The Long Blondes disc Someone To Drive You Home starts off well but takes a dive around song #3. It gets up off the mat for song #8, but quickly falls back down again.

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My cold has pretty much left my sinuses and moved on to my throat. I’m a pretty hack machine right now. On the plus side I worked from home today (so as not to spread my illness around) and am getting a bunch of stuff done that I just can’t seem to get to in the office.

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I’m not totally sure what to make of the Michael Richards thing. I saw the clip and the apology, and maybe I’m just cynical, but I kinda think this is a stunt. Richards’ career is in the tank. He’s never managed to break out of the “Kramer” stereotype. He looks at Mel Gibson, who got tons of free press over his drunken anti-semitic tirade (and who’s essentially gotten off scot free after doing a pile of apologetic interviews and talk show appearances) and thinks, hey, I can do that. Maybe the guy in the audience was a plant, maybe Richards just seized on the first black person he saw; either way, he knew it would get him attention.

Maybe it really is as Richards says, and it was all just a colossal fuck-up. Either way it’s deplorable. But I can pretty much guarantee you Michael Richards will get a primetime interview and some morning show appearances out of this. In a world where OJ nearly gets on TV talk shows and bookstore shelves saying “If I Did It”, anything is possible.

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