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...household name and inspired an annual Jumping Frog Jubilee, held the third weekend in May in Angels Camp. Current world record: 21 ft. 5 3/4 in., set by Rosie the Ribeter in 1986. Visitors to the area can see two other record holders: a 44-lb. crystallized leaf gold nugget, purportedly the world's biggest, worth $3 million, at the Ironstone Vineyards; and the giant sequoias, members of the world's largest living species, in Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Twain visited Bret Harte, another gold-rush writer, at Harte's cabin near California Caverns, where, according to local lore...
...syncopated keyboard touches that the song was actually about wretched abjection, the ways we degrade ourselves for love. Lead singer Nina Persson might have sounded impossibly glamorous, but she was still "cry[ing], pray[ing] and beg[ging]" as a pathetic, deflated masochist. Far from the weightless retro nugget it resembled, "Lovefool" used its radiant hooks to the most perverse of aims, like a tootsie roll pop with an acid core. Not bad for a band too often pigeonholed as mild candy for the "Easy Listening" dustbin...
...band that gave us the nineties' version of "I Will Survive" now shows us that they can do just that--survive. Titled Prolonging the Magic, Cake's newest release doesn't use the exact same brand of magic as its last album, Fashion Nugget. Things are a little more upbeat this time around. The Sacramento, California-based band's latest work will probably appeal to even more people than just those "The Distance" freaks, who might be disappointed that there is no similar song on the album. Prolonging the Magic doesn't have all of the same ingredients as Cake...
...lyrics are simple and honest: "I had a match, but she had a lighter/I had a flame, but she had a fire." Or, "You're never ever there." There are fewer tricks and traps with irony than on Nugget--the members of Cake allow themselves to say and play what they mean. There is something to be said for a lack of double meanings...
...magazine as it was going to press in order to make it more exciting. Every Monday I felt the special kinship that comes from having tried to pull off the same feats; I could admire the smart way he had packaged a cover, spotted a trend or elicited a nugget of reporting...