Todd's Top Ten Personal Favorite Unregistered domain names:

1. interactiveshoes.com

2. killmygirlfriend.com

3. supernumerarynipple.org

4. asstaster.com

5. faygo.com
(i actually registered this one, hoping that Faygo beverages would beat a hot path to my door for rights once they launch their enormous interactive initiative)

6. pantyliner.com

7. friendsofpolpot.com

8. steakum.com

9. billy-squier.com

10. penisenvy.org

*interesting footnote:
in an act of corporate espionage unlike anything we have seen in this century, "salt.com" has been registered to the Indiana SUGAR Company. I can just picture Stan Waltspuss, CEO of the Indiana Sugar Company presenting this news at a marketing board meeting, exclaiming, "now we've got them right where we want them. Soon, everyone will be sugaring their popcorn, sugaring their pretzels, french fries, and celery sticks. We'll be rich. Rich beyond our wildest dreams!!!"

Fantasy Tribute Album

The dearth of tribute albums has lead us to contemplate what will unravel as the minor rock artists of the seventies and eighties start to have hommage paid to them, since all the really talented people have already been lauded. As long as tribute records sell, we'll never be in short supply of musicians doing what they used to scoff at one another for - cover tunes.

Volume I: Pick Up Styx

Smashing Pumpkins - Come Sail Away

kd lang - Babe

Smashing Pumpkins - Best of TImes

Superchunk - Loreli

Smashing Pumpkins - Too Much Time on My hands

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Blue Collar Man

Smashing Pumpkins - Lady

Ween - Mr Roboto

Smashing Pumpkins - Renegade

Red Kross - Don't Let it End

We can't be the only ones who think the Punkins are the Styx of the nineties. C'mon Billy, you know you want to. We also think the best thing about this particular tribute album is that it may - even though at the moment it is merely an object of fantasy - be the only tribute album without Soul Asylum on it.

Soul Asylum seems to make an appearance on every cover or tribute album out there, leading Leslie to frequently assert that Soul Asylum should give up all all pretense of being a real band at all and just becoming the most sought after wedding band of our time. They do straight covers, know all the hipster anthems, and haven't released a record that was any good since the late 80s. So - Dave - time to cash in. You could probably even get away with not wearing the standard wedding band rental tux if you brought your foxy girlfriend Winona with you.

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