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Wes Phillips
Let's Give a Big Hand
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 22, 2007  |  0 comments
. . . To a pianist with small hands.
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Stephen Mejias
If you wear this t-shirt...
Stephen Mejias  |  Feb 21, 2007  |  14 comments
Hi ______.
Just as you thought, we'd like to come up with a snazzy catch-phrase to go along with the new Stereophile t-shirt design. Some ideas:
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Robert Baird
Saving All My Love For You
Robert Baird  |  Feb 21, 2007  |  0 comments
How anyone was surprised that Britney Spears has shaved her head is beyond me. As Stereophile's assistant editor, the intrepid Stephen Mejias reminded me, she was brainwashed as a toddler thanks to that malevolent mindfuck known as The Mickey Mouse Club. Add to that she's a piece of unreconstructed white trash from Louisiana, who's now been coddled beyond all description and suddenly head shaving looks like the least of her worries.
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Wes Phillips
Interjection, Your Honor
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 21, 2007  |  0 comments
Ben Yagoda on meh, awwa, feh, heh, and all those other interjections. How could he leave out d'oh!?
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Wes Phillips
Honest Recordings
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 21, 2007  |  0 comments
Conductor Kenneth Woods has some thoughts about "honest" recordings. Follow the link to the University of Houston's listserv for a surprising revelation about another widespread classical hoax.
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Wes Phillips
Tapeworms Are About As Strange As Animals Can Get
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 21, 2007  |  0 comments
Carl Zimmer gives us the straight, er, poop on tapeworms.
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Wes Phillips
This is Your Brain on Music
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 21, 2007  |  0 comments
While we listen to music, the areas of your brain that enable our bodies to move are active, even if we're not. The brain, it seems, likes rhythm.
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Robert Baird
Breed
Robert Baird  |  Feb 20, 2007  |  0 comments
Today Kurt Cobain would have been 40. Seems like yesterday when we were seeing that searing image of his suicide: the photo taken in the room where he died, of his Converse All Stars, still on his feet, sticking out from behind a piece of furniture.
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Wes Phillips
Which One's Pink?
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 20, 2007  |  0 comments
For Nick Mason, it's driving; for Roger Waters, it's being driven.
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Wes Phillips
Tool Envy
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 20, 2007  |  0 comments
Pay attention, class. This little rope-climbing device looks pretty slick. As the article says, the real trick isn't ascending the rope, but ascending the rope without damaging it. The rule of thumb we used when I did technical caving was to retire any rope we had "shocked" with an impact or weight-bearing kink.
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