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@TheOnion
Decided to go to Iraq for Thanksgiving. So weird. It's like people here haven't even heard of it. Getting bad vibes.
@NickSwardson
“What have I done stuck my dick in?”: 15 songs about VD avc.lu/UTc3JK
@TheAVClub
(also a Must click.. glad that "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee" made the cut)
ALERT: Serial rapist Tom Gobbler is on the loose. He is described as being "a sick, sick man. And he is not a turkey." onion.com/T54fER
@TheOnion
Brown Friday: Day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers huff.to/10ez67v
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2. Click if you dare
From our healthy food alternatives correspondant..
A picture of all 37 ingredients that make up a Twinkie.
FD&C Yellow #5.. I prefer #7. More robust.
P.S. Ever wonder what High Fructose Corn Syrup looks like?
3. New Favorite Website
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rewind
I think I've been linked to different articles on here before, but now that I've found the main page.. Could be trouble. Could seriously cut into my site-browsing time, as Ima be browsing this one site for some time... Some highlights:
-The Official Joe Biden Aging Timeline
70 years of malarkey. Happy birthday, Veep. (Yes, he's had that crazy look in his eye for years!)
-10 Things You Didn't Know About “Saved By The Bell”
Or have forgotten since you don't watch the show while getting ready for school anymore? (Actually, just 9 for me. Who can forget the time Jesse underwent counseling for her caffeine pill addiction!
-Daniel Craig With Long Hair
I will never look at him the same way ever again. (Yup. Bond.. ruined. No need to see Skyfall now)
4. So you want to be in The News Biz...?
You think your work environment is bad? Imagine one that led to this insane situation..
Good update info from Gawker...
"There was a constant disrespecting and belittling of staff and we both felt there was a lack of knowledge from ownership and upper management in running a newsroom to the extent that I was not allowed to structure and direct them professionally," Michaels said, adding that news teams "were expected to do somewhat unbalanced news, politically, in general."
"Constant disrespecting and belittling of staff" Wait, that's wrong? Don't tell that to channel 7...
5. Another re-imagining.. coming soon.
It's kind of like X-men meets Game of Thrones meets a Children's Book. Though I fear it won't be as cool as that sounds... (and now I fear that doesn't sound cool at all)
(Is it required by law that with all these remakes and relaunches they include the words "IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE STORY..." in the trailer? I guess so.)
((And while we're here, if I were to tell you there was now a 7-minute version of The Hobbit trailer out.. is that something you might be interested in? Thought so. Nerd.))
6. Collector's Edition
Great, sprawling piece in the New Yorker on the Dead, their tapers and fans, and how their music lives on through their live recordings. As someone who still has racks of cassette tapes (both kinds, Phish AND Dead) sitting in my basement.. I took it to heart.
Annals of Obsession
Deadhead
The afterlife.
by Nick Paumgarten November 26, 2012
The Grateful Dead in San Francisco, in 1970. “Our audience is like people who like licorice,” Jerry Garcia said. “Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_paumgarten#ixzz2CtTHLXl6
I think this paragraph sums it all up quite nicely. At least better than I've ever been able to:
None of it sounded like that album of greatest hits. It was denser, feverish, otherworldly. If you took an interest, you’d copy a few tapes, listen to those over and over, until they began to make sense, and then copy some more. Before long, you might have a scattershot collection, with a couple of tapes from each year. It was all Grateful Dead, but because of the variability in sonic fidelity, and because the band had been at it for twenty years, there were many different flavors and moods. Even the compromised sound quality became a perverse part of the appeal. Each tape seemed to have its own particular note of decay, like the taste of the barnyard in a wine or a cheese. You came to love each one, as you might a three-legged dog. Or, having decided that it all sounded like one long meandering dirge, you went back to whatever normal people listened to.
(or, if you were like me.. you didnt. There was nothing like finding someone who had a stash of tapes back in the day, then scanning his collection to see what shows he had that you didnt. Thats how I met quite a few friends freshman year at Umass... and how my one rack of tapes quickly multiplied into 3...
Uhmemba me?
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7. Helpful Holiday Hints
How to save thanksgiving dinner (“There's no place for a beer bong at Thanksgiving.” ??? OK, how about without the beer?)
How to ruin thanksgiving dinner (#6. When it's your turn to say what you're thankful for, laugh a little to yourself, and say "Life. Just life, man." Then grab the hand of the person next to you and squeeze while maintaining eye contact.)
How to ensure a smooth day of travel (don't eat the airline food)
8. Get Some
When I heard "star grabs Jessica Biel's Breast" this was not what I had in mind.
