I stopped by Emily Lockhart’s blog today with my list of Boyfriends I Never Had (and Why We Would Make a Great Match). Discussed: Why Tony Blair (pre-Bush) lights my fire; my common ground (sex and church) with the alto god Nick Cave; Loyd Cole gets Nabokovian; Steve Forbert and the Mississippi connection; what Vince Vaughn’s got that you ain’t got; and the appeal of KT Tunstall (pictured below…my husband came upon this pic and had to do a double-take, because he thought it was me! Whenever my two-year-old sees KT singing on TV, he says, “Look! Mommy music!”)....

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The godfather of soul died this morning. He was 73. Visit James Brown’s official website here. Working to the end: Brown was still touring, and was scheduled to appear at The Palace Theater in Waterbury, CT on Dec. 27. Despite his age, he had 31 scheduled shows between now and August 2007, many of them in the first two months of the new year. He was hospitalized yesterday for pneumonia, but his agent said yesterday that the unstoppable crowd-pleaser planned to perform next weekend. “Everybody’s got soul. Everybody doesn’t have the culture to draw from, but everybody’s got soul.”...

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