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Title The future dictionary of America : a book to benefit progressive causes in the 2004 elections featuring over 170 of America's best writers and artists.

Imprint [San Francisco] : McSweeney's Books ; [Seattle] : Barsuk Records, [2004]
©2004
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 2nd FL Humanities Library Books  E902 .F88 2004    Available
 2nd FL Humanities Library Audio CD's  E902 .F88 2004    Available
Collation 208 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (78 min., 20 sec. : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.)
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Note "An unprecedented book-CD package to benefit progressive causes featuring over 200 of America's best writers, artists & musicians ... also including a 22-track CD with new songs ..."--Jacket.
Includes index.
Contents Of compact disc: This will be our year (OK Go) -- Ain't got so far to go (David Byrne) -- Game of pricks (Jimmy Eat World) -- This temporary life (Death Cab for Cutie) -- I miss you (Blink-182) -- Move on (Mike Doughty) -- Jerry Falwell destroyed the earth (Ben Kweller) -- Off with your head (Sleater-Kinney) -- Final straw (R.E.M.) -- Going for the gold (Bright Eyes) -- The commander thinks aloud (The Long Winters) -- Money (will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas) -- Tippicanoe and Tyler too (They Might Be Giants) -- The ballad of David Icke (Clem Snide) -- Date with the night (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) -- Everything's ruined (Fountains of Wayne) -- Your legs grow (Nada Surf) -- Yoshimi battles the pink robots (The Flaming Lips) -- Northern line (Old 97's) -- Sam Stone (Laura Cantrell) -- Day after tomorrow (Tom Waits) -- A distorted reality is now a necessity to be free (Elliott Smith).
Summary Presents an outrageous imagining of what a dictionary might look like thirty years after the 2004 presidential election and contains examples of words from over two hundred writers, musicians, and artists along with a twenty-two-track CD.
Note Gift of Christopher S. Kim.
Subject Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- -- Humor.
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- fast (OCoLC)fst00363849
Conservatism -- United States -- Humor.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2004.
Campaign funds -- Elections.
Progressivism (United States politics) -- Humor.
Social prediction -- United States.
Political satire, American.
American wit and humor.
American wit and humor. fast (OCoLC)fst00807457
Conservatism. fast (OCoLC)fst00875582
Political satire, American. fast (OCoLC)fst01069725
Politics and government. fast (OCoLC)fst01919741
Presidents -- Election. fast (OCoLC)fst01075747
Progressivism (United States politics) fast (OCoLC)fst01078751
Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01919811
Social prediction. fast (OCoLC)fst01122769
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Humor.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Humor -- Dictionaries.
United States -- Social conditions -- Humor.
United States -- Social conditions -- Humor -- Dictionaries.
United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
Alt Title Title on disc label: Future soundtrack for America
ISBN 193241620X
9781932416206