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I think this is a not so subtle ruse to get guys to iron. If so, good job.

<a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118953936892024096.html">This</a…; Wall Street Journal article asks: "Are MP3s and the iPod ruining pop music?"

Moises Kaufman has written <I>33 Variations</I>, a play that explores Beethoven's obsession with Diabelli's inane little waltz. Sounds worth seeing&mdash;or you could buy <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/musicrecordings/506dia/">this</A&gt;.

Word!

Euan Ferguson took the Tube last week. "Only three stops on the Piccadilly line between Knightsbridge and the centre of town, and I would have got there more quickly, pleasantly, and safely by crawling backwards through the linking sewers with a twitching rat in my mouth and open bleeding weals on my bare backside."

We're shipping our November issue today. Shipping gets me all excited and nervous. I don't sit, I shake. I don't walk, I dance. I don't talk, I sing. Like Willie Colon: Cua cua ra, cua cua!

Growing up in the shadow of Monticello, I was raised on tales of Jefferson's taste for wine&mdash;after all, the estate had its own vineyards, distillery, and acres of crocuses for saffron. What had us all buzzing were the acres of hemp&mdash;local heads maintained that TJ never missed a hemp harvest. <I>Right</I>.

Apes and wolves do not. Not news to any dog owner, although I cannot speak for ape or wolf owners.

Don't recognize the name? He's the guy who brought you Two Buck Chuck's. He 's a bit of a bully and he's crude&mdash;and, as Joel Stein notes, <I>that's</I> when someone with a notebook is following him around.

Match the side-effects with the commonly prescribed drugs. I only scored 40%&mdash;and only that high because I had taken one of them. Kind of scary.