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Respighi Would Have Dug It

Worth checking out just for the arrangement of the Pines. The recording was quashed in 1975 when Hawthorne was ejected from the field after they were protested successfully for having overaged members. Some of the guys in the drum line looked like they were in their 30s but no one could remember a competitive protest that put out a national championship contender.

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Die, Yuppie, Die!

Stinque Economic Reform Proposal: Appoint The Punisher as the United States’ Comptroller of the Currency

In this Stinque.com dramatization, The Punisher answers bankers’ complaints about capital reserves by decapitating and shooting the fuckers. This is what bank regulation is all the fuck about.

Nojo, you ready to make that call?

Proposal: Buck Dharma and Paco DeLucia on a Metal Flamenco Tour

Armando’s Rhumba a la A Capella

Some of the interpretation is rough but these kids have great taste in repertoire. Dang. And the ensemble just executes.

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Jesus, These People Can Sing

Going into the head section at 0:45 and at 2:46, it is nothing less than breathtaking how well the quartet lands ahead of the beat so perfectly in time with Steve Gadd, on drums. Finesse and a steely sense of time.

Fatal Confection at Large in the USA?

Criminally negligent TSA agents seized an alleged cupcake bomb from Massachusetts college lecturer Rebecca Hains on Christmas Eve at a Las Vegas airport and, as of last night, no one at the agency has been able to produce a record of the disposition of the purportedly fatal confection.

No one knows if the alleged cupcake bomb was taken to a remote location and detonated, if it was tested for explosives or if it was possibly mislaid and intercepted by persons unknown with no appreciation of the destructive potential of this alleged ordnance.

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