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once upon a time in the late 1990s i was a contractor at realnetworks in seattle (before they moved into the beautiful headquarters down by the waterfront and were based in a skyscraper downtown). i can't remember my exact title but it had something to do with content management of realguide.com. the team i worked with had daily meetings on content to feature on the homepage and within the real software. that year, in the days leading up to the mlk holiday, we were having our quotidian editorial meeting when this little white dude, who was in charge of some of the music content features suggested that we commemorate the holiday by featuring the isaac hayes/south park song "chocolate salty balls." i gave him a death stare. i had an asian-american co-worker who was shocked into silence and the rest of the (white) folks in the room were embarrassed into sheepishness except for lucy mohl (the founder of film.com), who swiftly nixed that offensive idea. i can't remember that dude's name (although if i thought hard enough i could but i don't want to). thank god for realnetworks his suggestion was killed at the root.

this year, within realnetwork's rhapsody player, this is what shows up in the music guide feature rotation: