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		<title>Nude Furniture, Downed Websites, Ken Ober, USB Beatles, Jerry Fuchs and Another Philly Demolition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Distractions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://usedwigs.com/distractions-111709/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="75" height="75" src="http://usedwigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/beatles_USB-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="beatles_USB" title="beatles_USB" /></a>Body Movin&#8217; Body Body Movin! Dave Hill and his Valley Lodge have fleshed out a nice video for their classic cut &#8220;All of My Loving.&#8221; Conan and Andy Visit: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis. Outstanding as always. Sales Guy vs Web Dude: I&#8217;m a bit late to the game on this viral vid, funny [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Body Movin&#8217; Body Body Movin! </strong>Dave Hill and his<strong> </strong><a  href="http://vimeo.com/7581382" target="_blank">Valley Lodge</a> have fleshed out a nice video for their classic cut &#8220;All of My Loving.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Conan and Andy Visit: </strong> <a  href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/03b4a86265/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis" target="_blank">Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.</a> Outstanding as always.<a  href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/03b4a86265/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis" target="_blank"><br />
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<p><strong>Sales Guy vs Web Dude: </strong>I&#8217;m a bit late to the game on this viral vid, funny stuff for anyone involved in tech, tech support, web or even you dummies in the sales department: <a  href="http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/salesguy.html" target="_blank">The Website is Down</a>. Episode one is my fave. (link via <a  href="http://twitter.com/mleis" target="_blank">@mleis</a>)</p>
<p><strong>Ken Ober:</strong> &#8220;Kenny wasn&#8217;t like the other kids/ TV mattered, nothing else did/Girls said yes, but he said no/Now he&#8217;s got his own game show&#8230; Remote Control!&#8221; Thanks for bringing an insane amount of trivial fun to my obsessive video- and game show- watching teen years with <a  href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33NPEYpVaxI&#038;feature=related" target="_blank">Remote Control</a>. Ken Ober, you were a good man. A funny man.</p>
<p align="center"><a  href="http://www.amazon.com/Beatles-USB/dp/B002VH7P4O" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenternoframe" title="beatles_USB" src="http://usedwigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/beatles_USB.jpg" alt="beatles_USB" width="307" height="181" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Expensive Gift Idea: Beatles USB Drive!</strong> This high-tech piece of fruit will set you back about <a  href="http://www.amazon.com/Beatles-USB/dp/B002VH7P4O" target="_blank">$240</a>, a little too pricey to be mentioned in our <a  href="http://www.amazon.com/Beatles-USB/dp/B002VH7P4O" target="_blank">Popular and Affordable Gift Guide</a>, but if you have a Beatles nerd in your life who deserves something cool, have at it. The deets:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The exquisitely crafted, <a  href="http://www.amazon.com/Beatles-USB/dp/B002VH7P4O" target="_blank">apple-shaped USB drive</a> is loaded with the critically acclaimed re-mastered audio for The Beatles&#8217; 14 stereo titles, as well as all of the re-mastered CDs visual elements, including 13 mini-documentary films about the studio albums, replicated original UK album art, rare photos and expanded liner notes.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Edward Woodward</strong> &#8211; TV&#8217;s <a  href="http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Equalizer_Season_1/70085228" target="_blank">The Equalizer</a> (a totally bad-ass show) has passed away. <a  href="http://www.edgarwrighthere.com/2009/11/edward-woodward-1930-2009/" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s a nice tribute</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Timber! </strong>The Death Of The Drexel Shaft:</p>
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<p><strong>Chris Knows A-Holes! </strong>Our pal <a  href="http://chrisilluminati.com/" target="_blank">Chris Illuminati</a> is the coauthor of <a  href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598699105?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thisisillu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1598699105" target="_blank">The Assholeology: The Science Behind Getting Your Way &#8211; and Getting Away with it</a><img style="border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thisisillu-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1598699105" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" />. It will be out January, 2010. Buy it, so he&#8217;ll write another one and stop tweeting so much.</p>
