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Corey Anderson - American Idle

January 2007
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Pres. Bush reveals details of latest Iraq strategy

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Posted by Corey Anderson at January 29, 2007 5:42 PM | Comments (1)

 

American Idle Friday Random Ten (1/19)

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Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Just a Cool Cat, et al., here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Uncontrollable Urge - Devo 2.0
2. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her - XTC
3. Rakim - Dead Can Dance
4. Something Fast - The Sisters of Mercy
5. Volcano - Damien Rice
6. The Butterfly Collector - Garbage
7. Sour Shores - Portatastic
8. In the Morning of the Magicians - The Flaming Lips
9. Pump It - Black Eyed Peas
10. Studying Stones - Ani DeFranco

Tell me yours!

Posted by Corey Anderson at January 26, 2007 7:09 AM | Comments (12)

 

2008 GOP hopefuls suffer setback when sides choose shirts and skins

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Posted by Corey Anderson at January 26, 2007 6:37 AM | Comments (0)

 

Little Billy Carlson over on Ashland announces he will form an exploratory committee for a 2044 presidential run

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Posted by Corey Anderson at January 25, 2007 10:06 AM | Comments (0)

 

American Idle Friday Random Ten (1/19)

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Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Just a Cool Cat, et al., here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Hot Soft Light - The Hold Steady
2. Louisiana Stomp - Clifton Chenier
3. Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley
4. In Fear of Fear - Bauhaus
5. Underdog World Strike - Gogol Bordello
6. Crown of Life - Soul Stirrers
7. Just Like a Woman - Bob Dylan
8. Mambo 8 - Perez Prado
9. Good Year for the Roses - Elvis Costello
10. Is That Love - Squeeze

FYI: I'm on my way to Vegas, so if you add your Top Ten, I won't be able to approve the comment until Sunday.

Posted by Corey Anderson at January 19, 2007 3:54 AM | Comments (10)

 

Bush brings up his giant robot monkey army idea for the 100th time

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Posted by Corey Anderson at January 18, 2007 2:53 PM | Comments (2)

 

Recently discovered bugs in Apple's new iPhone

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Camera adds 10 pounds

"Stun" setting sometimes kills

Only shows the weather report for Cupertino, California

Calendar feature skips unlucky #13

Needs plutonium refill every three months

Steve Jobs's "My Life in Pictures" with score by Brian Eno takes up half the memory

Weighs 216 pounds

Complimentary Quarterflash catalog missing extended remix of Take Me to Heart

Runs on Windows 98

Is $500

Posted by Corey Anderson at January 15, 2007 9:23 AM | Comments (0)

 

American Idle Friday Random Ten (1/12)

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Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Just a Cool Cat, et al., here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. I Want to Be Ready - Ben Harper
2. Musette and Drums - Cocteau Twins
3. Tame - Pixies
4. Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head - They Might Be Giants
5. Let's Go - Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas
6. Believer - BT
7. When You're Young - The Jam
8. O Death - Ralph Stanley
9. Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me) - Willie Nelson
10. Middle is Gold - Mates of State

Tell me yours!

Posted by Corey Anderson at January 12, 2007 6:46 AM | Comments (10)

 

Winter Carnival Medallion Hunt Clue #1:

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If you see a little clump of snow in a park, that's where it's hidden

Posted by Corey Anderson at January 11, 2007 12:05 PM | Comments (0)

 

Bush nominates former Baghdad envoy John Negroponte to be deputy secretary of state

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Following the announcement, the two gentlemen donned top hats and tails and performed "Puttin' on the Ritz."

Posted by Corey Anderson at January 5, 2007 3:55 PM | Comments (0)

 

American Idle Friday Random Ten (1/5)

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Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Just a Cool Cat, et al., here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Can't Buy Me Love - Natty Remo
2. Take It Out to the Bar Game - Vinnie and the Stardusters
3. Shenandoah - Richard Thompson
4. Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley & the Wailers
5. Holly Hobby - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
6. Love Gravy - Rick James & Ike Turner
7. Let It Be Me - Magic Elephant Orchestra
8. So Says I - The Shins
9. Martha My Dear - The Beatles
10. Straight Old Line - Split Enz

Tell me yours!

Posted by Corey Anderson at January 5, 2007 6:55 AM | Comments (12)

 

Michele Bachmann takes oath of office on 47 Bibles

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Posted by Corey Anderson at January 4, 2007 3:07 PM | Comments (0)

 

Yahoo News picks up on the Obama/Osama meme...

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Following CNN's Monday night broadcast of Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer in which the phrase "Where's Obama" was placed over a photo of Osama Bin Laden and his second-in-command Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Yahoo! News photos page features a photo of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) listening to testimony in front of the Federal Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health in December 2006 in Naperville, Ill. with the cutline "Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaida."

Posted by Corey Anderson at January 3, 2007 3:36 PM | Comments (32)

 

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