9. 138 point special
Did you hear that some college hoops player scored 138 points in a game? Of course, Deadspin has to shit on it... but I'm sorry. I dont care how or why it happened. thats some serious game. Even Kobe is impressed... and he's the ultimate douche:
Taylor had 58 points at halftime.
Then he got hot.
Taylor was 32 of 58 from the field — including 18 3s — in the final 20 minutes and averaged an astonishing four points a minute in the second half.
"It felt like anything I tossed up was going in," Taylor said.
Bryant, who has a shoe that bears his Black Mamba nickname, has a theory.
"He must have been wearing the Mambas, man. Only Mambas have no conscience to shoot the ball that much," said Bryant, who has an 81-point game, second-best in NBA history, on his resume.
10. Pre-Thanksgiving Mash
From our stupid mashup correspondent...
Biggie Smalls vs. Thomas the Train
Bacon pancakes vs New York ( i think we know who wins that battle)
And while we're here.. an oldy but a headie..
Lil John vs Lazy Town (still an all-time favorite)
11.Get Your Phil
Nice little interview with the Brontosaurus one about his awesome new venue. If you havent heard or seen the deal, he opened a bar/club near his pad, and basically just goes there every night and jams..
Phil Lesh Talks Terrapin Crossroads
12. Get Your Phish
The roll down thanksgivings pasts continue with day 2 of the run at Worcester. And if you thought the open ending jamming of the 1st night was out there.. you ain't seen/heard nothing yet. Set II includes the "Runaway Jam"... as in, it never stopped. It just kept going and going. Sure, Runaway Jims had been stretched out before.. but never to this length. We're talking about one full hour.
Saturday, 11/29/1997
Worcester Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA
Set 1: The Wedge, Foam, Simple -> The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, The Sloth, Ginseng Sullivan, Saw It Again, Horn, Water in the Sky, David BowieSet 2: Runaway Jim[1] > Strange Design > Harry Hood > Prince Caspian, Suzy Greenberg
Encore: Buffalo Bill, Moby Dick[2] > Fire
[1] Almost an hour long. Harry Hood teases and a strong Weekapaug jam where the entire melody of Weekapaug was played.
[2] Trey imitated Robert Plant's intro to Moby Dick from the album The Song Remains the Same.
[2] Trey imitated Robert Plant's intro to Moby Dick from the album The Song Remains the Same.
Notes: This Runaway Jim is one of the longest versions of any song ever played by Phish. It ran slightly under an hour and included Harry Hood teases and a strong Weekapaug jam where the entire melody of Weekapaug was played. Buffalo Bill was announced as Fishman’s favorite song. Moby Dick was performed for the first time since February 19, 1993 (435 shows) and featured Trey imitating Robert Plant’s intro to Moby Dick from the album The Song Remains the Same.
This show was part of the "1997 Fall Tour (a.k.a. Phish Destroys America)."
Video:
As mentioned, this Jim was pretty long.. so can only find it in pieces on youtube.. but here's part I..
Clearly, you'll need to carve out some time to really get into this one (zing!)
Audio:
Full show can be streamed or downloaded here.. I'm actually looking forward to revisiting that first set.
Also note, phish did release a soundboard of this Jim as part of their live bait series.. here's that link too..
(Update! Looks like the live bait is no longer free... well that's weird. Indian Givers! (zing!))
My Two Cents:
-Since this was before the days of iphones, and twitter, this was the days when I would actually write down the setlist every night in a lil pad. I dont have it handy (though I probalby do it have somewhere) but I distinctly remember writing out that second set something like this:
Runaway Jim>
Jam>
Jam 2>
Jam 3>
Weekapaug Jam
Yes.. I was that kind of nerd. Anyway, if you like your phish spaced out and funked out, and your mind blown out.. just give it a listen. Nothing I can really say about it will do it justice.
-Obviously, 2nd set get a lot of love, and rightly so, but this is also a pretty nasty 1st set. Wedge, Foam, Simple to open it.. a solid, unusual pairing.. And you can never go wrong with a Man Who Stepped > Avinu Malkeinu.. that was clearly for Gordon's Massachusetts family (hebes) who were in the house. Just a nice mix of tunes that 1st set... and a perfect example of why we "collectors" keep on collecting so many different shows. It's like a random mix tape of favorite phish tunes that you never hear together.. until you do.
Well, that should keep you busy till Friday. No work tomorrow, so TDS will take the day off.. we'll return on Friday with the dramatic conclusion of Turkey Run 97...
Happy Thanksgiving Bitches.
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