Missing Thing Uno: Bostonese 101
If you’re a Masshole, take a second and say “Honda Accord in winter time” out loud to your self. You can whisper so that no one will know. Go ahead. Do it now.

While driving today, I realized that when we say the aforementioned phrase, our superbly crafted accents speedily streamline the phrase into “Honder Accoahd in winnuh time.” I believe the addition of the “R” and dropping of the “T” has nothing to do with comfort and everything to do with speed. One day, I’ll attempt to write down all the rules to the accent, but not right now, as the whole processes has already locked up my processor for a good 15 minutes.

Missing Thing Deux: Free MP3s
Thanks to stupid BoingBoing, I came across OddioOverplay.com, a major source of public domain MP3′s. I have spent hours jumping from link to link finding the oddest legal, free MP3′s out there.

When I was younger, my friends and I would spend inordinate amounts of time searching through flea market boxes and garage sale basements for the strangest music that we could find (like Lucille). Then, we’d carry a stack to each other’s apartments and spend full evenings just showcasing our finds. And there in lies the catch: Getting something for nothing involves a tremendous amount of leg work, but it’s the leg work itself that discourages most people from the search, making the rewards so much more rare.

I mean did you listen to the Wynnona Riders (from yesterday’s list), BratMobile, the Mr. T. Experience, Propaghandi, a full version of the “Shaft in Africa” soundtrack, a song called “Naughty Hula Hands,” George Bush singing U2, or a version of Mr. Pudding Pop himself, Bill Cosby, singing “Funky North Philly”? No, probably not. While I was running around as excitedly like a coke head with a key to the evidence room, you were probably doing something useful with your time. Weren’t you?

If anyone wants play the stripped down 2004 version of weirdo mix tape, find me your best legal, digital oddities and fire me the links or burn me the CD. I’m game.

Out of the Hundreds of sites that I visited in the last 4 hours, I sifted out the following list that had a ton of great stuff that I’d like to return to one day (in order of value – high to low):

1. Comfort Stand
2. Land of 999 Dances
3. The Sexy Cats from Astroboy
4. LookOut Records
5. Red Ferrett Journal
6. PublicDomain4U
7. Download.com

Missing Things Tres: Normalcy
It was pointed out by one of my co-working bastards that “Shattered image” is also a real band, and cannot be used by me in an imaginary sense. Another co-working bastard then suggested that I use the name “CockHammer.” I think that there’s something really, really wrong with computer people. I really do.

Missing Thing Fyra: Meedly X 3
Yesterday’s meedly meedly meedly comments seemed to have gone right over some of your heads, so I am forced to explicitly clue you in to my reference. I now refer you to Strong Bad’s Guitar, to peruse and enjoy while I go to bed.

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