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...Wraith Pinned to the Mist (and Other Games...
...have to be in the right mood for Of Montreal. The aggressively happy group will cheer you up whether you like it or not, which, as anyone with perky friends knows, is not always pleasant. Their tools are such songs as “Wraith Pinned to the Mist (and Other Games)” (ironically unrelated to wraiths, mist, or games), and the video for the same. Like anything so sugary, it can be both delicious and cavity-inducing...
...prime Johnny Cash. "He was at his most powerful in the early '60s," says writer-publisher Jack Hurst, author of a book on the Grand Ole Opry. "Back then he was so deeply into the amphetamines that he had lost an awful lot of weight. He looked like a wraith, but a powerful wraith. He was like a prowling tiger onstage. You could see the man fighting demons. This was around the time he was recording Ballads of the True West, and I think he saw visions of himself as an outlaw, with a noose around his neck...
...friend who will undoubtedly die soon. The sad and lonely life of Death's Specter typifies the dark humor and vague allegory of these stories. Another episode has bird-man suddenly and inexplicably turn invisible. He reads a book, makes soup and waits for the crosswalk as a wraith. Haven't you ever felt like that? Becoming a political assassin puts an instant end to his invisibility, unluckily...
...some manufacturers, although others admit to using the same IMEI numbers in handsets destined for different parts of the world. Would disabling all stolen IMEI numbers be such a bad idea? "Imagine you have 100 phones with the same IMEI, and you cut them all off," says Jack Wraith, a spokes-man for the U.K.'s Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum. "One person will complain, and 99 criminals will shrug and say, 'Well, I had a good time while it lasted...