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Maybe it's because of the rain. Maybe it's because of the Mets. There's no reason for me to be thinking of this now, but I am. And so:

On this grayest of Fridays, the City's streets are wet with such strange sadness. How could it have happened? I, and many others, wake still stunned. How is it that their season is already complete, without ring, without title?

According to Sam Anderson, "To the millions of us flitting around the edges of hipness, he is our Geek Bard, our Troubadork."

Doo-dah!

Tipped off by <I>Stereophile</I> reader David Goodwin, I recently visited the San Francisco Airport Museum's beautifully thought-out and executed exhibit <A HREF="http://www.sfoarts.org/exhibits/f2/f2-current.html"><I>The History of Audio: The Engineering of Sound</I></A>. Installed to coincide with the 121st convention of the Audio Engineering Society, held at San Francisco's Moscone Center October 5&ndash;8, the exhibit runs through May 2007 in the North Connect Gallery of the airport's Terminal 3 (footnote 1).

I like "Existential Threat," which strikes me as almost as funny as my favorite <I>real</I> existential road sign, which I spotted in an arroyo on I-25 between Albuquerque and Santa Fe: "Gusty Winds may exist."