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Man, the world sure is kooky.

Sitting here at home, waiting for laundry, I'm playing my guitar. The AP Guitar Tuner is a teeny freeware app that works just as well as any $60 guitar tuner I've ever bought. Plus, it has tons of alternate tunings built-in, so you can experiment with all kinds of Sonic Youth-isms. Fantastic.

So, in the bedroom, in my chair, laptop whirring away on my desk, guitar perfectly tuned, I hit The Online Guitar Archive to dig up some songs to play. Another fine, fine resource. So as I'm jamming out Bob Mould's Black Sheets of Rain, I realize that in the 12 years since the song has been released (which is enough of a fright in itself), I can't quite remember all the lyrics, and due to legal issues they don't publish lyrics on OLGA. Time to find the lyrics on the 'Net.

One Google query later, I'm on Mr. Mould's personal site.

Now, I should pause for a second and say that for those of you who don't really know me personally, Hüsker Dü (and Mr. Mould in particular) are right up there with Sesame Street in exerting major forces in the shaping of my character.

So imagine my shock when reading his site:

... I got sidetracked for 7 months in late 1999/early 2000, assuming the role of Creative Consultant at the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling branch of AOL/TimeWarner. Being part of the team that, each week, created 4 to 7 hours of live episodic television watched by 3-4 million households per show was a childhood dream come true, and perhaps the hardest work Iﾕve ever done...

Bob Mould? The WCW?!? Like I said, the world is just plain kooky. Some of you who are more in the know probably feel this is old news, and I guess it is. But it's news to me. Read more here.