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Tom Tom Club To Play Irving Plaza

Talking Heads offshoot Tom Tom Club will play NYC’s Irving Plaza on January 12th. I’m rather excited about this as I’ve never seen them live. It’s OK, I’ve overstood! Here’s a great acoustic mini-concert the band did for NPR this fall.

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WTF? OMG, LOL

The CIA has launched a new task force to investigate WikiLeaks. The group will scour the released documents to survey damage caused by the disclosures. One of the most embarrassing revelations was that the US state department had drawn up a list of information it would like on key UN figures – it later emerged the CIA had asked for …

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GERMANY: 2010 Pop Music Mashup

While we await DJ Earworm’s annual pop mashup, here’s a similar entry (and DJ Earworm tribute) out of Germany. And thanks to a week of listening to pop radio in Key West, I’m now actually familiar with most the songs here.

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Morning View – Upper East Side

I think I was on one of the last planes allowed to land at JFK yesterday during the blizzard. Travel tip: You really don’t want to be on flights that end with applause for the pilot. Anyway, this morning I sent my relief cat-sitter Edward out into the mess for a few photos. At this writing, everything on my block …

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Jimmy Carter: Best Former President Ever

Jimmy Carter’s two-decade battle against a global pest in approaching victory. This fight against the guinea worm is a battle former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has waged for more than two decades in some of the poorest countries on earth. It is a battle he’s almost won. In the 1950s the 3-foot-long guinea worm ravaged the bodies of an estimated …

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