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My buddy Jon Iverson is cuckoo for car shows and has regaled me for hours with his photos of awesome rides (it's a California thing). I've always admired the artistry, but it never occurred to me that so much of the incredible pin stripe art was free hand.
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Apparently Amy Sutherland's essay on using positive reinforcements techniques she learned from animal trainers to "condition" her husband's behavior was the most linked-to article <I>The New York Times</I> published this summer.

"Many young people claim to be regularly taking part in two surveys a day, often with different research organisations."

While doing some research for our November issue, I found myself clicking around the Bel Canto site, and guess what I discovered:

Associate publisher, Keith Pray leads a parade of Primedia staffers from the office, down the hall, through the revolving doors, onto Madison Avenue, and into Mulligan's Irish Pub. On his way, he sings out:

It's not all riches and gorgeous readers, you know.

When it comes to guitar solos, apparently it <I>is</I> all in the way you hold your lips.

Bookmine book store has posted a list of stupid customer queries that sounds strangely familiar. When I used to work at Tower Classical, I received variations on these, ranging from "Do you have Taco Belle's Canon&mdash;with real cannon?" to "Do you have any records Mozart recorded before he died?"

Joan C. Gratz's seven minute animated, um, trip through art&mdash;from <I>La Gioconda</I> to Chuck Close. It's 2D claymation from 1992, but it was new to me.

<blockquote><i>I put this one in so you could hear some of the Cash Brothers in action. It came up in the comments to an earlier blog entry, and was a big reason for wanting to send you this disc. Note: the pop in the beginning is on the CD; maybe something in the master.</i></blockquote>