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17 Jan 2011 12:19

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Offbeat: The Washington Post agrees: The DC Metro makes free-jazz music

  • We’ve been saying for months that there is a great found-sounds album to be made from the incidental noises from the DC Metro’s escalators. Some of the escalators sound like they’re performing free-jazz. It appears the Washington Post agrees with us, because they wrote an article about it. Nobody steal our idea, OK guys? source

24 Dec 2009 10:33

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Politics: Harry Reid’s mistake “no” vote leads to this clever recovery

  • I spent a very restless night last night trying to figure out how I could show some bipartisanship. And I think I was able to accomplish that for a few minutes today.
  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid • On voting no for a bill that he spent weeks pushing the rest of his members to support. A funny little aside that in the end didn’t mean anything, as ultimately, he voted yes, and we all just laughed at the guy and said “aw, shucks, Harry.” source

27 Sep 2009 10:48

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Culture: It was not a (#&(@! good night for SNL newbie Jenny Slate

  • 3 SNL cast members have F-bombed live on air, including last night source