<p><strong>Fuck NPR!</strong> Give your dough to WFMU for a change. (They never depress the hell out of you.) Join <a  href="http://twitter.com/scharpling" target="_blank">Scharpling</a> and <a  href="http://twitter.com/jonwurster" target="_blank">Wurster </a>Tuesday night (11/17) for the <a  href="https://www.wfmu.org/marathon/tch.shtml#pr50">24-Hour Fall Marathon</a>! Always excellent swag with each donation. <a  href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/BS" target="_blank">The Best Show</a> starts at 8:oopm EST.</p>
<p><strong>Jerry Fuchs Tributes:</strong> In case you missed it last week, WPRB&#8217;s Jon Solomon produced a lovely <a  href="http://keepingscoreathome.com/?p=634" target="_blank">tribute show to Jerry Fuchs</a> who died tragically on November 8th. Dave McGurgan penned a really nice piece about <a  href="http://www.phillyburbs.com/opinions/blog_post/article/418/2009/november/09/jerry-fuchs-appreciation-of-a-dynamic-drummer.html" target="_blank">Fuchs amazing drumming style</a> and Henry Owings remembers his dear friend on <a  href="http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&#038;ID=571" target="_blank">Chunklet</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Jerry is survived by an impressive canon of records on which he&#8217;s performed, countless mouth-agape audiences in awe of his work, dozens of heart-crushed former bandmates, and an endless parade of true friends around the world. Jerry, your influence was profound and far-reaching. <a  href="http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&#038;ID=571" target="_blank">More</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>BTW, Jon Solomon will be our next guest on <a  href="http://usedwigs.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">UsedWigs Radio</a>.</p>
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		<title>Nice Shout for UsedWigs, Creative Staircases, New Super Music Blog and Deer + Rabbit = BFF</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://usedwigs.com/creative-staircases/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="75" src="http://cubeme.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/floating-stairs-the-gray-hotel-milan-florence-architect-guido-ciomp1.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="" /></a>Hooray for Us! Thanks to PhillyBurbs and Chris Illuminati for naming UsedWigs one of &#8220;Ten Best Philadelphia Websites.&#8221; FYI, we won a year&#8217;s supply of butter (salted I hope, adding your own is time consuming). Since we&#8217;re in the midst of our own horn tooting and talkin&#8217; PhillyBurbs, here&#8217;s a fun little interview we did [...]]]></description>
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<p><span class="entry-content"><strong>Hooray for Us! </strong>Thanks to <a  href="http://www.phillyburbs.com/10/illweb.shtml" target="_blank">PhillyBurbs</a> and </span><span class="tsArticleByline">Chris Illuminati </span><span class="entry-content">for naming UsedWigs one of <a  href="http://www.phillyburbs.com/10/illweb.shtml" target="_blank">&#8220;Ten Best Philadelphia Websites.&#8221;</a> </span><span class="entry-content">FYI, we won a year&#8217;s supply of butter (salted I hope, adding your own is time consuming). </span><span class="entry-content">Since we&#8217;re in the midst of our own horn tooting and talkin&#8217; PhillyBurbs, here&#8217;s <a  href="http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/83-03102008-1501217.html" target="_blank">a fun little interview</a> we did with Dave McGurgan a few months back. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.phillyburbs.com/10/illweb.shtml" target="_blank"> </a></p>
<p><strong>Creative Staircase Design:</strong> <a  href="http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2008/11/22/unusual-and-creative-staircase-designs/" target="_blank">Cool? Yes, very.</a> Practical? Um, maybe, unless you have little kids, old people or drunk relatives needing to access different floors of your house.</p>
