I have to agree, the current Liz Phair album sucks. (One of my top twenty favorite albums is Exile In Guyville. Pick it up if you don’t have it already.)

I Heard It On The Radio. Let’s just be clear here, before I get started. I love my Jeep. It’s running like a top, it has cold A/C, all the buttons and dials and switches work, and it seems to like me. However, the radio has developed a nasty habit of not working reliably anymore. On hot days, when it’s been sitting for a few hours in the sun, I’ll get about two minutes of NPR before the reception dives into the toilet. Then all I can seem to get in are the the annoying right-wing talk show stations, which I have no interest in hearing anyway. Even better, whenever I pass a radio relay tower, high tension power line, or cell relay tower, the reception across the dial goes down like a drunken prizefighter, and doesn’t come back up at all. So I’m looking to replace my right-wing radio with something inexpensive but flexible. My requirements are simple: $150 or less, an auxilliary input for the iPod, removeable face, and a CD player. I don’t need a remote, 400 billion watts of power, a changer, or a DVD display. Crutchfield is the obvious choice for this purchase, and I found an inexpensive Blaupunkt with all the things I need or $130.