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Lukewarm Poop From Dec 10th

How would you assign numbers to the different types of human effluvia? | Ask MetaFilter – “What are some smart, memorable ways of numbering our other discharges: tears, sweat, earwax, saliva, breast milk, etc.?” The 28 Most Recognizable Guitars – … Continue reading

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Lukewarm Poop From Dec 9th

BBC NEWS | Americas | Venezuela creates own time zone – Bananas! wetriffs.com/gallery – “Warning: gallery contains some nudity, guitars.” Look Great Naked at Any Age – Whatever happened to Bobby Martin? Zappa.com – Is Robert Bobby Martin dead or … Continue reading

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Lukewarm Poop From Dec 8th

Jewsrock.org : Take the Quiz – “Some of the following 20 pop idols are Jewish. Some are not. Your job: figure out which are which. “ C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations – New York Times – America the Beautiful History … Continue reading

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Dortmund ’79

If it’s Friday this must be the Friday Boot! We’re off to Germany again: Dortmund, 25 March 1979. The FZ Tape Reviewing Society says: (…) it’s in FZ’s City Of Tiny Lites solo where the show comes to life. This … Continue reading

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A Frank Zappa Street For Amsterdam

Following Berlin’s example comes a Dutch initiative to have a street in Amsterdam named after FZ: Frank Zappa Straat dot nl. Care to give your support? Sign the petition here! Hat tip: Han Zijlstra

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Zappadan

…starts right about now: Yes, we’re calling out to you – you over there with the hair on your head – step on up here and tell us what you can do to contribute to The Festival of Zappadan. Not … Continue reading

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Lukewarm Poop From Dec 1st

The Magic Band play Captain Beefheart in 2008 – “It may be a bit premature for me to mention that more dates are planned, but if I’m wrong you can just say it’s the first time I was happy to … Continue reading

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The Mp3 Encoding Debate: Results Are In

A follow-up to this post: Cognitive Daily yesterday published its rather (un?)surprising results: For both recordings, there was a significant difference between ratings of the 64 kbps sampling rate and the 128 kbps sampling rate, but no difference between ratings … Continue reading

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Montreal ’84

You’ll never guess what I went through this morning, prior to posting this week’s Friday Boot — though you’re free to take a guess. Say what? Oh, on to the boot already. Yes. That’d be Montreal, Canada, November 2nd 1984, … Continue reading

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Lukewarm Poop From November 27th through November 29th

UbuWeb Sound – Edgard Varèse – “Les Mémorables d’Edgard Varèse (French radio broadcasts) “ globalia.net/donlope/ – FZ discography – Back online. You can start breathing again now :-) The Hardest Habit to Break? : idly [dot] org – “Do you … Continue reading

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Special Delivery

This just in, fresh from the Zappa List: My copy of the ZPZ DVD arrived today with TWO disc Twos & NO disc One. Has this happened to anyone else? What would be the best way to contact the ZFT … Continue reading

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Lukewarm Poop From November 26th

Help me compile the ultimate stoner playlist – “I’m looking for songs that sound fabulous while under the influence, not for songs about weed.” Dickipedia – A Wiki of Dicks – Needs more dick. Non-Stick Plans: Doggies – “Trained by … Continue reading

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What’s With The Lukewarm Poop?

An eloquent title if ever I saw one, as you’ll surely agree. Anyway, you may have noticed yesterday’s post which consisted merely of a bunch of links and a bit of light commentary. What’s up with that? Well, every day … Continue reading

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Lukewarm Poop From November 24th

Born Again Democrats – is it a hoax, is it a joke? no, it’s… born again democrats! Google Trends: zappa – Maroual says: The mains events are highlighted with letters. Unfortunately, it seems that the ZFT suing a furniture store … Continue reading

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An mp3 Is An mp3 Is An mp3?

Cognitive Daily is carrying out an online poll to determine just how audible the fluctuation in quality is between mp3’s that have different encodings: I created three different versions of two song clips — 64, 128, and 256 kbps MP3 … Continue reading

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