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Now that O.J.'s come out with his TV interview and his book, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. The DVD/CD tie-in. How about a soundtrack album featuring OJ enthusing about he "may" have done it. Or a tribute record: "Song for OJ." Or possibly "OJ sings the hits of …" Don’t laugh (or gag). Anyone unbalanced enough to write this book, presumably for the money, no matter what it's doing to his children, is ego-blind enough to think he could make it in the music business. Hey, he's already been an actor.

Heard a fairly scary rumor this week that I'm trying to confirm. Supposedly, you now only need sales of 50,000 units to jump into the upper third of the Billboard album charts. Consider that number against the fact that the two largest selling albums ever, Thriller and the first edition of the Eagles Greatest Hits have sold something north of 25 million copies and you get some idea of how shocking this stat is if true.

Had the old boy lived past the ripe old age of 27 (thank you tequila and morphine), Gram Parsons would have turned 60 last week on November 5.

Although she's smirking at Huckleberry's antics, you just know Bagheera wishes she'd discovered the CD case first.

Holds 400 CDs plus one 16lb cat.

For its 50th anniversary, <I>The New Scientist</I> asked 70 of the world's "most brilliant" scientists to predict the biggest breakthrough in our next 50.

Wait until you see their marching bands! In this performance: Piano Concerto No 2 by Shostakovich, <I>Transfigured Night</I> by Schoenberg, and Symphony No.10 by Shostakovich.

Rolf Potts argues that Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra" is more timeless than <I>Howl</I>.