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The Devil You Know

Stream o’ consciousness…

In me, Me, ME! on December 31, 2008

15 entries for December 31st:

	12:08am	Mike is ready for a cocktail or seven; some dinner; and some rawk.
	12:36am	Scrobbled 37 songs on Last.fm. (Show Details) Ben Folds – The Last Polka Bob Dylan – The Man in Me Bobby Bare – Singin’ in the Kitchen Chuck Leavell – Lotta Colada Elecrtric Light Orchestra – Last Train To London Gogol Bordello – 60 Revolutions Gogol Bordello – Alcohol Gogol Bordello – Copycat Gogol Bordello – East Infection Gogol Bordello – Immigrant Punk Gogol Bordello – J.U.F. Dub Gogol Bordello – Nomadic Chronicle Gogol Bordello – Not a Crime Gogol Bordello – Panic So Charming (What The Fuck Style) Gogol Bordello – Passport Gogol Bordello – Roumania Gogol Bordello – Think Locally Fuck Globally Gogol Bordello – Undestructable Gogol Bordello – Wonderlust King Gogol Bordello – Zina-Marina Nashville Pussy – Somebody Shoot Me NeffList – Miss Meri by Two Gallants Old 97′s – My Two Feet Old 97′s – Ride Old 97′s – She Loves Sunset Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd – Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7) Social Distortion – Pretty In Pink Squirrel Nut Zippers – Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter Supersuckers – Must’ve Been High The Beatles – 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 – Something The Brian Setzer Orchestra – 1812 Overdrive The Cynics – Waste Of Time The Fleshtones – Let’s See the Sun The Lyres – Buried Alive The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Radio Ga-Ga Wilco – Outta Mind – Outta Sight
	12:36am	STUFF JOURNALISTS LIKE
	5:59am	Stream o’ consciousness…
	5:59am	Stream o’ consciousness…
	6:38am	Mike loves his crazy wiffles. There. I said it.
	6:40am	Mike has a timebomb in his mind, mom.
	6:54am	Boondoggling the Inauguration
	2:41pm	"Huffington Post’s model of journalism isn’t really that radical"
	3:04pm	We have audio!
	3:27pm	N.C. governor says newspapers’ job "is to be nice to me"
	4:28pm	The return of the pop-up ad (when will they ever learn?)
	5:02pm	Scrobbled 11 songs on Last.fm. (Show Details) Eastwood – Breathe Eastwood – Giving Up, Giving In Eastwood – Lawman’s Curse Eastwood – Let Me Be Your Man Eastwood – Natalie Eastwood – Not Too Late Eastwood – Only Remember The Good Times Eastwood – Right Place Wrong Time Eastwood – They’ll Never Take Me Alive Old 97′s – Early Morning Old 97′s – The Easy Way
	6:48pm	Why media companies are hosed
	10:16pm	Presses stopped

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