Monthly Archives: December 2008

The Best Music of 2008

Update: Ok, music files should be fixed, unless the site crashes again. If you end up with a buffering problem… I guess it’s up to you how patient you want to be. You can hear pieces of pretty much all … Continue reading

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The Terrace Agenda Winter Collection

We know what you’re thinking: what do you get the President who has everything? This Christmas, give him a gift that says, “thanks for the great job you did. Ta-ta. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.” … Continue reading

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That’s Entertainment II

That’s Entertainment II By JP Jeff was always a free spirit. Still is. He is probably more like our mother than any of the rest of us, our sister included. He is self-sufficient, insightful, opinionated, stubborn, bright as hell, decisive, … Continue reading

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Time Warp

The Agenda’s invaluable reader and researcher, Chad, dug up this old email I sent out on October 6, 2006, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time record high. I’m reprinting it here for no reason other than that … Continue reading

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For Jeana.

The Golden Globe nominees were announced today. I was reluctant to report on them, but we received a lot of outside pressure from influential readers… you’ll soon understand my hesitation.

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Yes, that was Kate Beckinsale you saw in my dream, but we were only playing Parcheesi, I swear.

Apparently, Japanese scientists from the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories (obviously) have created a technology which allows them to reconstruct various images directly from the human brain. At this point, the images are very rudimentary (the letters in the word “neuron,” … Continue reading

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Sorry for living the American Dream

Well, fuck you very much. Continue reading

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Mad Dog and Glory

My favorite pitcher of all-time, Greg Maddux, has retired. The guy they call “Mad Dog” (for no good reason except that his last name sounds like “mad dog”) is the greatest pitcher of his generation. He ends his career with … Continue reading

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That’s Entertainment (Part 8)

That’s Entertainment (Part 8) By JP As little brothers go, Jeffrey was probably the best first one I could have had, but when we were young many of the things he did were annoying and frustrating, because he was a … Continue reading

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Contrived Contrition, Concealed Conceit

It doesn’t take a lot of spine to fly a private jet to a congressional hearing and ask for 25 billion dollars for your belly-up industry. But it takes balls to drive there two weeks later and act like everything’s … Continue reading

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