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WEEKLYDIG.COMTARTOFDARKNESSFREE1.28.09-2.4.09

NEWS

LAWYERS SCREWED IN BROKACHUSETTS

DRINKS

THE DRIER THE BETTER

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A+E

FUNNYMAN AZIZ ANSARI: THIS TIME IT’S IMPERSONAL

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e x i t p o l l c r o s s w o r d c o m i c s s a v a g e l o v e a r t s + e n t e r t a i n m e n t d i g t h i s e a t s + d r i n k s d e p a r t m e n t o f c o m m e r c e n e w s + f e a t u r e s l e t t e r s

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Dear 66 bus route,What the fuck?!? I don’t knowexactly what falls under youroffered services but I’m prettydamn sure that picking up pas-sengers at bus stops is fuckingone of them. Maybe you didn’tsee me freezing my ass off onthe side of Huntington afterwaiting there 20-plus minutesin 10-degree weather only soyou could blow by me. I guess Iwasn’t standing close enough tothe bus stop to be considered.Did you recognize me when Icaught up to you four stops laterafter chasing you through half of fucking Allston? And I know itwasn’t your fault that time youbroke down in Brookline, forcingeveryone to get off and walk tothe next stop, making me payagain to get on the second busthat came to get us. I reiter-ate: What the fuck?!? The worstpart is that you and I both knowthat I have no choice but tocontinue riding you no matterhow shitty your service is. Sofor all the future times that youwill undoubtedly fuck me over ...Fuck You.

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VOL 11 + ISSUE 4DEAR READER,

The uture is now! We have a new president and whitehouse.govboasts actual content.But all this talk o “change” extends beyond government. Changeis constant; everything’s been changing since the printing press, thewheel, since the day sh grew eet (I said it, Rick Warren!). The gearsnever stopped churning these past eight years (though it may have

felt

like it) and the election o one man has not turned this nation into a“post-racial” Candyland (though we like the name … “United States oAmerica” sounds kinda stodgy, don’t it?).The

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is running alongside this “uture” thing, adapting to it anddocumenting it. We’ve interviewed The Shills about their brand newCD, and wrote up UsTrendy.com, where users vote on clothing designs.Media Farm has begun blogging daily at weeklydig.com, oering PSAsabout the threat to literacy known as bad journalism. And at that samesite, you’ll nd longer versions o Turbovsky’s interview with Aziz Ansariand Isabelle Davis’ rap session with ?uestlove, among other websclu-sives. Just don’t ask me to Tweet … that’s an evolutionary hiccup i Iever saw one.

CARA bAyLES

| CArA@WEEKLYDIG.COM

public serviceannouncement:wizards needed

Dear

Dig

,Got this email, and it occurredto me that it might be more yourexpertise than my own.

AlexViA emAil

To Whom It May Concern:Germany has been secretly stealingin Nigeria and from Nigeria, using asatellite, since over three years.If you have a supernaturalpower, please apply or use thesupernatural power in a fair wayto suitably curse Germany to theeffect that Germany will returnwhatever Germany has secretlystolen in Nigeria and from Nigeriathat is returnable; without loss of human life.Please make information hereinavailable to your friend(s).

not a fan of thenew ’do

Dear

Dig

,About the face-lift ... it’s not sogood. Three truncated musicreviews, instead of seven. And no jokey bad review? No full calendar, just a few items hand-picked by

Dig

staff. And where is

Thinking ApeBlues

?! I appreciate Laura Dargustrying to put a positive spin on thechanges, but I fear they may havemore to do with cost-cutting andad sales than anything else. Maybeloyal

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readers would prefer it if you told it to ’em straight? Kudoson the cover, though—you’re notgoing to nd Jesus with stigmatagiving Bush and Cheney the ngertoo many other places.

mikeSomerVille

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