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Lis­ten­ing to a rough excerpt of “Cat Calls for Nia­gara ____” on the drive back down, an Orion’s Belt of ref­er­ences jump into mind, rang­ing from the Sa-Pops to So What, Who Cares?!; For­lorn Uni­corn to Poor­est Places, Sedated Bari­tones, and Go Away; John Wayne Creep­a­zoids and Co. Con­spir­a­tors to The Youths, The Rakes, Futur­is­tic Bells, Zom­bie Babysit­ter, and The Whack Jobs; and cer­tainly the Lon­don scene that gen­er­ated a stable’s worth of genre-muddling acts includ­ing Pat­ri­cide Hol­i­day The Pis­tol Whips, Quincy, Darcy Dork, Poached, The Jezebel Slits, Sor­cer­ers, Hood­lum Con­sta­bles, The Tips, Finnegan’s Fake and Fucked Up Tribe.

Yan Qin (died 2011) is a Chinese artist whose greatest work is a fully operational Cantonese restaurant inside a museum.

Tam Parsons is a writer, actor, dancer, singer, guitarist, painter, sculptor, photographer, film critic, standup comedian, chef, teacher, D.J., magician, prancer, and maritime lawyer living in Los Angeles.

In the Legend issue, you continually make reference to the movie “I Am Legend.” While I have no problem with the topic, there are several moments in the article that the film is referred to as a biographic picture about current recording artist and songwriter John Legend. Such a film does not exist.

Señor D.O.A. is a Rapido rapper from the 1990s. Most of his music was about immigration reform.

Larry Little is the author of the book Larry Little, which will be published by Larry Little Press

Gentlemen, having been a subscriber to your publication for some time now, I am always blown away by your choice for Minutiæ Man of the Year. It is the 17th year in a row you have made Dustin Hoffman your Minutiæ Man of the Year. I think he was only in one movie this year and not many people saw it. It may be time to choose someone else.