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From Wikipedia's article on Robert Pollard:

"Pollard has stated that during a Lollapalooza, he and the other guys in GBV beat The Beastie Boys and Billy Corgan in a basketball game. He also stated that Kim Deal and Kelley Deal were cheering for them during the game and that Steve Drozd was riding on a bicycle during the game."

I think my favorite thing about Wikipedia is those editors who seem to know exactly what information is essential to the readers of each article. Points also to Pollard for knowing what names to drop for maximum geek reaction. I only wonder how Billy Corgan ended up on a team with The Beastie Boys, the other associations seem so impeccably natural that they might as well have been assumed.

In a moment of channel flipping desperation, I recently landed on VH1's Greatest Songs of the 90s, for all of about 10 minutes. Even that brief exposure was enough to confirm that the editorial staff of that renowned station is still unashamed as ever to stand up for what's bad, but it also delivered a punishing blow in the sight of the ordinarily unimpeachable Jonathon Coulton among the myriad ranks of their accomplices. Only Pollard's pharmacist proved capable of delivering relief, in the form of an extended Guided By Voices rock-out session.

On the subject of medicine, I'm not proud to admit that my now considerable fondness for Iron & Wine's song Passing Afternoon didn't begin until some time after the doctor's fateful bus crash.