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Griping about sections is just about as tired—and tiresome—as lugging around that 400-page coursepack you’ve never opened. We all know your teaching fellow (TF) doesn’t speak English, we are all painfully familiar with those awkward silences, we know how awesome you are for mastering To the Lighthouse, albeit via Sparknotes, in under an hour...
...final cut, “Clap Hands” (unfortunately unrelated to the Tom Waits classic of the same name), previously available on the “Guero” special edition. The song’s muted jump-beats, driving cowbell, and whispered call-outs earn it a page in the canon of great Beck B-sides. Oddly enough, “Clap Hands” fits perfectly with the flow of the album: it sounds like a remix. It’s a remix of all of Beck’s “Midnite Vultures?...
...once-integral Thursday night slot, which used to boast the best lineup on television. “Earl” is an irritatingly stupid show, populated by horrendous accents and worse plotlines.1. “Hot Properties”The mention of its name on this page is more than it deserves. Don’t even ask what it’s about. The worst new show of the year by a country mile.2005’s Best New Shows5. “How I Met Your Mother”Led by Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel...
...study of the best surfing beaches in Honolulu, and the Economic Development Administration for spending $20,000 to build a replica of the Great Wall of China in Indiana. My favorite fleece-because I did the research for it-was for $6,000 the Army spent funding a 17-page study on how to buy Worcestershire sauce. Prox told reporters that whoever dreamed up that project "must have been on the sauce...
...word came to hundreds of manufacturers via a seven-page letter authored by Gordon "Grubby" Clark, the 72-year-old co-inventor of the foam board and cutthroat founder of the Orange County, California company that long ago drowned out most competitors and shrewdly monopolized its niche. Admitting that his company's use of the carcinogenic toluene diisocyanate, or TDI, is a highly regulated potential health hazard, Clark cited threats of "very large fines, civil lawsuits, and even time in prison" as reasons for the closure...