Now he finds a good come back. If he would have made this argument two and a half years ago, we might have started extricating ourselves from the deadly mess that is President Bush’s Iraq War. Thanks senator.
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I’m not sure what possessed us, but Annie and I took a ride up to the Nassau Park shopping center in West Windsor to do a last-minute exchanges and hit Sam’s Club for some provisions.
After finishing up at Sam’s we grabbed some food at the new Mexican place. In the time it took us to walk there, order and sit down, the quiet parking lot turned into a massive traffic jam, cars everywhere. It looked like Giants Stadium after a game or a concert, only the traffic was coming in as well as going out.
Now, this is a bad lot in the middle of March, a traffic nightmare; three days before Christmas? Well, I should have known better.
But that’s not the point. The center’s management company should have known better and had security personnel out in force, directing traffic, managing crowds they had to know were coming.
I’ve learned my lesson. Has management?
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There are few things dumber than
I received quite a few e-mails in response to my post and subsequent follow on the state of American radio. Most agreed with my observations, and nearly all wanted to put in a word for WFMU, one of the last remaining bastions of free-form radio.
FMU — along with WFUV, where the great Vin Scelsa plies his trade, and Y-Rock on XPN — is worth listening to. But it’s existence, as my e-mailers would attest, only further proves my point: That American radio has narrowed itself to the point of irrelevancy. The fact is, we’re left to tune in the tiniest of independent, often university-connected, stations to get beyond the computerized playlists that dominate.
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Favorite new bands:
1. Arctic Monkeys
2. Art Brut
3. Earl Greyhound
4. Corrine Bailey Rae
5. Brett Dennen
6. Editors
7. Panic! At the Disco
8. Bitter:Sweet
9. The Rakes
Five bands I found this year that were not new, only new to me:
1. The Hold Steady
2. Snow Patrol
3. Gomez
4. Get Set Go
5. Jolie Holland
6. O.K. Go
7. Spoon
8. Hacienda Brothers
Consider this a partial list.
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This week’s Dispatches is a fleshed out version of a post from earlier this week, on the state of radio.
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Hank Kalet 