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My guess is that James Scott of the Charleston Post and Courier is being mercilessly taunted at work today. In his story on the Masters protests, he writes:
“Throughout the morning, law enforcement officers stood on the perimeter of the five-acre field. At no point did the protest turn violent, though officers escorted Heywood Jablome away after he held up a sign directly in front of Burk that read “Make me dinner” before shouting ‘Oprah rules.'”

Uday, Saddam’s kid, used a Yahoo Mail account! All this time, you could have dropped him a line at udaysaddamhussein@yahoo.com.
I’m sure Yahoo will be using that in their promotional campaigns: The web-based email of torturers everywhere!

Sniff, sniff…the track listing for the final CD Mix of the Month Club mix is online.

Here’s my story from today’s front page, on the Iraqi leadership’s disappearing act.

I’ll be on TXCN sometime tonight talking about the war and where Saddam Hussein’s cronies are all hiding. (Yep, I figured it all out, from right here at my desk in Dallas.)
My debut as a war analyst will also be on tomorrow’s front page, strangely enough.

Sadness is spending $83.00 on 100 83-cent stamps…then getting home to discover they gave you 100 76-cent stamps instead.

Now that CDMOM is over, there’s time for a little statistical reflection. I made 16 monthly mixes, with a total of 316 songs. Here are the artists who appeared most often:
5 appearances: American Music Club.
4: Clem Snide, Death Cab for Cutie, Sloan, Spoon.
3: Calexico, The Dismemberment Plan, Enon, Luna, Pavement, The Pixies, Velvet Crush.
2: Beulah, Big Star, Blackalicious, Richard Buckner, Built to Spill, Call and Response, The Clash, Evan Dando, Devo, DJ Shadow, Mark Eitzel, The Faint, The Flashing Lights, Ben Folds Five, Freelance Hellraiser, The French Kicks, J Mascis, The Minders, Morphine, Mos Def, New Wet Kojak, David Poe, Quasi, Rainer Maria, The Red Stick Ramblers, Saint Etienne, Sea Ray, Seam, Sebadoh, Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Superchunk, Tahiti 80, Rufus Wainwright, The Weakerthans, X, The Young Fresh Fellows.
Unsurprisingly, that list’s a pretty solid reflection of my tastes. You should buy all their CDs. (Okay, not all — even these giants have produced a few stinkers. But most are great, and all are worth supporting.)

Hold your horses, people — the March CDMOM discs should be in the mail tomorrow. There’s a war going on, ferchrissakes! Doesn’t that give me a little wiggle room?
I can mail them now after spending 30 minutes negotiating with the folks at the post office over whether I should be allowed to buy stamps or not. (They had the stamps I needed, but were unsure whether someone else might need them more than I did later.)

Why don’t the White Stripes just hurry up and endorse Target already? We all know that’s what the red-and-white color scheme has been about all these years.
By the way, that new White Stripes record is going to blow up. I swung by Tower to pick up my copy over the weekend and it was the only CD in the player anyone was listening to. Every five minutes I’d look over and someone new would have the headphones on and a copy of Elephant in their hands: a paunchy, fortysomething soccer dad; a dorky 15-year-old trying his damnedest to be cool; an ancient old lady with a bun (seriously).
By the way, sorry for the silence — technical problems.

Big day: Here’s my story from today’s front page on East Dallas Community School, a great Montessori school founded by a bunch of ’60s idealists. It’s the latest installment of the Schools That Work series. (Even if it did suffer some last-minute surgery in order for it to fit in today’s packed A-section.)
And on the cover of the Metro section is the debut of my column, Thinking About Education. (Well, it’s not just my column — three colleagues and I are writing it in rotation.) Those wondering what I look like in real life can pick up today’s paper to see my ugly mug. For some reason, I chose a very nerdy, wonky, numbers-based topic for my first column. Don’t worry, that’ll change — my next one’s about a show on the WB.