Remember the 12 CD’s for the Price of One Days?

BMG Music Service stopped accepting new members this week, marking the end of the once-ubiquitous “12 for the price of one” offers that the mail-order CD club was known for.

A spokesperson for BMG Music Service parent Direct Brands confirmed Tuesday that the music club is no longer accepting new members, although she declined to comment on whether the company plans to shut down the club completely. “We are still very actively engaged with our existing member base and will be making more changes to serve them…more effectively later in 2009,” the spokesperson said.

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Bag of Randomness

  • I think that movie BIg Fish is sticking with me as I dreamed about my death the other night.  It was much like the movie in that I was walking towards the river, but on my own, and just about everyone I knew, alive and passed, where there on waters edge to cheer me on.  Funny thing, in the crowed were many BagOfNothing commentors, most of whom I have never met, yet I was able to recognize y’all completly.
  • One person in the crowd stood out and had me cracking up, it was my friend Jimi.  Out of a sign of brotherly love and just being boyish and teasing like guys often do he was flipping me the double bird and sticking his tongue out.
  • For some reason a couple of years ago I started this new routine with my friend Jimi, who has been a friend since kindergarten and a college roommate, and yet we still remain buds.  See, we have this unwritten guy code that you can’t be shown as soft or emotional, that you kind of have to be macho, and you can’t do anything that might imply that you are gay – not that there’s anything wrong with that.  For instance, when we go to the movies, we have to have a buffer seat between us.  Well, as we end our conversation on the phone, I will say “I love you” trying to get him to say it back, and usually he ends up pretending there’s static on the phone and he’s losing his signal and he can’t make out what I just said.
  • The other day he called me from his work phone, which happens to be on a recorded line, which is something he has to state.  I then told him this, “Jimi, since we are on a recorded line, I just want to go on record that I have no problem with you being a homosexual and hope that you come out of the closet soon.  You’re my friend, and I’ll back you 100%, and I love you.”
  • In addition to being friends since kindergarten and being roommates during and after college, we also worked for the same company.  There was this one time we took a break and strolled around the building and came back in and walked into an empty elevator.  We worked on different floors, with my floor coming up first.  As he selected the floors and when the doors to the elevator closed, I totally let one rip.  But what was funny was when I reached my floor and got off the elevator there was a nice young lady entering, thinking that Jimi was the perpetrator.
  • I’ve had a crick in my neck for the past five days.
  • I average about 2500-3000 unique visitors a day, but on Monday I had over 12,000 unique visitors.  Turns out I was getting a bunch of traffic from a Russian search engine over this 2006 post about Oxama Malaya, the Ukrainian Dog Girl.
  • Now only if my Russian bride will come in the mail.
  • Last year WifeGeeding and I took a roadtrip to the west coast, and it was fantastic.  I’m kind of in a roadtripping mood right now, but I no vacation time built up.
  • Have you ever read a comic but totally didn’t understand it?  Well, there’s a blog devoted to such a thing.
  • There’s a couple of upgrades I want to make to this website, but I think it would take about two days to complete – too bad my weekends are usually full.  One thing I would like to create, but I don’t know how to do so, is a page that displayed the last 50 comments.
  • I have some Anthony Bourdain shows recorded on the DVR that I need to watch.  From my understanding he’s spending a year in Vietnam to write a novel.  I sure wish my mother was still alive, this would have been something fun to watch with her, and would have been a great mother/son bonding experience.
  • Someone from the Christian Science Monitor thinks an evangelical collapse will happen in about ten years.
  • This is a creative practical joke you can pull on Diet Coke drinkers.  Link
  • Here’s an interesting and somewhat thorough and unbiased analysis of the Cramer/Stewart Bear Stearns debate.
  • Grace
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