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2005-11-10 posted by vic Oops Sorry about the missing text yesterday. Forgot to close a FONT tag. It should be fixed now. Something Awful A couple of Goons from SomethingAwful.com collaborated on an album, without ever having met each other. Click here for the whole story and for downloadable clips and songs. It's actually pretty good, so check it out. Interesting I'm a regular reader of Salon.com. I saw this next little bit from their "I Like to Watch" column, all about TV shows. You don't need to read the whole column, but I found the intro to be interesting, so I'm copying it here: Here in America, we embrace the individual. We believe that it's important to be yourself, to make your own choices, to honor your spirit. We want you to be you. Unless, of course, you're a weirdo -- in which case we want you to bind and gag your spirit and act just like everybody else. For all of our talk of loving rebels and celebrating individualism, most of us learn very quickly that those who stray even a hair off the beaten path are harassed mercilessly until they start "acting normal" again. Still, the myth of individuality lives on, because that's the American way. Even after years of being punished for behavior that's even mildly original, we each fancy ourselves as special and unique when in fact we look and sound like everyone else, and our so-called originality is defined only by our dysfunctional tics and the particular blend of mass-produced items in our closets. Sure, we love whimsical eccentrics and outspoken activists and nutty outsiders -- in our romantic comedies and our suspense thrillers and our HBO comedy specials, not in our schools, churches and homes. Naturally you can be a total yo-yo if you're a celebrity or you're richer than God. Hell, you can even build a big playground and invite little boys to come play special, secret games with you. Otherwise? Keep it to yourself, freak.