Word: deejaying
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...your base are belong to us." Late last year, fans with too much time on their hands started doctoring photos to show this last phrase cropping up everywhere from George W. Bush billboards to Budweiser ads to the cover of TIME. Then Kansas City computer programmer and part-time deejay Jeffrey Ray Roberts, 23, sampled the quote and added an annoyingly catchy dance track. "I did it for the sheer inside-joke value," he says. "Everyone was trying to one-up each other." Next came a two-minute music video, and soon "All your base!" was being yelled...
...from Harry Winston; the groom, 32, sported a kilt, as did the couple's four-month-old son ROCCO. Among the 60 or so invitees were some famous people (Gwyneth Paltrow, Sting) and some people famous for knowing famous people (Debi Mazar, Trudie Styler). After dinner, an imported Miami deejay spun records in the castle basement until the early-morning hours. By that point, Madonna had changed into a pantsuit, while the groom remained in his skirt. Just in case you wondered who wears the pants in the family...
...that functions like, well, a jukebox--only without the quarters. You can select your songs in a flash (they start playing instantly) and queue up new tunes even as the old ones are playing. The Nomad would be perfect for a long road trip with your co-pilot playing deejay--except, of course, for that pesky four-hour battery life. (Remote Solutions solves that problem by shipping its jukebox with a car-outlet adapter...
...should be a Mets fan. I identify with their culture. I appreciate how deep into the Bachman-Turner Overdrive canon the Shea Stadium deejay can dig. I have bitten my palm, Squiggy-style, over the throngs of big-haired women who have the Mets logo airbrushed on their nails. And I get pumped up when Hawaiian-born Benny Agbayani comes to bat and the scoreboard flashes, without any offense intended, HAWAIIAN PUNCH...
...electorate must decide which side was in the right in that long-ago revolutionary war, and whether it wants to be led by the people our parents warned us about or by people who agreed with our parents. It's going to be like one of those deejay-fueled battle of the bands. But with much higher stakes...