//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

I’m so much more inclined to follow Richard Dawkins when he says having a word like “athiest” for folks who don’t believe in god, is like having a word for “not a heart surgeon”. That said, anything that helps all of us better understand the opposite point of view is really a great thing. So [...]

Dear Karl. We wish you the best of luck and hope you enjoy phenomenal success on the conservative lecture circuit prior to accepting those numerous lucrative board appointments. We ask only that when you occasionally pop into Texas to see your estranged family, please tell them we said hello. In the meantime, let’s not forget [...]

Someone, please give John Waters a Lifetime Achievement Award for Best Mustache Ever. Also, I just found out that VH1 is doing this Rock Autism thing. Look, that’s a fantastic cause and I’m all for it, but people, not everything is rockable. Stop demeaning whatever issue you’re attempting to address.

“Though 
they may be tomorrow’s butterflies, they are today’s soft, squishy and 
slow-moving caterpillars.”

Rolling Stone recently published a pretty epic article about America’s failed drug war which should be required reading for any elected official who is ever required to approve additional funding for this “war”. Today, we hear word that the Supreme Court has ruled to allow judges much broader leeway in sentencing people for offenses related [...]