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Our Knight in Shiny Armor

Of Course I'm Watching. Proud? No. Watching? Yes.

Madonna looks like Meredith Baxter Birney in Family Ties on an episode where as the zany cap on a wacky show it turned out that when Stephen stopped at Victoria's Secret the clerk mixed up his box with someone else's and he didn't notice until Elise put it on.

U2: You just keep me hangin' on. Put down the microphone stand. Go home. You're done. When Mick Jagger rocks harder than you do, that's it. It's time to cover the strobe light, take off the shades and pack it up. And excuse me? Can we dial 911 and report the mixing board that ate Mary J. Blige? Somebody open up a can of  whack and commence to engage the whackery? Thank you. Ain't nobody "carrying each other" here. Ms. Blige got Bono thrown over one shoulder and The Edge thrown over t'other and she totin'.

Kanye West's thank-you list: "...my mom..."

Enough with the standing O's.

Best Rock Album. The choice includes Coldplay, Foo Fighters, U2, Neil Young, and ... The Rolling Stones? And U2 wins? They just keep hanging on. They can't even get the bloody NOMINEES right. Do you remember what WAR sounded like? Now that was a RECORD. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was a HIT. That was music that got people up out of their cars seat with the muscles on their necks standing out like guy wires. THAT WAS ROCK AND ROLL.

Paul McCartney, Helter Skelter. MEMO TO TIVO USERS. FFWD to 1:20. Listen repeatedly.

Kelly Clarkson beat Paul McCartney. And who is she thanking. WHO IS SHE THANKING? Radio play consultants and managers and sacks of people with MBAs.  SEND LEVIATHAN AND BEHEMOTH.  The Day of Reckoning is upon us.

Kanye West and Jamie Foxx: This is why we have the Grammys. Live performance. This is why we have MUSIC. Something new, something fresh, a reason to listen and to think and to hear in depth. A reason to feel like you were present at something special.

I don't think we even need to say how we feel about U2 winning Album of the Year. Some times we can't know why unchecking the default is a ghosted option. At least Bono was gracious.

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Funny (also, food)

• Questionable Content: How do you tick off an indie rock snob?
  Now THAT'S funny.
  (tags: questionablecontent comics music)
• Recipes, Pancakes (Walnut/Cinnamon Waffles) - Bed & Breakfast Inns ONLINE
  Someday, when the waffle iron has been replaced by a waffle iron that does not smell bad, not set off the smoke alarm, nor be so ugly that people line up to gawk at it through the window, I will make this.
  (tags: waffles recipes)

• Cat and Girl - 100 Daily Dreads
  World class. Worthy of Binky and Bunny, Akbar and Jeff.
  (tags: CatAndGirl Comics quotidian)

That's cold

Joe: There was an animal called a 'hare-mouse' that lived in ice lion times. ['Ice lion times' roughly correspond to the Miocene Period.]
Dad: Uh-huh.
Joe: It's very sad, there aren't many left in modern times, because people hunted them and killed most of them, for their fur.
Dad: People hunted mice for their fur?
Joe: It was thick fur.

When it rains, it grows

If this doesn't satisfy your need for fungus pictures, (and you know who you are) there are always more.

Hate It When That Happens

• Adam Ford's NEURONN, THE CREATURE FROM A HUMAN BRAIN!!!
  Wiggy.
  (tags: migraines AdamFord comics)