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TIL that The Offspring's singer literally has a PhD in molecular biology:

The Weeknd, PJ's fav, bought a 70M house.

That seems like a lot of money and a lot of house for a fat black guy with 2 songs I am aware of. I wouldnt want that much house, you'd have to have employees basically living with you.

nypost.com/2021/08/19/the-weeknd-buys-massive-70-million-la-house/

I wonder if the trampoline was a selling point.

From reading the post that is the impression I get.

Someday I suppose the full story will actually come out.

Their first song that got traction nationally. 

I started listening to the Bosstones when they signed to a major label too, guys. <hf>

Sco would find these references a lil bit ugly, though.

pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7856-a-feature-about-nothing-the-1990s-in-lists/

This article from Pitchfork, "A Feature About Nothing, the 1990s in Lists", is pretty good. Quite a bit of hipster bullshit, but there's some good nostalgia in there too.

The most interesting part is the "correction" at the bottom of page 2:


Well, that got me curious, so I hit archive-dot-org to figure out what the offensive language was. Can you guess?




Because, of course. They also removed all the images, and any picture-only lists that went with them.

(I chose this particular thread, because I also had to look up what the rumor was about Tabitha Soren and Layne Staley. Sore-end indeed.)