//RECENT

“[T]he crowd seemed really emotionally engaged with the music.”

“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”

- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An extended version of Bon Iver’s La Blogotheque Take Away Show of “For Emma, Forever Ago” with three versions of the song and some very startled tourists.  I think this is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Not just that the song is so beautiful, and is so beautifully sung, but that [...]

A man once said, “Childrens do learn.” and I believe childrens should learn to dream big dreams. Even better is to dream arty dreams like a hipster might draw. This hipster author’s name is Dallas Clayton. Although I do not know for sure that Dallas Clayton is a hipster, he looks like this: And, I [...]

It isn’t simply that you are loved gloriously, or loved beautifully. But rather that a pitch perfect expression of love for you sounds and sounds, Rises into the very air. Though the love itself may fade, I do not know, The poetry you inspire ascends, ascending Becomes stars and you, who are so loved, Look [...]

//FROM THE ARCHIVES

What began as a simple frustration that the recently broadcast succession of presidential debates should be, but is not, easily and freely accessible online, quickly turned my attention back to something to which Republicans, for some reason, instantly bristle: The Fairness Doctrine. This was a simple codification of the idea that broadcast airwaves were, first [...]

“…I don’t need MENSA to know that I’m smart.”

…although I taste a little throwup.

Humvee + McDonald’s equals a match made in heaven.

“‘Crusty Punk’ sounds fittingly like a euphemism for syphilis.”