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Maybe I’m late to the party on this one, but while I was cleaning the house the other day, Ray Charles came round on the iPod singing “You Don’t Know Me.” And I’ll be Connie Frikkin Hopper if the first half of the verse of “You Don’t Know Me” isn’t nearly identical to the first […]

Longtime reader AG writes to Ask Avery:

I wanted to let you know how much I’ve enjoyed reading your blog.  As you know I’ve been reading it since you started it several years ago.  I’ve laughed at some of the posts, gone out and bought cds as a result of some of the posts […]

So early, in fact, she doesn’t really sound like Janet Paschal yet:

It’s not so very good, is it? The sound is all up in her nasal passages and the front of her face and mouth, flattened out into unpleasant straight tones and dipthonged to death. She’s singing entirely too hard. She’s often just plain out […]

Via sg collector nonpareil DA: before The Homecoming board game, there was the SGM Game, ca. 1977.

Fun, as Dad Speer might have said, for the whole fam damily.
I think some of you thought I was joking about being kinda smitten by the Gaither boardgame (and frankly sorry I missed bidding on it), but I’m genuinely […]

What separates them from the herd? Via Andrew Sullivan, Merlin Mann and Jason Kottke weigh in.

In case you’ve got Sego drama fatigue …
All we need now is for some disaffected fanboy to start doing some dishing on the world of LuLu Roman, and the nominations for the “best supporting actor from the Golden Girls of Southern Gospel tour” will be complete.

This has got to be the best ebay sg auction item to come along at least since the singing in tongues album.

The internet is for porn on Avenue Q, but in sg, it’s also evidently useful for d-list score settling.

AVFL’s fourth anniversary came and went a week or so ago. To mark the occasion, we reach into the Ask Avery bag and turn it over to RA, who writes:

What has surprised you most since you started blogging?

Probably the single biggest surprise: that I haven’t run out of things to say. […]

Writing about ChoZen, I was reminded of this note from a friend mine that arrived several weeks ago:

What is with the overabundance of groups that, for one reason or another (I guess they think it’s cool), use either a number in the group’s name or a “clever” way of spelling a specific word.
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