Category: Arts & Entertainment
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Bespoke Dissidence
An essay by Gregory Thompson intelligently and compassionately rejects the lie of far-right manufactured victimization.
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Semi-New Song Sunday: Aunty Donna
Aunty Donna is an Australian comedy group that has been aggressively promoting their new Netflix series. I heard about them via an Australian video/podcast channel I watch regularly called “Mr. Sunday Movies,” so now YouTube believes I’m the world’s biggest fan, and is recommending them constantly. “Everything’s a Drum” is from a two-year-old live benefit…
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The Mandalorian: His Backpack’s Got Jets
My reactions to the last couple episodes of The Mandalorian, “The Jedi” and “The Tragedy”
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Dolly’s Said It Before
Dolly Parton is eternally awesome, and lately I’ve been trying to learn from her about real authenticity
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Track Two’s Too Terrific
Digging through my iTunes library to find my favorite track twos and celebrate never being cool.
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I Don’t Think You’re Ready For This Player
How the book Ready Player Two could be a teachable moment for the internet.
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Tuesday Tune Two-fer: Jeremy Blake (Red Means Recording)
Two tunes from an artist who showed what you can do with synthesizers and gave me calm when I needed it
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The Mandalorian Was Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience
Episode 12 of The Mandalorian, “The Siege,” was episodic TV Star Wars, and proved the rest of the series isn’t really that
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Semi-New Song Sunday: First Aid Kit
Hearing First Aid Kit for the first time makes me wish I’d grown up in their version of the 1970s, instead of the real one
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My Possession
The latest Dirty Projectors song seems as close as 2020 is going to let us get to a collective exhale.
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The October Country
Ray Bradbury’s The October Country is something I should’ve read a long, long time ago.
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Tuesday Tune Twofer: Songs for my Mother
Remembering the early 1970s, and two songs my mother liked to sing when I was a kid.