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Music Monday Two Days Early: The Decemberists
I had been hearing too much about The Decemberists (on NPR, in the context of Stephen Colbert hilarious guitar challenge to them after he claimed they ripped off his blue screen challenge on one of their music videos) not to download their latest album, The Crane Wife. The fact that Colbert faux-derisively labeled them “hyper-literate [...]
Baffled
This is weird. Not more than two days ago I mentioned the cultural criticism journal The Baffler to Sara when she asked who Thomas Frank is (whose name I mentioned in conjunction with his book What’s the Matter with Kansas?). Frank founded The Baffler in 1988 in Chicago while I was a grad student there. [...]