Gov. Sarah Palin to appear in latest edition of Governors Gone Wild.

Palin was proud to represent the Great State of Alaska in the latest edition of the popular, and often tawdry series in which participants expose much more than their political views.

Palin downplayed the notion that the publicity would be good for her political career.

Palin is alleged to have undergone lasik eye surgery for the shoot, but upon arrival in Albuquerque, photographers preferred to show her with the much more VP-ish look of glasses and pant-suits.

Said Palin, "Well, I'm gonna be a grammie soon, so I figurd I better seize this chance to, yah knuw, flaunt it, while I gadt idt".

Palin descended into the lower 48, mistakenly believing she needed a passport to board the second leg of her Junea-Seattle, Seattle-Albuquerque flight itinerary.

"Yah, I was kinda glad I got that passport a few years ago, you know, so I could go to Mexico, but turns out I didn't need it."

Palin does look forward to deflowering her passport in the near future. "Oh well, next year, I plan to go to Cancun with my kids for Spring Break. I may have one of those Mai-Tai's, but I'll be sure that my daughter sticks to the Virgin stuff."

In a shot sure to excite the subsistence crowd in Alaska, Palin is shown skinning a dead moose wearing only polar-bear skin boots. In a surrealist-inspired photo for the shoot, Palin is rumored to have put lipstick on a bulldog, but that bulldog was she.

Palin hopes that the release of the video will take attention away from the recently released YouTube video wherein she is seen yelling Christian expletives and waving a hockey stick at environmentalists protesting outside the governor's mansion.

Critics also seem to think that the timely release of the video is intended to distract the American public away from her disconcerting lack of knowledge in foreign and domestic affairs outside Alaska.

Responding to these attacks, Palin asked reporters, "What's the difference between Iran and Iraq?" after several minutes of stunned silence, Palin revealed, " 'Q', I bet you thought I was gonna say Lipstick, didn't ya".

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Bon Iver Re: Stacks

According to interviews, etc, this song is about getting over something (someone), but carrying with you part of them, or part of the experience. It's a magnificent song.

My Morning Jacket - Golden

Jeff Buckley "Last Goodbye"

You'll have to click on this link.

A Song that needs no video.

Jeff Buckley singing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.

Hot Chip Boy From School - alternate version

can't embed the original, so check it out yourself. Fuckin EMI.... on second thought, this version is fabulous and terrific, and really good.

Muscles II - the original

Cool 'un official' video. Compare song with piano version below. Awesome song.

Hey Muscles...

Dylan covering Dylan

Wherever I found this, someone wrote that this was Dylan at the height of his powers. The beard, the look, the music...I'll agree.

Townes Van Zandt

In defense of the NBA one year rule...

In response to this article, among many others, I respond thus:

First off, I'm not invested in college basketball at all. In fact I
think it is unscrupulous for coaches to try to get these so called "one
and done" players, and for Athletic Directors to reward coaches for
doing it. IU might be a good example (actually the one and done coach,
who probably now has a better job!)?

What I find interesting is how many sports journalists criticize the
NBA for doing something that looks to be in the NBA's best interests. Look at the
Chicago Bulls - they got nothing on their investment in Tyson Chandler
and Eddie Curry who were drafted out of high school, but now they are serviceable pros...for other teams.

If the NBA is better than college at developing players, someone should
do the research (maybe I will when I finish my dissertation) - but it
seems like it takes time - Chandler, Curry, and lets not forget
Jermaine Oneal are more common than Kobe Bryant and Lebron James, and the way contracts are structured, these guys leave by the time they are useful.

Is college the best place for these athletes? that's complicated.
perhaps the NBA should house them in the NBDL, or retain the rights to
draftees throughout college (NCAA presidents allow it in baseball, no?)

I am generally pro-labor, but I don't think it is anybody's RIGHT to
sign a multi-million dollar deal out of High School (good for those who
do). First of all, why should they have to finish high school. Seems pretty arbitrary to me. Can't you work full time at the age of 16?

Second, where is the outcry for talented college juniors who can't work at
Goldman Sachs b/c they are 6 credits shy of getting their degree from
Yale and wind up taking sailing and badminton to fill out the graduation requirements?

Perhaps only high schoolers should be allowed to be drafted in the
first five picks (call it the Lebron Oden rule), and freshmen (one and
dones) in the first round.

I really don't get the 'common sense' wisdom of lambasting the NBA for looking after their investment and trying to reduce risk. I'm more amenable to criticizing the NCAA's hypocrisy - there is a career full of material to write about...

Watching election results

Impressive 'musicians'...

Bon Iver (good winter in non-standard French?)

Iron and Wine - Boy with a Coin

Modest Mouse...another great song/video

Ozzy Osbourne 2.0?

No, it's Band of Horses.