--Though I'll remind anyone who's purchased eCost's Platinum membership in the last year that shipping for these will be free.  Of course, no taxes.   Clearance Countdown: Sony Studio Monitor Headphones With 50mm Drivers - Black - MDRV900HD  ...

I got some HD650s from eCost a few weeks ago, briefly on discount.  They were just fine: came with a box and everything, and were significantly cheaper than any other source on the web. Share and enjoy.  ...

Go gitchoo yur USDA recommended daily supplement of fine poetry! A Veritable Pharmacopeia of Fine Verse My contribution--the zyzygy-thingee--is enriched with healthful blastoids. 'Guaranteed to put hair on your palms.

Hi! I have just made an Ebay purchase from a seller who will ship to me but who has refused to accept Paypal. I am seeking a member with good feedback would would be willing to accept a Paypal payment and make a Euro transfer to the seller's bank account. I would not only be very grateful for...

Hey, guys. I just got a deal on two mono "commercial power amplifiers," circa 1981. They use the old screw-secured output connectors, which is fine. But I confess that this model has options that I am not confident I know how to correctly set-up. I'm apprehensive that I'm going to damage an amp...

Some things about the season are timeless. The epiphantic mystery that the God would become human and submit to birth in poverty is one. This parody of Tom Waits and Peter Murphy caroling "Christmas Sucks" is, perhaps, another. A Little Holly, A Little Ivy, and a Hunka-hunka-burnin' Wassail...

I'm thick into the last throes of grading end-of-term composition papers. I teach the second stage of English Composition--the one where I'm supposed to take off the training wheels and get everybody to analyze arguments. This is hard for most students. Even the students who are up for it are...

Another current thread has got people lamenting how all the great 'alternative' music movements eventually got reduced to style, appropriated to the great yearning commercial mainstream, and commodified. It got me thinking about when I first started understanding the whole "alternative" meme in...

. . . who would those two musicians or composers be? A group can count as a 'musician/composer'. It can be anybody from the birth of Southern popular standards (Steven Foster), to the inception of recorded Country (the Carter Family), to the most teflon-coated Nashville pop-whore stealing...

Oh, the heartlessness of it all! Quote: Now, had a 98-year-old grandfather reportedly climbed into the same basket and soared into the same skies, the fright would not have been as large. Oh, CNN would have broken from its regularly scheduled programming to cover it and so would have...

I need a microphone for Skype, and perhaps for doing very simple voice recordings. I've got an old E-MU pci souncard set that is working (I figured out Patchmix finally). At the moment I'm outputting to my M^3 amp via the daughter card's 2x 1/4" mono analogue outs. I'm looking for a mic...

Here's the Observer review. Heeeh--it's not cynical kitch if you're doing for charity, man! **[In C#] Weeek-waah-waah-wonk!** Yeeah, man, I know what you're thinkin'. "Bob, you don't look like no Santee Claus." Well, I'm just lettin' you know, it's Christmas on the Inside, and thet's...

-And shouter-out to everybody who writes and performs poetry! -And shoutest-out-of-all to everybody who not only writes and performs her/his poetry but who reads other people's poems!!! Who are yez? Who are you reading? What are you writing? Inquiring minds want to know.

Link That's what happens to woodland creatures who don't return rented costumes. SCOTUS Justice Scalia commented that this "obivious reference to Leoncavallo's Paggliachi" was "spirited," but still not as impressive as a bullfight or the sacrament of Holy Orders.

All these threads about band lineups have got me thinking similar but slightly more existential imponderables. So is it or or Yeah, I know. Easy question, Duran Duran would kick both their asses. But I mean seriously if you got to tag-team with Superman, don't you...

Cheap as chips? What will you do with your $29.99 (or roughly four hours of post-tax campus employment drudgery)? --Two tickets at the Cineplex to see Jennifer's Body! --Fritos for the entire frat house! --Downpayment on ground-effects for your Kia! --One month's access to unlimited pirate...

Curiosity, Cats, Death I identify myself with what is sometimes declaimed as "the evidence-based community," but I know history well enough to recognize that our present unbounded enthusiasms for progress, discovery, scientific advancement, and the right "to go where no man has gone before"...

Here's the short version: _The Ruminant Band_ is a solid album and an adventurous one--not a calculated chart-runner, not a cautious follow-up. If you hear the singles on XFM or iTunes, and you like them, then you'll get the album, and you'll like it. If it sounds overfamiliar or pretentiously...

Classic Polish Cinema Promotional Posters Where's Shelly Duvall when you need to get that Eskimo Pie!

We've come close to reaching consensus, but the Deathmobile has not yet reached ramming speed. I invite you to ponder this imponderable: or Tell us how you really feel.

Well worth listening to. I've rededicated myself to getting the web-monkeys of The Motley Fool and Gamespot Forums to author The Sound and the Fury. Cory Arcangel's re-creation of Arnold Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces, op. 11, edited from YouTube's sub-culture of piano-playing cats. All 170...

Sticky Wickets It's the jolliest, most effervescent lp of a melancholic, depressive, world-recessive summer. It's an earnest homage to The Village Green Preservation Society. It's one part ELO, one part Beach Boys, one part "Wichita Lineman." It's fin de siecle, bravely observing the twilight...

My delightful girlfriend convinced me to put a bunch of items up on Etsy. She's a very talented collage artist, and I have a raft of old knickknacks that won't go on Ebay. But I must say that Etsy's an interesting place with a nice design ethos and plenty of well-healed web-savvy buyers scooting...

Athletic, Compliant, Smiling One sleeps in the bed and has cold feet. One gets a treat when he's good and the rolled-up newspaper when he's bad.

In Shocking Technicolor I was a little entertained and a little informed. However, it does indeed attest to the risks parents take when they don't provide their attention-deficit-disordered kids with adequate doses of Ritalin. Your kids may ** A. grow up to be seminal punk rockers. B...