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Contrary to popular belief in the rest of the world, the German pop charts are not dominated by
over-the-hill American TV stars. In fact, the current #1 single, outselling even the
usual imported subjects is a silly little ditty about a baby crocodile. (Think of it as the German version of SpongeBob Squarepants, kindasorta.)
I'm passing on the earworm to all of you via the four versions listed
here. You're quite welcome.
posted to MetaFilter by chicobangs
at 12:29 PM on January 11, 2005
(30 comments)
Testy Copy Editors
is a site run by
WaPo Financial Copy Editor
Philip Blanchard, with guest columns and
discussions dedicated to blowing off steam for people in the occasionally tense business of making words fit, parse properly and make sense in print.
If you've actually edited copy under a deadline, or know someone who has, you know how thankless the job can sometimes be.
posted to MetaFilter by chicobangs
at 10:36 AM on September 10, 2004
(16 comments)
Eddie Clontz,
longtime editor of the
Weekly World News, creator of Ed Anger, Bat Boy and other semi-real totems of society's fuzzy underbelly, is dead at 56.
The fact that I had to find this out in
The Economist, of all places, makes me madder than -- than -- than George S. Patton at a Peace Rally.
posted to MetaFilter by chicobangs
at 8:02 AM on February 20, 2004
(26 comments)
Warren Zevon,
one of the best damned songwriters I've ever heard, patron saint of
many famous curmudgeons, and a real cool SOB in his own right, turns 56 today.
Last September, he was told he had inoperable lung cancer, and so he's living out his remaining years in the studio, recording as much as he can. I for one am glad he's got at least one more album in him. Is there a moral to this tale?
Enjoy every sandwich.
posted to MetaFilter by chicobangs
at 7:10 AM on January 24, 2003
(16 comments)
I don't recall
this particular promotion showing up in a presidential campaign before, but then what would I know?
posted to MetaFilter by chicobangs
at 11:36 PM on September 16, 2000
(3 comments)
Jim Munroe
is a zine publisher in Toronto who wrote a couple of small novels, got one (
"Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask") picked up by Harper Collins, and got out of his contract to self-release
his latest book.
I don't know if it surprises anyone that the mainstream book scene is about as non-lucrative and power-consolidated as the music world is, but he's posted all the gory details, as well as a detailed and friendly
how-to for self-publishing.
posted to MetaFilter by chicobangs
at 1:07 PM on September 10, 2000
(4 comments)
Out of more (kinda) sad news, a possible ray of hope.
Maybe love can
build a
bridge between these two now...
posted to MetaFilter by chicobangs
at 6:59 AM on August 18, 2000
(1 comment)
