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Tuesday, February 27, 2001

If the world isn’t safe from Steely Dan, there’s nothing stopping Kenny Loggins

"What I really hope happened is that at the moment of contact, the moment when Elton's mouth was right up by Eminem's ear, Elton whispered, 'Tag, sister! You've touched me. Now you've got the gay. Pass it on.'"

Arizona Republic. Laurie Notaro makes a few wisecracks on the Grammy Awards. "Who let Steely Dan out of Bad Music Prison! I thought they had life sentences, forced to listen to an endless loop of 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number' and 'Hey Nineteen' until they clawed their own ears off. When did they make another album? Had I known it was even a possibility, I would have started a petition against it."'

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