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Friday quickies!

• Brief update from the Boston Globe on Mentos and Diet Coke performance artists Stephen Voltz and pal Fritz Grobe… (yay, EepyBird.com!)
• NYT on yummy, super-creamy, low-fat ice cream. What's the catch? It contains genetically modified "ice structuring" proteins that are "cloned from the blood of an eel-like Arctic Ocean fish, the ocean pout". I'm sure that the Japanese will love it (ref: Japanese Ice Creams, The Wackier World of Japanese Ice Cream).
• For your listening pleasure: Jane's Addiction's Been Caught Stealin' like you've never heard it before. (I heard this on The Infinite Mind on North Country Public Radio a few weeks ago and almost did a spit-take. I just learned today that it's Lea DeLaria singing!)
• It's a Yule tide!
• Jack Kerouac's original version of On the Road soon to be published in its entirety. "The version of "On the Road" that Kerouac wrote [on a 119-foot paper scroll] will be published next year in book form for the first time, said John Sampas of Lowell, the executor of the writer's literary estate and the brother of his third wife, Stella. It will include some sections that had been cut from the novel because of references to sex or drugs."