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Finally saw Arlo Guthrie in concert. He's a hell of a showman. I was distraught he didn't do Alice's Restaurant, which I consider one of the funniest things ever. I suppose I can understand his being tired of an almost 20-minute piece he must have performed thousands of times.

Things I didn't know: he says the story is mostly true as told. In the 1969 film adaptation, Officer Obie played himself. Guthrie bought Alice Brock's church, as depicted in the song; it's now home to The Guthrie Center. And a serial killer acting as his own attorney played the song in its entirety during his trial. He's on death row now.

To console myself, I bought a CD of The Best of Arlo Guthrie the next day and played it for Pocahontas. I'm gratified to report that she liked it as much as I do, and wanted to listen to it again the day after that.

For the past seven years, I've had to bend over backward to wash my hair in my shower. I'm not tall, but the shower head was really low. I'd figured that'd get old as I got old, and dreaded having to hire someone to rip the shower apart to fix it. This AskMe question alerted me to the existence of shower head extensions.

About $13 and 5 minutes of work later, and I'll never have to bend over backward again. Sometimes, there's a really easy fix.

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Density is typically listed in g/cc, but is about the same in pounds/pint.