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I finally got around to working the gallery into the layout here. It isn’t 100% yet but it is damn close.
UPDATE: now with mo RSS goodness.

I blame Clay.
Beginning in January, students at UNCC can earn three credits taking the class, “Examining ‘American Idol’ Through Musical Critique.”
local6.com – Education – N.C. University Offers Class On ‘American Idol’

Badly tailored shirt? Dr. Robert M. Nelson doesn’t think so and says he is “willing to stake [his] scientific reputation to the statement that Bush was wearing something under his jacket during the debate”.
Nelson is neither conspiracy theorist nor midnight blogger. He’s a senior research scientist for NASA and for Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and [...]

This recurring line in the G.W.B. stump speeches the last couple days sounds like a reason to vote for Kerry, not against him: “A president needs to get all the facts before jumping to politically motivated conclusions.”

I’m paraphrasing here, but Michael Badnarik just said “Republicans believe in economic freedom but not personal freedom. Democrats believe in personal freedom but not economic freedom. Libertarians believe you should have both personal and economic freedom.”
It is great to see a non-Nader, non-republicrat candidate on CNN but a 5-minute interview 5 days before [...]

Christoper Walken is in it. That alone is enough reason to see Envy, right? There are other reasons: to see him act like a mysteriously criminal bum, to see Ben Stiller act like an unhappy white-collar wage slave, to see Jack Black act like a greasy loser with more money than he deserves [...]

I was going to talk about how Saved! is a meditation on hipocracy and cognitive dissonance trapped inside a teen movie. Then I was going to write about how Christians shouldn’t complain about the way the members of their religion act in the movie any more than Jews can complain about the single Jewish [...]

Not the best song in the world, not even the best political song in the world, not even the best anti-GWB song in the world.
But this is a damn good video.

It is official: I signed up for the National Novel Writing Month this year so you can look forward to a 175-page cafepress-published steaming pile of pulp fixion from yours truly about 6 weeks from now.
What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time.
Who: You! We can’t do this unless we have [...]