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1. I just got a coupon at Giant for Propel athletic beverages.  I am going to give it to my mom.  This is a role reversal, to be sure.
2. At Giant, I saw a product called Warm Delights.  I find this brand title very creepy, despite the fact that the product yields delicious brownies. If I were a serial killer, I would call the people that I serial killed “warm delights.”  (don’t act so shocked)
3. Broccoli on a pizza, people — it’s where it’s at.

Hot chocolate without whiskey in it is just stupid.

Hi.

Jared brought it to my attention that I haven’t posted here in a long time.

As a potential subject for a post, he suggested promoting his blogger special on WOXY tomorrow night at 8 p.m. EST.

So go to WOXY.com tomorrow (Tuesday, the 25th) and listen to him.  He’s going to play a song by Seabear that’s not the song below.

I’m sorry, was I not supposed to say that?

I meant — he’s going to play a lot of Blues Traveler.

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1. You can download this big indie mix from Urban Outfitters for free.
2. Garfield Minus Garfield is genius. It’s Garfield cartoons with the title feline taken out — making the cartoons stark, bleak and existential. Equal parts hilarious and upsetting — like most good things.
3. Here’s an article I wrote on Maria Bamford for Express.
4. I like this song by The Answering Machine.

Dear cheeseless pizza,

I resent your very existence.

Go back to Russia.

Love,

DAN

Dear Democratic primary,

You make me tired.

Please end as soon as possible, because I really don’t care who wins.  Because I have this (very odd and potentially false) sense of confidence that no matter who the nominee is, he/she will beat John McCain.

I’d like Barack to win just because I think he’d blow it out of the water, but at end of the day it does not matter.

Just stop.

Love,

DAN

Odds and ends that didn’t fit anywhere else.

On a side note, this whole project was inspired by this first track.  I played TATU at a local watering hole a few months back, just because I wanted to fill the bar with awfulness.  Less than a minute into the song, an employee of the bar unplugged the jukebox to stop it from playing.

1. TATU – All the Things She Said[youtube]muJaDZA-_Bk[/youtube]
2. Paula Cole – Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
3. Prodigy – Firestarter
4. Michael Jackson – Black or White
5. Chris De Burgh – Lady in Red
6. Seal – Kiss From a Rose
7. Staind – Outside (acoustic version)
8. Soul Asylum – Runaway Train (a great song that has not aged well)
9. Toad the Wet Sprocket – Walk on the Water
10. _________________ (fill in the blank — you got any ideas?)

My Washington Post debut!

More than any other category, I think Power Pop defines “Room Clearer” for me. Whereas many of the previous songs were bad songs that I found myself liking, these are songs that I start out liking and then feel bad about it later.

1. Nine Days – (Absolutely) Story of a Girl
2. Deep Blue Something – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
3. Del Amitri – Roll to Me
4. Tom Cochrane – Life is a Highway[youtube]nCPbL4yA7ik[/youtube]
5. Luscious Jackson – Ladyfingers (truly — a song I love that it is nearly impossible to enjoy)
6. Our Lady Peace – (entire catalog)
7. Dishwalla – Counting Blue Cars
8. The Offspring – Come Out and Play
9. Ugly Kid Joe – Everything About You
10. Third Eye Blind – Jumper

1. Sophie B. Hawkins – Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
2. Joan Osbourne – One of Us
3. Meredith Brooks – Bitch
4. Vitamin C – Graduation
5. Jewel – Hands
6. The Bangles – Eternal Flame
7. 4 Non Blondes – What’s Up?
8. Donna Lewis – I Love You Always Forever
9. Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians – What I Am
10. Shakespeare’s Sister – Stay (the video is a must-see — it’s way more fucked up than you remember. Stick with it until the end) [youtube]5pC3VJA_CB8[/youtube]