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There are a lot of dumb lists. All started by a dumb movie. Esquire has a dumb list. 175 Things a Man Should Do Before He Dies. It’s dumb.

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Before last night, if I was going to make a list of my all time least favorite musicians, John Mayer definitely would have made the top five... probably third, after Kenny G and Barbra Streisand. Sure the guy's song are terrible, and despite being a massive tool, he seems to bag every hottie in Hollywood as if he were checking them off a list.

Music writer Chuck Klosterman has an article in Esquire titled "Anyone Seen My $4.2 Billion?" that ponders the record industry's sales drop since 1999. It's worth a read.

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  Quote - Esquire certainly wouldn’t be the first magazine to “enhance” its letters page, but I’d like to believe that it’s possible to take the best of a magazine’s mailbag (and web forums) and turn it into something that would work this well in print.

I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this. I’m going to play it straight forward with an occasional aside.

Revision: This is what I’m thinking. 

1. Boxers? Briefs? Boxer briefs? Thongs? Commando?

Boxer briefs

Except in the summer after a shower, love the floppy legged shorts to air dry. 

2. What’s your fussiest personal care routine?

Exfoliate my

Work's dead. I'm going home early tonight.

Of course, there's no Internet there so that makes me sad.

But my incarcerated Georgia (doggie in her crate) will be happy to see me and I can get an early start watching some DVDs that a friend has loaned to me.
SyrianaGood Night, and Good LuckSnatchCrankWith any luck, there will be copies of The New Yorker and Esquire waiting for me in my mailbox to

Sean lays some love on Mr. Edwards Esquire. So true Sean, so true.
 I took it as a dig against Hillary Clinton’s 35 years of “makin’ change,” which seemed to be a number pulled out of her rear. But seriously, “Growing up in mill towns and mill villages, I had to literally fight to survive,”? He [...]

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