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I know I already wrote about Blueberry Boat a few days ago in my “Best Of” list, but Fluxblog today linked to a site with comprehensive reviews of each of the songs, as well as a chronological re-ordering of the tracklist. Clap Clap Blog has taken the time to rearrange the album’s songs according to the era of their narratives, starting in the 16th Century and moving to the present day. And you can download all the songs right from the site.

There’s also a great review and analysis of each of the songs — most recently Mason City, which I used to think was completely indecipherable. For all you ignorant bitches haters out there who think the lyrics are gibberish and the music uninspired and simple, read the musical analysis at Clap Clap before you tell me again how great the new U2 album is.

And speaking of trite, hackneyed entertainment, pop-culture gossip site Defamer has a couple of links to hilariously scathing movie reviews, past and present. Anthony Lane reviews the new Phantom of the Opera in the latest New Yorker, and the NY Press eviscerates that poor movie Sphere.

And now in unrelated news… Watching TV the other day, L and I landed on this infomercial for the Little Giant Ladder System. It was one of those typical infomercials where an overly excited inventor has to work really hard to get the product to do what it’s supposed to do, and it’s super-obvious that any non-inventor would never be able to get the product to work and it would spend the rest of its days in the garage next to the Chia Pets and self-cleaning golf clubs. Anyway, my exciting point is that this little maintenance van pulled up outside my window at work just now and what should it have strapped to its roof but a Little Giant Ladder System ladder? Nothing. Nothing but a Little Giant Ladder System ladder. And another ladder of indeterminate make and model. And also a big PVC pipe with, like, duct tape on the ends.

Man, I said this was exciting.