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If you thought it was hot in my apartment before, just wait until next year.

I said “Pick a number between 1 and 27″ and Joe said “Pi.” I’m going to round down to 3.

Toren’s Mixed Tape #3

circa 1991

Nomeansno “Now”
Glenn Miller “In the Mood”
Screaming Trees “Lay Your Head Down”
Mudhoney “Something So Clear”
Tad “Plague Years”
Big Black “Colombian Necktie”
Dinosaur Jr “Budge”
Masters of Reality “Kill the King”
Pixies “The Happening”
Butthole Surfers “Hurdy Gurdy Man”
Soundgarden “Jesus Christ Pose”
Tom Waits “Sweet Little Bullet”

SIDE TWO:
Nirvana “Downer”
Fugazi “Joe #1″
Harry Connick Jr “You Didn’t Know Me When”
Nomeansno “Body Bag”
Monty Python “Every Sperm is Sacred”
Screaming Trees “Beyond This Horizon”
Glenn Miller “Pennsylvania 6-5000″
Mudhoney “Thorn”
Tad “Behemoth”
Shuffle Demons “What Do You Want?”
Big Black “Texas”
Dinosaur Jr “Muck”
Masters of Reality “The Blue Garden”

It’s likely this was before I had enough CDs to support a ‘one song per band’ limit on the mix tapes.

Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey announced that he is a “gay American” and resigned. “I am here today because, shamefully, I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony,” he said. “It was wrong. It was foolish. It was inexcusable.” [Men's News Daily]

The California Supreme Court nullified gay marriages in that state

Four people were arrested in the Philippines for killing, cooking, and eating a relative at a wedding reception. [Associated Press]

A British rapist who was out of prison for a weekend leave won the lottery

Dominican migrants, lost at sea on their way to Puerto Rico, threw a woman overboard when she refused to share her breast milk with other passengers.

A 480-pound Florida woman who had not left her couch for six years died when doctors attempted to separate her from the couch, which was fused to her body. [WFTV.com]

President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan ordered the construction of a palace of ice.

Croatian explorers found the world’s deepest hole.

A Pakistani man was in custody in North Carolina for videotaping skyscrapers. [Associated Press]

Roughly 1,600 Palestinians in Israeli jails began a hunger strike to protest their conditions; “As far as I’m concerned, they can strike for a day, a month, until death,” said Tzahi Hanegbi, the Israeli security minister. [BBC]

A flaming rabbit burned down a British cricket club. [Reuters]

British researchers were granted a license to clone human stem cells.

A new strain of HIV, which is undetectable by normal HIV tests, has appeared in Cameroon.

A twin delivered two sets of twins on her birthday.

Scientists used a dopamine blocker to turn lazy monkeys into hard workers. [Reuters]