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For the Yeti in your life... This advertising site for the Phillips Body Shaver was good for a few laughs this morning. The more you poke around the more silly things you find. We especially liked the music video.

I just found out today through a post on Bong, the Depeche Mode mailing list that I belong to, that one of my favorite radio stations, WLIR in Long Island, NY, is back in business. They have been the best alternative radio station in the area. Well, quite frankly, so all practical purposes they were the only alternative station, in terms of New Wave electronic type music. When I attended college and was in the laundry room flipping around the dial and came across "Major Tom (I'm Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling and I was hooked. I luckily lived on the correct side of the dorm for reception. I've never seen a station with such fickle reception before. Violator came out a year later and I really got to enjoy the full Mode treatment. To this day I still can't hear "Dangerous" without hearing the Shriek of the Week embedded in it in multiple places. I wouldn't be quite the Depeche Mode fan that I am if it wasn't for that station. In any case, you can listen to their broadcast - it's streamed over the Internet if you are not lucky enough to get it by you. I tried driving around town at lunchtime today and experienced the same crappy reception that I am used to with LIR, but I had a moment of radio clarity in the driveway so maybe, if I'm lucky, might get some semblance of reception at home. Wish me luck.

OK, I was reading the NY Times Style e-mail that I received this evening (haw, since you all know just how style conscious I am, ha ha ha!) and I had to share with you this article: Black toilet paper? I love this summary/tagline from the article: "'You'd think, wow, black toilet paper. Am I really going to use this?' Good question. If black is the new black, again, should its influence extend to toilet paper? Can toilet paper make it as an object of design, a touchstone of chic? More important, should it?" These are the pressing issues of today brought to us by the Times. Not what I expected to read today!
Photo: Lars Klove for The New York Times