fernwood 2 night: Martin Mull (RIP) interviews Tom Waits on first talk show satire
dead heat: polls indicate that the US presidential race is virtually tied, unchanged after the debate performance alberta bound: the Great Canadian Song Map—via Web Curios
tropic of cancer: some of the US falls outside of NATO’s geographic scope—see also
moved permanently: North American telephone area codes that are also HTTP response headers—see previously—via Kottke
shelley’s heart: Charles McCarry’s eerily prescient 1995 political thriller
now benson, i’m going to have to turn you into a dog for a while: Taika Waititi is serialising Terry Gilliams’s 1981 Time Bandits for television
