Happy New Year!
What artist and song are these lyrics from?
# “The Real Slim Shady,” Eminem -And just might be the next best thing, but not quite me.-
# “Built for Comfort”, Howlin’ Wolf -Some folks built like this, some folks built like that, but the way I’m built don’t you call me fat.-
# “Mr. Big Stuff”, [...]

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Responding to protests from the Catholic League, Comedy Central has yanked reruns of the _South Park_ “Bloody Mary” episode that ran earlier this month. It’s a pretty gross episode, but then … it’s _South Park_. BoingBoing “has a little more detail”:http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/29/bloody_mary_resurrec.html (warning: offensive South Park stills). I wrote in protest. Here’s an excerpt of what [...]

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I have twenty-six political blogs in my RSS reader. I read them all frequently. They make me frown and frequently turn me grumpy when, otherwise, I have no excuse.
Today, I also added the “Cute Overload”: weblog, which posts entries “like this”:http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2005/12/rule_of_cutenes_3.html and “this”:http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2005/12/ebony_and_ivore.html and “this”:http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2005/12/delicious.html. I think I have found an antidote.
Thanks, Meg.

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I went home to Bristol for Christmas this weekend, where I experienced, as usual, a four-day-long wide-ranging discussion on politics, religion, and philosophy. I didn’t notice it as much growing up, but now that I’m not in the middle of it I suspected I did not have a normal family as much as a _really [...]

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One of the songs that came up as I was putting today’s quiz together was Madonna’s “Frozen” from _Ray of Light_. It’s hard to pick a lyric for people to guess when every line comes from six dozen other songs. “Give yourself to me, you hold the key”? Gag.
I’m not entirely sure, but I [...]

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