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Tonight, a visibly emotional Mark Knopfler performs a song that he wrote with Emmylou Harris after reading a newspaper column by English novelist Ian McEwan a few days after 9/11. Inspired by the phone calls of those who found themselves trapped in the Twin Towers and on United Airlines Flight 93, here’s If This Is Goodbye.
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The worldwide interweb is chock full of hellish Russian dash-cam footage – brawling drunken motorists, spectacularly poor driving, and horrific crashes and near-misses – of the sort that lights up your monkey-brain and makes you feel like you’re gazing into the seventh circle of hell. Tonight, we see a different dash-cam view of Russia, one showing unidentified individuals performing simple acts of common grace.
h/t martywd
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I avoid the profane as a rule, but it’s Saturday night, and this is too much of an amusing one-off not to share: here’s Andy Prieboy’s unsettlingly straight-faced, gentlemanly-sounding ode to the “happy high retardians” who, when when legless and devoid of any common sense, knight themselves the Hearty Drinking Men.
Language warning.
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