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Of the many advantages of living in NYC, Doctors has got to be one of the biggest. Many, many good, no nonsense ones to choose from, if you or your insurance can pay. Cosmic Justice. I survived HE 2007 only to fall prey to my own impatience. Instead of sliding the vegetable drawer in my refrigerator out slowly like a normal person, my tired, irritable and schmoozed out self jerked it and it jumped its track and smashed my foot. Damned apples and carrots weigh too friggin' much. After three days of denial and whistling in the graveyard about how it was gonna be fine, I finally broke down and dipped a damaged toe in the health care system. One scalpel slice later and things are looking up on the sore paw front.

Huckleberry finds humans amusing.

Princess Bagheera gets so weary of people sticking cameras in her face.

Who's that? Now you'll know.

When I mentioned it in our <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/">Home Entertainment Show Report</a>, I told readers that <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051407imod/">Red Wine Audio's iMod</a> was only available to 4th Generation iPods. That was true, at the time. Now, Red Wine Audio also offers their audiophile hardware modification for the newer 5/5.5 Generation iPods. Vinnie Rossi must've been working OT. I hear he has trouble staying away from the office.

I'd seen Dulce Pinz&#244;n's superhero photographs before, but until I saw them at the Brooklyn Public Library's main branch today, I hadn't realized how moving they were. The exhibit includes Pinz&#244;n's detailed costumes as well, which are surprisingly beautiful.

One day in 1978, I discovered an LP by a woman I'd never heard in the returns bin of the record store I worked in. In theory, my job was to pack those unsold records in boxes and send them to our one-stop for credit, but frequently I ended up buying those unloved discs.