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Today's San Diego Union Tribune reviews Eminem's Encore which was released late last week. And not kindly. Did critic, George Varga, even listen to the record? He missed all of the 'vulgar, hate spewing', and even claims that it's 'half hearted' and 'lyrically limp'.

First George, you failed to read the lable of the CD: "... and to my fans ... s o r r y ....", then you need to listen to the whole performance from beginning to end. Don't just try to paraphrase Kelefa Sanneh's (much cleverer) New York Times Review, published last Monday.

It was, in fact, a recommendation I took from the Times article ("this is an intensely word-centric album" - it is) that convinced me to buy it now, rather than download it from iTunes later. I've since listened to it 3 times front to back (although the last time, I skipped "Mosh" - it's too depressing.) In the words of Beetlejuice: "And it keeps getting better every time"!

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Dock cleanout:

A Short Film About Posting
The Universal Currency Converter
Marco Frissen's Photography Blog
The Lennart Nilsson Award
The Mamiya ZD - my next camera?
A Discussion of Color Blindness
The Java-Jive Blog (from the island of Java)
Mirror Project: Driving Back and Street Fair Costume
Fazal Majid's low-intensity weblog
My favorite photo of Sam
Gregory's (gho of dpreview) Photo Lessons
ED Optical Glass
The best Jack-o-Lantern I've seen
Electronic Voting Machine Error
The Revolving Duck blog (recommended by Andy Curtis)
Rolling Stone's review of I 'Heart' Huckabee's
The Babylon 5 Encyclopedia - Bab5 was the best sci-fi on TV - ever.
John Barlow's liberal blog
Pathogen's Livejournal ... blog?
Bizzare incarnation of the Rankings By Page Reads page (opposed to the normal one)
File Magazine - unusual photography
and finally...
Mars Edit - I don't quite get it

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