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kennedy said:
Weird that Sonic absolutely raped Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
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This just conclusively proves Texas is another country (yes, I'll let them have Oklahoma and Arkansas, too...yuck).
 
McDonald's controls Canada, Mexico, the Great Lakes, the Gulf, and both oceans
 
Sonic is borderline great if you only eat it once in a while I don't know what you fools are talking about.
 
Sonic is great when you're bored and buzzed. It's where everyone in suburban St. Louis goes after high school hockey or football to get in fights and be a general pain in the ass to the public.
 
Kennedy,

Have you ever attempted the Pointersaurus?

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(not me)
 
Never even heard of it. St. Louis pizza, as a general rule, is terrible. One might even question if it can be called "pizza." Only the places that imitate SF, CHI, or NYC are any good. I'll have to check out this "Pointersaurus."
 
It has been discovered that on the extreme left of the fa?ade front of the new [Boston] Public Library building are chiseled in tablets the following names: Moses, Cicero, Kalidasa, Isocrates, Milton, Mozart, Euclid, ?schylus, Dante, Wren, Herrick, Irving, Titian, Erasmus. These names form an acrostic, the first letters spelling the names of the firm of architects which has furnished the plan for the building. A representative of the architects [McKim, Mead and White] says he can assign no reason for it except that it was ?a prank of some of the boys in the office.? Three of these names, Dante, Milton and Titian, appear on the other tablets and in their proper places. This duplication is another proof that the acrostic was intentional.

? The Critic, June 4, 1892

(After a public outcry, the inscription was removed.)
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Other favorites by him are Comin' Up, Driving Me Crazy, and You Girl.
 
Weekly Dig
WE ARE LOATH TO side with Barstool Sports?hell, we hate looking at their website, since there are all these naked ladies on the side banner, and god help you if some intern walks by when you land on a "Guess that ass" post, leaving you no choice but to shout, "THIS IS RESEARCH!"?however, last week presented us with a local internet feud so ass-backwards, we've got to vote in their favor ... sort of.

It started when 22-year-old Sam Adams topped iTunes' most-downloaded hip-hop tracks. This surprised almost everyone who doesn't think beer pong is the American cultural equivalent of tea time. It was a real shock for the Boston hip-hop community, which couldn't believe they'd let this one slip by them, or that some white kid from Cambridge would be the Boston artist who'd win recognition (apparently, they'd blocked out Marky Mark's existence).

The local hip-hop experts at Jump the Turnstyle declared last week "Sam Adams Week," making a lot of recycled jokes about beer and dead founders, before the big reveal: a post claiming many of the iTunes purchases were bought on one credit card (probably Daddy's).

In a stunning turn of events, multiple music industry insiders, including the head of a major independent record label, an employee at iTunes, and an industry source at a major digital distributor (who have all asked to remain anonymous) have confirmed the following allegations to be true; close to 75,000 downloads of Sam Adams iTunes debut were charged to a single credit card. That's right?Sam Adams has used the age-old industry trick of record buy backs to blow up.

The Turnstyle blogger behind the post (known as "Sleezy Trees," no doubt for his love of botany) didn't acquire any proof. He came from the ol' "I heard this rumor ... Did you hear it, too? Great, that's confirmation" school of journalism (an online degree program). It probably helped that Adams, a SOCCER STAR at Trinity, seems like the type who would pay to play (and that guys at Barstool knew who he was first). Trees thought he'd picked up on something no one else had, and he wanted to break the news and draw some credit (and page views) to his site.

Well, he did get attention, but not the kind he wanted. Sam Adams had booked six dates on the Barstoolpalooza college tour before the EP dropped on iTunes. Barstool's owner, Dave Portnoy (aka "elpresidente"), posted an email exchange between himself and an anonymous Turnstyle follower ... in which he came out looking like the bigger douche, even though he was in the right. ("I could fucking care less whether he is good or not. I know I can sell 2,000 tickets in 30 minutes to any show in New England right now.") Barstool's following then flocked to Turnstyle, to do the internet equivalent of stuffing nerds in lockers.

Meanwhile, Trees got his proof ... that the claims he'd published were false?a "3,500 page document" that proved sales' legitimacy. (He also got a cease-and-desist order.) "Why would my trusted industry sources lie?" he asked (in boldface font, for some reason). "They are shook because a kid appeared out of thin air and seemingly overnight blew their whole business model apart."

Several posters unironically commented "VIVA LA STOOL!" without realizing they seemed to be leading the Great Spanish Shit Revolt. Trees had inadvertently drawn more attention to the artist he despises, yet he'd drawn a surge of hater traffic to his own website.

Turnstyle definitely won the pissing contest, however. They've posted items for their new fanbase all week, like:

I hope this will increase our readership amongst dudes who listen to WEEI all day, vote for Scott Brown, and think that Bronson Arroyo is a musical genius. And really, this is just the beginning. On a personal level of branding.. [sic] When I go out (to Fanuiel Hall and other various Irish Pubs to drink my Bud Light) I will only wear blue or white button down shirts (preferably with some sort of mosaic or dragon stitched into it with gold threading).

But by far, the funniest jab came from a commenter known as wite, who wrote a Sam Adams-inspired rap that is pure chart-topping poetry:

i got groupies in the stands, you know how the game go/
juggle with my knees then transition to a rainbow/
pass, kick, score, then i slide on my shin pads/
7 thousand sold out the pouch on my gym bag
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Nah, that's early Allen Jokers that I posted awhile back.

I thought that information came out that proved he didn't buy his own album, but who the hell cares? It's pretty good music. Nothing revolutionary, but he's a 22 year old white kid from Cambridge/Wayland/Trinity - give him a break.
 
If you're a white boy who goes to Trinity it's pretty likely you've gotten enough breaks already.

I mean, did the Weekly Dig article not allege he paid for 75,000 iTunes downloads himself?
 
That's a big bet to place on yourself, no? Even the guy, "Sleazy Trees," that made the allegation rescinded that statement. Apparently after a cease and desist. I don't know, but $75,000 is a lot of money to spend on trying to top the charts, and somehow, I imagine it would take a lot more than 75,000 downloads to make a big enough dent in popularity to the point where it would matter.
 
Can I hate him because he uses auto-tune? This has become something of an unpardonable sin for me.
 
Yes you may. It's not even subtle, that's what irks me about it. He would probably sound alright if he just gave his voice a little work, too.

On a related note, we've had various tangents dedicated to music, be it how Toronto has better techno, how techno is music, how KZ is playing somewhere, and stuff like this. Why don't we have a dedicated music thread? What kind of music do a bunch of architecture nerds listen to, anyhow?

I'm partial to rap, some alternative rock, and (dare I say it) some pop. Kid Cudi, Austin Hartley-Leonard, Spoon, Atmosphere, Jay-Z, MSTRKRFT, Little People, Ratatat, etc.
 
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