Portugal lies to the west of Spain.

But a lot of times in order to make the right decisions, reactionwise, you have to make them quick.

Or that Americans, Canadians, and Québécois are so alike as late-modernist or postmodernist peoples - our consumerist lifestyles so analogous – that cultural production from Canada or Quebec can barely be of interest to USians, that it is not exotic or troubling enough to warrant more attention.

Take, for example, the following passage from Dan Hancox's blog post about sodcasting and note in particular how Hancox names a variety of technologies — from filesharing software limewire to mobile phones—and the way their traces seem to issue from the crunchy timbres and impoverished (bass) frequencies of the music itself, qualities which have come to periodize these recordings for the author and his cohorts.