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I have long been a fan of The Smoking Gun, which came to prominence recently for exposing the (ahem) misleading statements in the best-selling "memoir" A Million Little Pieces.

My favorite section of the site, however, is the collection of riders. Touring musicians enter into contracts with the venues that they perform in. Riders are addendums to those contracts, where the musicians spell out what they want to see in their dressing rooms backstage. Riders are telling evidence of any particular musician's eccentricities, as well as amusing examples of contract drafting. My current favorite is a rider drafted by someone on behalf of the Foo Fighters. Take note of the portions indicated by the red arrows (the other stuff is typical boring "contract-ese"), especially those comments that have no legal effect but make the document much easier to plow through.