Somebody sent me this a while back, now I forget who. Sorry!
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It's been a while since I did one of these fairly general entries in the "Five songs I love" series:
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Let's hear it for pointless, incessant barking!
Some how I think web log means pointless incessant barking.
Well, back to barking.