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... on vacation!!! I'll be gone until August 3, so until then, you'll have to get your musical randomness elsewhere. I've been trying to cajole my coworkers into updating while I'm gone, but it doesn't look good. So there's that. I was going to center this post around Chantal Kreviazuk's cover of "Leaving on a Jet Plane," as featured in "Armageddon" and the trailer for "The Terminal," but as I played the video, I realized that I hate her version (In my head, she sounds a lot more like [...]

... with a box of Theraflu. We're deliriously happy together. Well, we're delirious, anyway. But so my planned V-Day post is a little delayed. Here's something. I'm kind of sick of the Valentine's Day backlash. I am by no means a fan of the holiday; I don't really think we need to devote a whole day to celebrating people in couples by buying each other stuff. But it seems that retailers have caught on to the fact that chocolate and roses and expensive jewelry are not the stuff everyone's VD dreams are made [...]