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As readers well know, I am a little obsessed with this record. It finally comes out next week, but it actually leaked in full last night.

It’s good. It’s not classic GnR, but it is really good.

That said, this review sums it up and I think I agree with almost every word of it.

On the aforementioned “Sorry,” Rose suddenly sings an otherwise innocuous line (”But I don’t want to do it”) in some bizarre, quasi-Transylvanian accent, and I cannot begin to speculate as to why. I mean, one has to assume Axl thought about all of these individual choices a minimum of a thousand times over the past 15 years.

Somewhere in Los Angles, there’s gotta be 400 hours of DAT tape with nothing on it except multiple versions of the “Sorry” vocal.

Found on the interwebs:

1. If you ask me technical questions please don’t argue with me because you don’t like my answer. If you think you know more about the topic, why ask? And if I’m arguing with you…it’s because I am positive that I am correct, otherwise I’d just say “I don’t know” or give you some tips on where to look it up, I don’t have the time to just argue for the sake of it.

2. Starting a conversation by insulting yourself (i.e.

David Thorne didn’t have the $233.95 to pay an overdue account. So he submitted a picture of a spider he drew instead.

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/11/good_idea_man_submits_drawing.php

You know the kids are like, ‘what do you mean we dont get presents? It’s Christmas!’. :)

Another instant classic from the Onion.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA—Kevin Higgins always hated gym class. Like many of his classmates, he questioned the relevance of things like “exercise” and “physical fitness,” and wondered if these skills would ever have any real-world applications. Though he endured more than 720 hours of gym over 12 years, the 38-year-old accounting clerk said Monday that he has still never used physical education once in his life.

“I don’t know why they bothered teaching us all that stuff,” said Higgins, who since graduating has not once encountered in a situation that required him to move his body at a sustained pace or keep himself in healthy shape.

An SNL digital short, with Steve Carell:

The long awaited Guns N’ Roses album is now available for pre-order on iTunes, exclusively.

Pre-order here: Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy

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A good article by John Cole at Balloon Juice:

Reading about the celebrations in Kenya over the election of Obama, I came across this reminder:

Mr Obama’s victory is being celebrated across the continent.

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said it showed “that for people of colour, the sky is the limit”.

The BBC’s world affairs correspondent Adam Mynott says Mr Obama will inherit a foreign policy legacy in Africa that has been one of the high points of the George Bush administration.

Earlier this year President Bush toured through five African nations and people greeted him in their thousands to applaud him for America’s huge contribution in the fight against HIV/Aids.

Since its launch five years ago, his Aids relief programme has spent more than $15bn dollars (£9.5bn) on the continent and saved many thousands of lives.

Actually, she put aside all the ideological bullshit and spoke as an American:

I wonder if she’ll get bashed like Powell did?