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Random Plot Generator

Since most seven-year-olds can think better than the average evil overlord, maybe evil overlords should hire more seven-year-olds to design their diabolical contraptions. Or they could use this random generator. Hit refresh for a new set of talking points.

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The Boy Who Cried Freebird

Mitch Myers' book, <I>The Boy Who Cried Freebird:
Rock and Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling</I>, is a lovely thing. He mixes essays, short stories, tall tales, and interviews about rock to get to the core of what it is to be a music geek. "Don't compare me to that guy in <I>High Fidelity</I>," he says. "That dude wasted all his time organizing his collection in some kind of chronological order—everybody knows that you should file your albums by genre."

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Latest Linn News

When we last <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/news/042307linn/">heard</A&gt; from Linn, <I>The Scotsman</I> reported layoffs, restructuring, and a hoped-for resurgence. On May 25, we received a note from <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/1101ivor/">Ivor S. Tiefenbrun</A>, Linn's founder, that he had returned to the positions of chairman and managing director, after an absence of four or five years due to serious health problems, thanks to new medications that have "returned [him] to fitness and restored energy levels."

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Listening #53

Today is Monday, February 5, and it's so buttercupping cold outside that the custodian couldn't get our school's oil burner started. Consequently, my daughter is home for the day, playing on the rug in front of the fireplace. (Santa brought a wooden castle and a fine selection of medieval figurines, some of which are headed for the dungeon as we speak.) I'm at my desk in the music room, on the upwind side of the house&mdash;and the wind is murder. The west wall is cold. The north wall is cold. The floorboards are cold. But the air inside is warm as toast: I'm driving my <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/artdudleylistening/706listening">Quad ESL</A> speakers with a Joule Electra VZN-80 amplifier ($12,000) that isn't at all bashful about squandering a goodly amount of energy as heat. I can't think of a more delightful quality for an amp to have, at least on a day like this.

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