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Garage bands across the nation are finding themselves moshing to the beat of no drummer at all this year, as a drummer crisis looms.

Desperate to make their music, young bands, like companies in a tight labor market, are adopting drummer-retention plans. Tubuku, the punk band wary of losing its drummer, Brian Monte, to PaulDrawsBlank or to some other band, lets him play drum solos, a relic of the heavy-metal era that most audiences like about as much as a long line to the restroom.

The Garage Band Association of America is also petitioning congress to issue more H1B visas so that drummers from nations abroad can lend their specialized talents to this crisis that threatens to shake our nation. (Discuss)

When Karl Kroyer was faced with the unenviable task of getting a freighter filled with the rotting corpses of around 6,000 sheep off the bottom of the Persian Gulf, he did what any sane, rational man would do, and turned to Carl Barks' Donald Duck comics for a solution. (Discuss)

Neil Gaiman on his youth -- "I was always the weird one," he says without a trace of self-criticism, just amused analysis. "It never occurred to me that I was weird. The lovely thing about being the first child is that nobody has anything to measure against, so nobody knows they're weird."

I know what he means. (Do you?)

"Apes" tops "Jurassic," wins box office, reportedly won't cuddle afterwards.