Exurban League: Recent Comments

Comment on Saturday Music Blogging - The Bird and the Bee

Jon Gabriel — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:19:57 GMT

Bought the album on iTunes last night. Not a clunker in the bunch. Rush out now in a buying frenzy!!!

Comment on Saturday Music Blogging - The Bird and the Bee

Dr. Zaius — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:49:07 GMT

This long-time Sundays fan is also duly impressed (Where have you gone Harriet Wheeler!). Love the arty, 60s film-school vibe of the video.

Comment on Saturday Music Blogging - The Bird and the Bee

Jon Gabriel — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:27:27 GMT

Well, I'm buying that one! I hear a lot of Bossa Nova in the song as well. Not the beat, but rather the minor keys, airy/girly voice, impressionistic lyrics, etc. Very nice.

Comment on Layers of fact-checkers, etc.

princetrumpet — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:56:08 GMT

Recently, much hay was made about FOX screwing up references to Lincoln/Douglas style debates and mistakenly posting a picture of Frederick Douglass. Thanks for the equal opportunity catch!

Comment on PUR genius.

Dr. Dean — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:45:29 GMT

As Exurban Jon will attest...everyday is Earth Day to me. Ms. Crawford just makes it so much sweeter to visualize.

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Jon Gabriel — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:11:39 GMT

The transcript says 50%. Watching the video, I can't tell if she said 50% or 15%. But 15% of 50 Billion is 42.5 Billion. WAY off either way.

So, in the best case scenario, she was only off by 4,500,000,000. (Which admittedly isn't too bad for a supermodel.)

If she hadn't invented the $20 re-usable water bottle, she wouldn't have anything going for her.

Comment on PUR genius.

Pete — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:52:26 GMT

Kind of a cheap shot. She said 15 percent, which is imprecise, but isn't ridiculous.

Comment on Plenty more where that came from

Dr. Zaius — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:47:48 GMT

What about the FALN?

Oh, yeah. They support Hillary. Obama's got some outreach to do, then.

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Exurban Jon — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:28:12 GMT

"Inappropriately contim... condemn.. consempt..." forget it. Can't even spell that one.

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sebastien — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:12:44 GMT

Since you asked, google says it comes from the Latin 'super' and 'cilium' meaning 'with lifted eyebrow.' Delightful.

Another common definition is 'inappropriately contemptuous', but I think it's clear that my intended meaning was 'having a distinct streak of color above the eyes'.