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Six-year-old Bentley Green gives a shout to all single mamas out there. Damn, the science is too tight!

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A mainstay of the old-timey cinema era, the Photoplayer was a pump organ designed for player piano rolls, sound effects and a human composer.

Courtesy of Huell Howser.

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It was 1998 in Boston when I first came across the musical stylings of Dr. Nancy Mroczek, Ph.D. The boys and I were at Brandon Graham's apartment in the Back Bay when we caught a performance of "Cosmic Pow Wow" on public access TV. With the nearly all-black band funk outfit Kolors backing Dr. Nancy up, this performance alone solidifies her position as one of the leading psychiatrist/outsider musicians of our time.

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Hats off to the good people at Merge Records for sending along a Robert Pollard baseball card. I enjoyed collecting baseball cards in elementary and middle school, so it's nice to have one for the rock deity himself.

Given the Insound.com logo on the front, it appears to be one of a series of ten cards designed to celebrate musicians who, um, sell stuff at Insound.com.

But the card makes sense. Pollard has jumbo (rock) stats and an inclination towards sports (Fun Fact: Pollard starred in high school football and basketball, and pitched a no-hitter in college baseball). It's hard to think of a musical "icon" more deserving of a sports card.

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