If that's not one of the most romantic lines ever committed to music, I don't know what is, and it comes from Josh Ritter's "Kathleen" off his 2003 album "Hello Starling."

What girl in her right mind would not take the passenger seat Josh offers to Kathleen in the song, along with the offer to drive her home?
Maybe [...]

After purchasing the Jim Henson Fantasy Film Collection a few months ago, I finally sat down to watch Mirrormask. I had my doubts initially (if you're sandwiching a movie between Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, chances are it's not strong enough to sell on its own), but all those doubts disappeared as soon as I [...]

One of my favorite German power metal bands is finally playing New Hampshire! Edguy will be performing Sept. 14th at 6 p.m. at Mark's Place in Bedford, along with Canadian metalheads Into Eternity. Whee! Sorry.
For me, a melodic metal song with excellent guitar work, great vocals, and a singable chorus ranks among the finer [...]

Now that the third season of the funniest show currently on TV has come to a close — Jan's boob job? Ryan's promotion? A JAM date, finally??? — what can we possibly talk about this summer?
Oh, sure, there will be the repeats, the "newpeats," etc. And there's a 30-episode season to look forward to, according [...]

This week, a new voice took over Weekend Word on the Encore site. Our intrepid reporting intern, Steve Bodnar, filled in as his swan song here.
Bands featured are Dance Gavin Dance, Doro Pesch, Storyhill and The Gray Davies.
All have gigs in New Hampshire this month and next, although this is the first time the bands [...]

Do all those Japanese signs at Fenway really say what the English speakers who commissioned them think they say? Check it out over at The Boston Phoenix.
In these companies' defense, Japanese is a notoriously difficult language to master. There's three alphabets (kanji, hiragana, and katakana), and numbers change depending on what you're counting - [...]

Largeheartedboy today points out that Hillary Clinton needs a campaign song and is conducting an online poll to choose.
The official nominees are:
"Suddenly I See" by KT Tunstall"I'm a Believer" by Smash Mouth"Get Ready" by the Temptations"Ready to Run" by the Dixie Chicks"Rock Ths Country!" by Shania Twain"Beautiful Day" by U2"Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus [...]

Sandwiched between the "pleaz place my buldogg add" spam and the electronic pleas from senior citizen activist groups out in D.C., I found this little gem of an e-mail petition. For some people, 45 days without Paris isn't enough. They're pushing for 45 years.
 
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Free Paris or Paris-Free Planet?
While Paris supporters have been trying [...]

Chocolate maker Masterfoods says it adds an ingredient containing cow's stomach to its candy bars.
Life without bacon is bleak enough. But life without chocolate, too? I couldn't do it, man.

Leave it to Cracked.com to come up with what is perhaps the most unusual playlist of the year: the 15 best songs entirely about masturbation.
Staffer Kevin Hill gets the ball rolling with one of my favorite ledes of the year: Prostitution may be the oldest profession, but masturbation is the oldest pastime.
The list is [...]