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—:it seems odd, ive never participated in wikipedia much, just spelling
errors mostly. a sentence here or there. but i noticed that Kevin Barnes’
(from of Montreal) alter-ego Georgie Fruit doesnt have his own listing (it
redirects to of Montreal). just based on the most obvious parallel i checked
to see if Ziggy Stardust has his own alter-ego biography page. nada.

—:i dont know how many of you out there have listened to the new album
‘skeletal lamping’ (it leaked, its out there), but in interviews and in
listening to the album you definitely get the impression that barnes is
working on the lyrics with a partner. the album is brilliantly executed in
all the usual ways. thing is, it takes on a fractal, refracted voice that is
unmatched by anyone. Ziggy Stadust has a page, not as an alterego, but as a
reference to the tunes. but even so, Ziggy Stardust became a recurring
character prop; not so much an alter-ego that actually was able to pierce
that wall between what the songwriter shares, and what is really there.
Georgie Fruit, on the other hand, is absolutely an id tattletale. whereas
barnes can only go so far revealing himself, there is this quality of
Georgie Fruit to directly disembowel Barnes and serve it up at 98.6.

—:i still need to revisit hissing fauna, not because i didnt like it (which
i didlike it), but because i think the two albums usher in this degree of
personalization, and self-flagellating disclosure that was not available in
the first 10 years of albums.

—:odd what outback steak house money can do.

—:from my post to the wiki;discuss page:::from of Montreal “It does seem to
me that in the case of Georgie Fruit (as well as Ziggy Stardust for that
matter) there should be a biography page. I was redirected to the Of
Montreal page when trying to find more information on the alter ego on its
own. Considering that Georgie Fruit is less a prop for Barnes as was the
case with Bowie’s use of an alter-ego, this split or splinter personality is
more psychologically potent than any description of onstage antics will
characterize. In practice, the melo-drama of the stage show will more likely
marginalize the Georgie Fruit component of the Skeletal Lamping album.
(Essentially, Barnes uses Fruit as a FOIL mechanism for illuminating and
deconstructing his own personal demons.)” (join in
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“Go on Without Me Hillary Clinton throws *almost* everything behind Barack
Obama.”

*By John Dickerson
*Updated Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, at 12:52 AM ET

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“Watching Hillary Clinton speak at the Democratic National Convention, I was
reminded of one of those old war movies in which the wounded hero
melodramatically says to his comrades, “Go on without me.”

“The old complaint about the Clintons is that they only care about
themselves. They’ll do anything to win. They never let go. Clinton turned
that stereotype on its head in the centerpiece of her speech. “Were you in
this campaign just for me?” she asked, and the correct answer,
surprisingly, was no.
“It wasn’t clear she was going to get there. She said some nice words about
Obama in her speechyeah, she was proud to support him, finebut then she
switched into a litany of issues she’d fought for and people who had placed
their faith in her. It was all about her, it sounded like. But then, with
that question, she pivoted. The litany she’d just recited became an argument
for Obama instead of a list of reasons to vote for her. “

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“Russia’s historic role of the guarantor of (!)piece(/!) in the Caucasus has
increased,” said Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the lower chamber. “The Caucasus
has always been and will remain the zone of Russia’s strategic interests.” (
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)

ok, so this /appears/ to be a typo, as in guarantor of /peace/? right?