I can't think of a better man for the job than Lloyd Dobler. Can you?

 

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Erasing Clouds is working on a project in which 100 musicians will answer the same 10 questions. The first 10 are already online.

Check it out here.

My favorite query is the last one, what's the saddest song you've ever heard? If I were a musician (and anyone who's ever heard me sing in the car would agree I am not), my current pick for saddest song would have to be Anna Nalick's "Breathe (2 a.m.)." It is quite sad in and of itself, but I also associate it with a very sad event in my life.

What about you folks in the peanut gallery?

At the risk of adding to the reputation of scientists as killjoys, those of you curious about how ridiculous or realistic Superman's powers are might want to check out Science of Superman.

It ponders this interesting question: Superman's powers came about because Krypton had higher gravity than Earth, so how big was Krypton to create enough gravity to provide Superman's strength?

The answer, although I encourage you to check how they figure it out, is 3,000 times the mass of the sun - which is, alas, impossible, since at that mass, Krypton would have collapsed into a black hole long before life evolved. As I said, killjoys ....

It's a bird, it's a plane ...

It's 40 things you don't know about Superman.

Like, he used to look way more like Dr. Evil.

 

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Science is always one step ahead of us, bringing us inventions to make our lives just a little bit better, like this cookie-dunking machine.

Somebody pass me the milk.

I have been a movie-watching maniac the last several weeks. I have always loved sitting in the darkened theater, the decadence of the buttered popcorn, usually served in a tub big enough to swim in and even jockeying for the armrest with the person next to me.

I caught the weekend box-office winner, Click, on Saturday, as well as the smaller film, The Great New Wonderful, on Friday.

 

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Sometimes even I am left speechless. (I know, it's hard to imagine.) 

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Is anyone else sick to death of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful"?

It has seriously reached "Macarena" proportions in annoying me.

 

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Dreams can come true! I mourned the day Matt Groening's Futurama, which chronicled the adventures of a hapless pizza boy who stumbled into a cryogenic chamber and awoke hundreds of years into the future, halted production.

 

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Yesterday at The 'Graph, we had an awesome employee barbecue, wherein the departments all mingled, ate hamburgers and hot dogs and engaged in a bit o' tomfoolery in the parking lot. 

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Falling behind our ever-vigilant Lifestyles editor, Deidre Ashe, who ran a similar story a few weeks ago in our Lifestyles page, ABC reports that metrosexuality is out. 

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Screech is in financial trouble, according to a Globe report.

 

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What are you doing this S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night?

Check out the lineup at the concert on the Greeley Park stage on Concord Street:

Memorybox
Far Fetched
Sincerely Yours

The show runs from noon-5 p.m. and is free, but donations will go to the American Red Cross, so don't leave your wallet home. It's for a good cause, man!

Looking to check out the local music scene? Drifters has a great lineup tonight. Check it out:

The Human Flight Committee
The Casual Lean
Too Late The Hero
Our Last Night
And Then There Were None
When Legends Die

But get your tooshies over there. The bands began at 7 p.m.

Taylor Hicks has been named the hottest bachelor in America by People magazine.

 

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