Fear &amp; loathing with 45 days left
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YOGI BERRA said, &quot;It ain&#39;t over till it&#39;s over.&quot; John Kerry slumped with voters and political cognoscenti. In usually blue New Jersey, John Kerry&#39;s lead fell from 20 points to 4. Media focused on shakeup in Kerry lineup.
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Tycho: And so, our own pilgrimage comes to a close.  Thank you!  I think we all had fun.  I should stress that "we" refers to your cruel hosts, Gabriel and myself, who over the last eight years have tormented you thus with such dedication and enthusiasm.
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You deadline-dodging rotters Today is the last day for filing UK self-assessment tax returns, and believe it or not Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs website is struggling to keep up with demand.â¦
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My rÃÂ¿sumÃÂ¿ is pretty short when it comes to endurance events. There was that 23- hour nonstop drive from New Hampshire to South Carolina back in 1987, and I vaguely remember a St. Patrick's Day drinking contest at the University of Maryland that lasted quite a while (thanks, Norman).
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Okay, if the mind is powerful, how is your mind making you feel today? It's worth thinking about -- with the stock market down this year, every day worse than the last, many of us are losing lots of money, I know I am, and it's not a good feeling.  I keep arguing with myself, even though I'm losing money at a huge rate, I'm still in good shape financially, I have a nice house, I can pay the bills. But it doesn't help. Inside I feel unsettled, poor, I'm having trouble concentrating. Does it help that I've been through this before? The crash of 1987 was much worse than this downturn, and then I had no cushion, nothing to fall back on, I wasn't even employed when it happened. I was a lot closer to being broke around the turn of the century, even though the market was doing very well. But it doesn't help. No matter how many times I've been through it, I've always known that it's cyclic, that the outlook will likely improve, but knowing isn't the same as feeling. The feeling is much stronger, it can't be counteracted with logic. I can't reason with the feeling, you might say it's un-reasonable. Then I heard that a friend of mine, much younger, with a lot less at stake in the market, is having trouble sleeping because of this feeling. I realize I'm not alone, probably millions of people have a heightened sense of insecurity right now. Does that make it better? Not really... Anyway, I thought, let's post something and find out how others feel about the economy and how much of an impact is it having on our state of mind.
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Tycho:  It's been a couple weeks discussing reviews and reviewers around here, but somewhere along the way I neglected to mention that their job is essentially impossible.  The 7-9 scale they toil under is largely the result of an uneasy peace between the business and editorial wings of the venue.  No matter what score they give it, high or low, they're reviled equally by the online chorus.  Apparently, even when they do it right they're doing it wrong.
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Let&#39;s go straight to the latest hot stove news. The Daily Blog&#39;s reviews of Allure&#39;s new Chapter III album and Christmas with the Kranks will have to wait until next week.
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You don't want it to end. You want it to be 2004 forever, or at least a few more days. It's too soon to give it up. Not yet. Can't it be 2004 just a little longer?
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Sir Alex Ferguson v Roy Keane. This one's worth following, so join Mike Adamson NOW!
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Tycho:  It is often the case that we are jumped by four or five horde ten levels higher than us.  This is often because we've jumped a friend of theirs, ten levels lower than us, as retribution for some earlier act of aggression, in slavish iteration of a behavior that has - as its culmination - the end of all life, everywhere.  Kara marveled that Gabriel and I were able to escape these confrontations with such regularity.  What was our secret?  "Fear," I said, bending the microphone closer.  "Fear, and selfishness."
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From Monday the record will be available via nme.com/audio. However, if an interview with Carl Barat in today&#39;s (August 19) The Mirror newspaper is to be believed, it could be their last if Pete Doherty, currently estranged from the band, doesn&#39;t deal ...
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Tycho:   It has become the Saturday tradition to do the next strip upon the expo's stark and terrifying stage, but since Armadeaddon needed its proper epilogue it got moved out to Wednesday.  Gabe was highly indulgent of audience suggestions in the final version, far more than he is to me, adding many, many things based on them being called out from the microphone - he has a version with more additions still that he'll be putting up later today.  But there are things in there like the blue ball in the last panel - to say nothing of the official "Hot-Dog Fairy" merchandise! - that began as anecdotes and have now graduated to true PAX lore.
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Tycho:  I'm super depressed.  I thought I had invented a new word - mirthquake - and then I was going to say that you should prepare yourselves for the aforementioned, as today's comic strip was rated this or that number on the rictus scale.  I mean seriously, I've been excited all weekend.  A simple Google search put me in my place - the word is practically ubiquitous.  Expect it soon on Urban Dictionary, that mausoleum of once vibrant language.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Last minute release-date changes for  three superstar albums have made nervous retailers even more  anxious about their prospects during the holiday season.
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Eight days of agony, ecstasy and overpriced beer. Eight days that will leave us all about 15 years older, and will be worth every crease in the brow, every hair that fades to gray.
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New releases from Spoon, Smashing Pumpkins, Maria Schneider and Against Me!
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What does one look forward to this Diwali? Fireworks, of course! With Eros announcing a 2,000 + screen release for SRK and Farah KhanÂs Om Shanti Om,