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Exterminate rational thought!

This Is Not Me

Thank you, two people who emailed and one person who IMed, who together constitute three-fifths of the readership of the Columbia Journalism Review: I am not Chris Mooney. If I ever say something like "Yes, dear reader: the Bloggers Guild of America may be on its way," I beg of you -- kill me.

Sugar La La's: Three Tracks from the Vault

This will be of INTENSE INTEREST to a narrow subset of people, and of no interest to anyone else. But here are three unreleased studio tracks from 1990s Southern pop-punk band the Sugar La La's, whom I idolized in my feckless youth (they once watched along with me as my car fell into a sinkhole).

"Free Love" (4.1 mb)

"Everybody Hates Me" (4.6 mb)

"Into the Night" (4.6 mb)

Now of course these songs sound wildly different from the ecstatic experience of live La La, but them's the breaks of slavering over a long-busted band. Tracks courtesy Scottamus.

Observed, and found wanting

Leaving the Waverly Inn on a cold night, I ran into a paparazzo lurking outside the door, giant camera raised. Seeing me through his viewfinder, he lowered the camera and grunted out a disappointed, "uh ... oh," then stepped out of my way, averting his eyes in disdain. The two of us stood alone on the sidewalk, awkwardly, while I searched for a cab. No TMZ for me.