<p><strong>Music Blog Guys Unite!</strong> 5 of the top indie music bloggers in the Western Hemisphere have banded together in matching skin-tight costumes to fight crime, battle injustice and save the world from imminent&#8230; um wait, no, they just made another blog. It&#8217;s called <a  href="http://www.mbvmusic.com/" target="_blank">MBV</a> and will feature contributions from the masterminds behind Said The Gramophone, Large Hearted Boy, Fluxblog, Chromewaves and Catbirdseat. Why have the they joined forces? Not really sure. But the design is minimal so the content must be stellar. Website: <a  href="http://www.mbvmusic.com/" target="_blank">www.mbvmusic.com.</a></p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a Brimming Cup o&#8217; Cuteness:</strong> <a  href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tanja-askani.de%2Finfo%2F%3Fp%3D18&#038;sl=de&#038;tl=en&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">An orphaned deer and a wild rabbit quickly become best friends</a>. [via <a  href="http://www.metafilter.com/" target="_blank">metafilter</a>]</p>
<p><a  href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tanja-askani.de%2Finfo%2F%3Fp%3D18&#038;sl=de&#038;tl=en&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank"><img class="imageCenter" src="http://tanja-askani.de/daten/foto_rehkaninchen3.jpg" alt="" width="438" /></a></p>
<p><strong>State of &#8220;The State&#8221;:</strong> Funnyman <a  href="http://www.myspace.com/bigflux" target="_blank">Kevin Allison</a> brings us good tidings about his old beloved comedy troupe:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The State is doing a special for Comedy Central in 2009, and we&#8217;re finally releasing the box-set of our MTV series in the spring. <a  href="http://www.theapiary.org/archives/2008/11/inside_with_kev_1.html" target="_blank">More&gt;</a>&#8220;</p>
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<p><strong>Download This:</strong> I just discovered <a  href="http://www.issueoriented.com/news/ep-38-now-live-tom-gabel-freddy-cricien-let-me-run/" target="_blank">Issue Oriented</a>, an excellent podcast featuring &#8220;Punk, hardcore, indie, metal and beyond.&#8221; The latest show features Tom Gabel of Against Me! Very cool.</p>
<p><strong>Cool Gift:</strong> This cool <a  href="http://www.brookstone.com/shop/product.asp?product_code=586800&#038;cm_ven=Compare&#038;cm_cat=ChannelAdvisor&#038;cm_pla=Gifts&#038;cm_ite=datafeed" target="_blank">little laptop desk</a> will provide comfort for your internetting and cushioning for your boners.</p>
<p><strong>Sad to Report:</strong> Philly-area writer and video producer Brian Hickey (City Paper, Philly Weekly) was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver this past Friday night. He&#8217;s a good guy and talented writer, keep him in your thoughts, <a  href="http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/clog/2008/12/01/brian-hickey-update-dec-1-1-pm/" target="_blank">here&#8217;s the latest from City Paper</a> and more from <a  href="http://www.philebrity.com/2008/12/01/confidential-to-brian-hickey-give-em-hell/" target="_blank">Philebrity</a>.</p>
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		<title>Craig Robinson in Philly!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a  href="http://www.heliumcomedy.com/"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2196" title="craig robinson" src="http://usedwigs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/craigrobinsonfinal-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a>When it comes to sitcoms, no one says so much by saying so little as the taciturn warehouse manager Darryl on &#8220;The Office.&#8221;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;Can&#8217;t you see I&#8217;m busy, Michael?&#8221;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;I taught Mike a few phrases to help him with his &#8216;interracial&#8217; conversations. You know like &#8216;fleece it out,&#8217; &#8216;going Mach 5,&#8217; &#8216;dinkinflicka.&#8217; You know, things us Negroes say.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;Mike, you&#8217;re a very brave man, I mean it takes courage just to be you. To get out of bed every single day knowing full well you gotta be you.&#8221;</p>
<p>Darryl is portrayed with low-key brilliance by actor/comedian Craig Robinson, who is a very busy man of late. In addition to &#8220;The Office,&#8221; he has appeared in some big name comedies (<em>Pineapple Express</em>, <em>Zack and Miri Make a Porno</em>) and does stand-up as well.</p>
<p>He will be at <a  href="http://www.heliumcomedy.com/" target="_blank">Helium Comedy Club</a> in Philly:   11/19/2008 through 11/22/2008.</p>
<p>Our pal Chris at <a  href="http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/blog_index.php/?p=36262&#038;cat=8" target="_blank">PhillyBurbs</a> had a nice with Craig recently. Did you know this?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I actually have a degree in music and a master’s in secondary education. I used to teach music to Kindergarten through 8th grade children.&#8221;</p>
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<p><a  href="http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/blog_index.php/?p=36262&#038;cat=8" target="_blank">Read the whole interview here</a>.</p>
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