Wes Phillips

Captain Beefheart's rules for guitarists: "Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush doesn't shake, eat another piece of bread."

"'If you define the black hole as some place where you can lose objects, then there is no such thing because the black hole evaporates before anything is seen to fall in,' said [Case Western Reserve University physicist] Vachaspati."

"Seen the extra-long trailer for Ratatouille?" I asked Paul DiComo.

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A long, ultimately inconclusive, fascinating look at Colony Collapse Disorder.

Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners may be our era's Yogi Berra.

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