May 2011
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This Bill Callahan interview is full of gems, like “The current music is mostly like a doctor’s visit. Where you check off the questionnaire about the past and hope they don’t stick a finger up your butt.”
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“I don’t want to be teased with feathers by someone tittering in a harlequin mask hiding behind a pillar—I want to be high-fived or hugged by a blinged out...
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"The Wood Duck" by James Thurber →
Jonathan Lethem reading James Thurber’s story “The Wood Duck,” first published in 1936, for The New Yorker’s Fiction Podcast.
If you find yourself with twenty minutes to spare today, I really recommend you check this out. I rarely have the patience to listen to people talking when I could instead be listening to music (part of the reason why I like public radio a lot more...
My dreaming mind just created the most beautiful episode of Parks and Recreation (n)ever aired. It was bookended by scenes of ad-hoc choruses singing a song about “the goddamn trees” (which in my mind was the last song ever written by George Harrison) and had some really gorgeous night-time cinematography that kind of looked like it belonged in a Fritz Lang movie.
Also, these...
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This is the second Nell Boeschenstein piece I’ve read where she just knocks it out of the park. Topics discussed include Paul Simon, Elvis, the slide from late-’60s radicalism to late-’80s domesticity, etc.
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I believe in two things: Taco Tuesday and Corn Dog Friday. All else is superstition, trickery, and falsehood.
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Sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows
I usually hate Sundays but today was a real red letter day, y’know. I watched two movies, both of which were funnier and sweeter than I expected; finished a book; got really excited about the idea of making fruit salad, which is definitely a first, so I did just that; ate both my meals outside on the balcony (lemme tell ya, steak and eggs for dinner just feels right); went out for ice cream...
