PHILADELPHIA, PA-

Recently I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in live local music shows: the infiltration of teen bands, organized and financed by the Paul Green School of Rock. If you’re not familiar with the “school of rock” (which members are quick to point out is different from the movie of the same title, but not different from the documentary Rock School, which is about the Paul Green School of Rock) it’s, well…pretty much just like the movie and the documentary. It’s parents paying money for their kids to pretend to be rock stars.

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LAS VEGAS, NV - 

Well, folks, we’re almost a month into 2009 and things are already crazy. Things have happened. A failed president ends his reign of incompetence. A new guy lives in the White House. The Cardinals are going to the Super Bowl. A man in the Philippines took some video of a ghost on his phone. 

And that’s just in the past three weeks. Anyhow, here’s some other natural and unnatural observations:

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