I was completely surprised by what Erik Prince looked like; I thought he'd look more like some fellow with big, bulky broad shoulders in an expensive suit specifically tailored for huge pecs-o-iron. This dude looks like an insurance agent.

On the other hand, it must be said he can probably surgically remove my heart with a playing card, rip it from my chest, and show it to me as I died.

Matt, Radiohead's new album will initially be available only as a digital download. You can also pre-order a set with vinyl, CD, and a bonus CD that will be available in December. Its price is not negotiable. I got this information over at this informative blog.

And I got mine from the New York Times. Have fun with your copy!

I have to start my day every day with a happy YTMND. Today's was this http://nougat.ytmnd.com/

Matt, then you missed the part in the Times blog when they said "the band would sell its new album, at least initially, exclusively as a digital download" (emphasis mine). And while I might buy the CD later, I have no need for $80 of vinyl and bonus stuff. We racists are cheap like that.

" I might buy the CD later, I have no need for $80 of vinyl and bonus stuff. We racists are cheap like that."

Damn Matt, lately you couldn’t catch a break even if your name was DJ Kool Herc…. OH! And yes, I cracked myself up with that comment.

Perhaps Mr. Prince is just a fan of the Doobie Brothers.

As for Radiohead...am I missing what this argument is about? Who cares if they release it for free or not?

Daaaaave: Portland as a whole is currently responding to me like a child. Because it is incapable of expressing itself with sincere, adult emotions.

Hence resorting to sarcasm, and occasionally, basic, bizarre, temper-tantrum attacks. I have absolutely no idea why toDD is being so vehement, but I'm absolutely sure he's from Portland.

It's because you are a *HACK* Davis. Pretty pure and simple.

toDD is just highlighting this well-known fact and you are responding to him just like an O-reilly or Hannity would.

It's actually pretty funny to see you comment and post now... so ripe with idiocy. How emabrrassing, it must be for you.

Even at the Merc, I hear the groans at your blathering are getting louder.

Spell it with me davey-boy, H-A-C-K.
Good, now run along.

So just by bringing up alternative views he's a hack?! I don't agree.... Keep up the good work Matt.

Matt, I can't believe the same guy who drags off-hand references to "twats", masturbation, and porn into his "news" items is now complaining that "Portland as a whole" can't communicate to him with "sincere, adult emotions". Give me a break.

All I did was point out that your information was wrong. Yes, I snarkily noted that your own co-workers had gotten the info correct, but most of what I wrote was just facts. You then responded in the same flippant tone you usually bandy about. Why not just say you got it wrong, or let the correction stand?

I don't completely agree with I-Heart_Davis, by the way. Occasionally, you're a good journalist, writing things that really need to be said. But frustratingly, you also love to churn the toilet, and I'm not sure you can tell the difference between the two.

I wouldn't care if you never wanted to be taken seriously, playing the devil-may-care plier of irony all the time. But instead you go from stupid name-calling (implying cops are pigs, say), to writing serious stories (say, about police oversight or Clean and Safe). Or you raise valid questions about attitudes towards the suburbs, and then resort to poorly informed broad smears to back them up. Same with the Interstate renaming.

And then, once the people you've smeared turn it back on you, you play the "poor little ol' me" card: "Why are you people being so mean? I only said you're provincial, elitist, racist idiots! And only an outsider like me can see that!"

Well, guess what? I'm an outsider, too! I know it'll crush your fragile spirits to hear me correct yet another baseless assumption of yours, but there it is. I lived the first 20 years of my life in Texas. Not that I imagine you'll care, since you're from a much more impressive outside place, a land of hope and glory where those feet in ancient time did walk.

Well, as they say over there, stop whinging. Isn't all this "vehemence" what you want?

How long did it take you to type all that, tODD? Were you listening to Radiohead at the time?

Well obviously it took me the 50 minutes since I-Heart_Davis posted. I would've typed faster, but it's hard to spell-check properly when your vision is clouded by tears. And racism.

And duh, I was listening to RaHoWa. (Please don't ask me how long it took me to Google that one -- it's embarrassing.)

Wow. They'd be a kitsch quality to them really, really meaning it, if it weren't so fucking wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaHoWa

Category: SAT Questions

answer: Matt davis calls someone a pretentious twat.

question: what is when the pot calls the kettle black?

Completely off topic now, but if you think RaHoWa's existence is amusing, have you heard of Mayhem?

"Self-parody" doesn't do their story justice.

Tangent, you say? I'll follow you!

Mayhem is amazing. One dude killed and ate another dude after arguing over which dude was more evil.

I guess we can all see who won that debate, huh!*

*It was the dude who ate the other dude. He won.

Actually, Beaton (@17), the Wikipedia article (I know, I know) I linked to places most of your story under "urban legend". There does appear to have been at least one suicide and murder within the band, and possibly a necklace made out of a dead band member's skull fragments, though. Good times.

What does "(@17)" mean? I don't get that.

It means he's referring to comment #17.

The guy ate the other guy's brain?!

It means he's referring to comment #17.

(I realized that as soon as I hit POST.)