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« Reply #345 on: March 08, 2007, 09:05:21 AM »
Andrew Gold's mom is back on stage at 77.  You can see where he got his hair and eyes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/theater/06marni.html?_r=1&ref=movies&oref=slogin
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« Reply #346 on: March 23, 2007, 07:16:22 AM »
those wacky Starship folks are suing each other again...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/23/BAGBIOQBCI1.DTL
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« Reply #347 on: March 28, 2007, 02:31:47 PM »
The Marines are banning "large, garish" tattoos.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/28/national/a110350D55.DTL

Doesn't this effectively prevent 2/3 of all 18-to-24-year-old men from joining the Corps? LOL!
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« Reply #348 on: March 28, 2007, 06:24:06 PM »
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The Marines are banning "large, garish" tattoos.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/28/national/a110350D55.DTL

Doesn't this effectively prevent 2/3 of all 18-to-24-year-old men from joining the Corps? LOL!


No tattoos? In the MARINES? Yeesh, I thought you had to have three tattoos just to get thru boot camp.
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« Reply #349 on: March 28, 2007, 10:11:24 PM »
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The Marines are banning "large, garish" tattoos.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/28/national/a110350D55.DTL

Doesn't this effectively prevent 2/3 of all 18-to-24-year-old men from joining the Corps? LOL!


Pretty much.  Geesh, the armed forces are hardly in a position to be turning people away.  Although this precedent could help give the 18-to-24ers an easy out if we ever have a draft again.
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« Reply #350 on: May 22, 2007, 10:59:52 AM »
The Chron's "Summer of Love" page, with links to the articles in their current series:

http://www.sfgate.com/summeroflove/
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« Reply #351 on: May 22, 2007, 12:15:30 PM »
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« Reply #352 on: May 22, 2007, 03:01:07 PM »
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The Devil made him do it. Yeah, sure:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/22/national/a113903D92.DTL


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« Reply #353 on: May 31, 2007, 04:35:28 PM »
Anyone had a chance to check out the new "street view" feature of Google Maps? It's kind of cool--and kind of scary.

http://maps.google.com  

(Btw, you have to install the newest version of Flash for it to work.)
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« Reply #354 on: June 06, 2007, 10:31:36 PM »
Some great storytelling as well as some great digifiles to grab at this MP3 blog:
http://moistworks.com/

I sometimes wish I had the compunction to maintain an MP3 blog.  Alas, the legal grounds are more than shaky, and blogging's a major commitment; once you stop posting regularly, people start forgetting to stop by.
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« Reply #355 on: June 06, 2007, 10:56:00 PM »
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Some great storytelling as well as some great digifiles to grab at this MP3 blog:
http://moistworks.com/


You MUST download from that blog: George Harrison's demo version of "It Don't Come Easy," which Ringo scored the hit with.  I hadn't considered how George-like that song is.
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« Reply #356 on: June 07, 2007, 07:59:19 AM »
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Some great storytelling as well as some great digifiles to grab at this MP3 blog:
http://moistworks.com/


You MUST download from that blog: George Harrison's demo version of "It Don't Come Easy," which Ringo scored the hit with.  I hadn't considered how George-like that song is.


Damn, you're so right!

And I LOVE the 5 versions of "Son of a Preacher Man" -- takin' time to make time, indeed!

That site is a treasure-trove... I've bookmarked it for further enjoyment.
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« Reply #357 on: June 07, 2007, 05:10:50 PM »
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Damn, you're so right!

And I LOVE the 5 versions of "Son of a Preacher Man" -- takin' time to make time, indeed!

That site is a treasure-trove... I've bookmarked it for further enjoyment.


confession: i always thought that song WAS by harrison. but now that i've heard his version. well...i'm even more so.

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« Reply #358 on: June 22, 2007, 05:45:17 PM »
damn!  I only got a score of 66.7%!

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« Reply #359 on: June 23, 2007, 01:12:27 AM »
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damn!  I only got a score of 66.7%!

http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/


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