It may be a bit solipsistic to presume that we’ll have anything to do with our own eventual demise. We busy ourselves, fussing about with shrinking carbon footprints and creating an environmentally friendly piece of tupperware, glaciers receeding like a hairline, apocoplyptic weaponery, messianic ideaology, pig flu, bird flu, mad cow, too many people, not enough water, global jihadism and the fucking Jonas Brothers, forgetting that for all these delightfully macabre scenarios, what might kill us all could be none of these things.

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Phoenix Music Editor Michael Brodeur talks to FNX about the Best Music Poll and really, who should win and who should NOT. There is a lot of nervous giggling and TRUTH. Read Brodeur's latest review "Czech, Please" and listen to him talk below.

MP3: Brodeur talks to FNX about the good, the bad, and the Jack-Johnson nightmares.

If FNX and Caitlin Curran got in fight, I'm not really sure who would win.

Caitlin Curran defends Tom Wethern's prize addiction to FNX, while the FNX DJs yell and call people names. Read Caitlin's article on the guy above, titled "Winner takes all: Inside the prize-filled trophy home of a seemingly obsessive-compulsive contest enterer

CONFESSIONS OF A SMUGGLER
20 years ago
February 5, 1988 | Nancy Roosa wrote of her experience as a smuggler in Asia.
“The offers were almost too good to pass up. For simply carrying items from Hong Kong into Thailand or Taiwan, as we did, handwritten signs promised US $50 to $100. Even more common are ‘milk runs,’ where a group of milk-fed innocents are led by a smuggler on a five-to-six-day trip through Customs of three countries: South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, carrying items that are limited, prohibited, or expensive in each country.

As always, in times of trouble, trial, and tribulation -- no less THE SINGLE WORST LOSS IN NEW ENGLAND SPORTS HISTORY -- we look to . . . Hannah Montana. Oh, Miley, what would you sing to a town writhing in misery this morning? What have you for the vanquished 2007-08 New England Patriots, a team whose season is destined to replace "Casey at the Bat" as the tragic, cautionary sports tale of all time?

Vote or be the worst.

MP3: Lance Gould talks to FNX about the Phoenix Best '08 poll.

Amidst all the Potter bru-ha-ha -- the parties, the movie, the final installment -- we came up with a list of 25 fantasy movies that surpass the Potter puff. Enjoy it here, and add your own suggestions, as well.

Potter-Schmotter: 25 fantasy films that lock horns, swords, and wands with Harry Potter

Lovitz and Dick have been at loggerheads since a 1997 Christmas party at [late comedian Phil] Hartman's house, five months before his troubled wife Brynn flipped out, fatally shooting Hartman, then killing herself.