting these on y’all.  Today, it’s Janelle Monae’s “Tightrope”:

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A little happy-hour jawboning about politics and comic books sounds like a pretty great way to spend a Tuesday after work.  This admittedly makes me a huge dork, but fortunately, D.C. is full of huge dorks. So I hope those of you in the area will join me tomorrow at the Laughing Man Tavern from […]

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Mike Masnick at Techdirt is fuming over Sony’s decision to remove the ability to install third-party operating systems on the Playstation 3 with their next big firmware upgrade. I don’t think I was even aware of the feature, so it’s of little practical import to me, but apparently there are quite a few coders and […]

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A pretty brilliant response to the merry bilious little band from Westboro Baptist:

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Amid the buzz over David Frum’s recent ouster from the American Enterprise Institute, some folks have linked back to this old post on the now-hoary trope that heterodox conservatives are simply angling for invitations to the fabled Georgetown Cocktail Parties. There’s a certain irony here in that Frum himself is no stranger to attacking the […]

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A surprising number of the responses to my recent video on social remix complain that the various videos of kids acting out their own versions of the Lisztomania “Brat Pack” mashup video simply don’t count as a form of creativity.  To be sure, they are not  timeless works of starting originality, but this sort of […]

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