Nov 24th, 2008 · When The White Album was released 40 years ago this month, fans were both baffled and awe struck by its sprawling world of sound. It was released as a double LP (almost unheard of at the time) and featured instant classics like "I Will," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and "Blackbird." But The White Album (its real name is simply The Beatles) was also filled with songs many found hard to digest, like the eight-minute, experimental sound collage "Revolution 9" or the inexplicably surreal "Honey Pie."
Keywords: world · songs · album · revolution · Beatles · surreal · baffling · LPs · unheard · collage · blackbird · Honey Pie
Jun 26th, 2007 · Handsome Furs, a duo composed of Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner and his fiancee Alexei Perry, specializes in sparse, repetitive pop melodies coupled with baffling, poetic words. "Hearts of Iron" becomes more mysterious as it progresses over an even, hymn-like tune.
Keywords: mysteries · duo · melodies · golden · baffling · poetic · Sparse · repetitive · fiancee · Handsome Furs · Wolf Parade · Dan Boeckner
Dec 6th, 2006 · A rash of organized almond thievery has baffled police and almond growers in California's Central Valley. Police are finally making inroads into cracking the agricultural crime ring suspected in the thefts.
Keywords: crime · organization · agriculture · California · theft · Central Valley · growers · baffling · Almond · Inroads · thievery
Sep 8th, 2006 · If you haven't heard of Mike Judge's film Idiocracy, starring Luke Wilson, you're not alone. Fans and critics are baffled by the lack of promotional effort from 20th Century Fox. The setting is a dumbed-down America hundreds of years in the future.
Keywords: America · baffling · publicity · dumb · promotional · Century Fox · Paucity · Idiocracy · Mike Judge · Luke Wilson
Nov 6th, 2005 · From lovesick personals to "help wanted" notices with some peculiar requirements: a look at the history of classified ads in the United States. Author Sara Bader shares some of the funny, heartrending and just plain baffling advertisements featured in her book, Strange Red Cow and Other Curious Classified Ads from the Past.
Keywords: United States · history · Ad · Strange · personal · Advertisers · lovesick · notices · peculiar · Sara Bader · heartrending · baffling
Oct 19th, 2005 · Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has emerged as a central character in the controversy surrounding the leak of the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Plame. Mike Pesca takes a closer look at one of the more baffling mysteries: Libby's reluctance to discuss what the "I" stands for in his name.
Keywords: Lewis Scooter · Libby · Vice President Dick Cheney · identity · CIA · operative · Controversy · Lewis · Valerie Plame · mysteries · baffling · Pesca
