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PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 29: W, X, Y and Z bring it on home

I just polished off another in a long series of plates of Thanksgiving leftovers, including a slice of the chocolate stout cake I made that I wish would just disappear already so I can stop being tempted by its ungodly delicousness. (All credit to Smitten Kitchen.) It doesn't look like I'll be seeing the end of turkey and dressing for quite some time, but one thing is finally coming to a close: National Blog Posting Month. Nearly every day this month, as part of a little project I gave the perhaps ill-advised name PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo, I've taken a look at one or a...  read more

PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 28: Hit the road with creepy Vanity Plates

If you're one of the estimated 33.2 million Americans opting to travel by car this holiday season, you're probably going to see a few vanity plates out there on our nation's roadways. But if you're one of the few million other folks traveling by train or plane, you can check out Vanity Plates: Creepiness in 8 Characters or Less for your dose of indulgent automotive self-expression....  read more

Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" still something to be thankful for

A disgusting number of Christmas songs populate the bulk of recorded music (as you'll discover when we unleash our all-holiday-music playlist on PasteRadio.com on Dec. 1st.) but far fewer have been penned in celebration of its fair sister, Thanksgiving. This makes it a bit easier to out Arlo Guthrie's 1967 "Alice's Restaurant" as the greatest Thanksgiving song ever written, but even if a sudden glut of turkey tunes were to clog our airwaves, I'm fairly confident this song would still tower above the rest. ...  read more

PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 26: Upside Down Cats in 30 words

I like your plan for NaBloPoMo: Thirty daily words on someone you've known. The one about Howard the organist made me laugh, though hopefully he didn't act on his creepiness. (What's PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo? Find out here. Just four days left!)...  read more

PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 25: Top 10 most Bright Eyes-y "T" blogs

Upon perusing the list of "T"-named blogs participating in NaBloPoMo today, I was struck by the number of titles that, purposefully or not, seemed ripped right from the back of a Bright Eyes album cover. Indeed, in Conor Oberst's ten years as Bright Eyes, he mined the depths of the longwinded (Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, "When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass") to the ordinary and domestic ("Bowl of Oranges," "A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever, and a Necklace") to the eerily named protagonists ("Tereza and Tomas," "Laura...  read more

PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 24: Spawn of She She faces the facts

Over the weekend, I offered up the seven best things about my new favorite song and my own picks for top ten albums of the year, pushing me two days closer to my goal. Then, this morning, our website suffered an apparent teeth-gnashing overload and pooped its pants. Uh-oh! I spent the downtime attempting to read each and every single "S"-named blog on November's NaBloPoMo blogroll. I got a few dozen in and then gave up, mostly out of boredom-induced exhaustion (somehow, blogs that begin with "S" seem to far more consistently embody the conundrum of tedious, icky reality than...  read more

Staff Picks - Rachael Maddux (assistant editor)

Here's the list of my top albums of 2008, which I begrudgingly cobbled together after being told, no, I was not allowed to vote for last year's Everybodyfields album in all ten spots. Don't believe anyone who tells you music journalists have it easy! Life is hard....  read more

Seven Best Things About Beyonce's “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”

Once a year or so, a super-mainstream pop song manages to defy all logic, completely endear itself to me and lodge its overblown, Auto-Tuned self squarely in my cerebral cortex. I'm usually a few months late to the game (I somehow managed to not hear Rihanna's 2007 smash earworm “Umbrella” all the way through until sometime this year) but when I fall, I fall hard. I seem to be right on time with my latest fixation, though: Beyonce's “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” just came out last month, and my first exposure to it was when she appeared on Saturday...  read more

PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 21: Rounding up the Rachels

Speeding through the Q's yesterday was fun, so I'm doing it today with the "R"-named blogs-- specifically, taking a look at how bloggers who share my name (kinda) are getting through NaBloPoMo. I could have also narrowed it down to blogs with titles beginning with "Random" or "Ramblings," but that wouldn't have actually narrowed it down much because apparently half of the blogs in the world involve either one or both of those words (frankly, I'm shocked that there are only three on this list named "Random Ramblings"). Also, I would have probably become quite mean, as I have a feeling most of those...  read more

PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 20: Minding the Q queue

Like everything else in the world, there are not that many NaBloPoMo blogs with that start with Q. Like every other day of my life, I'm feeling a bit indecisive. So my PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo entry today will run through every single one of the twelve "Q"-named blogs to see who's still going strong (not many of them, as it turns out) and who we've lost along the way. ...  read more