This is the time of every year that “This is Just a Modern Rock Song” becomes my favorite Belle and Sebastian song. (Taking over from “Lazy Line Painter Jane” or “The Boy With the Arab Strap,” which rule at other times.) Because now that summer is all-but-technically kaput, and we can finally put the Great Shorts Debate behind us, at least for another seven or eight months, I most often find myself pulling on a pair of corduroy pants in the morning (or, well, in the afternoon or at night, whenever it is that I finally get myself out of the house), an occasion upon which I can’t help but hum the chorus to this great, great, terrific song, which I think is actually more like just the ninth verse, because the song is basically all verse (but I don't know so much about musical theory), where the words go, “This is just a modern rock song/This is just a sorry lament/We’re four boys in our corduroys/We’re not terrific but we’re competent.” Because that internal “four-boys/corduroys” rhyme is so brilliant. And because I’m putting on corduroys. READ MORE

What's new in Jersey Mayhem? Oh, "Police: Keansburg woman threw storm door window pane at officer." That's interesting. The Asbury Park Press reports that, while resisting arrest on an outstanding warrant, 42-year-old Valerie L. Wiggs attacked Keansburg police officer Tiffanie Dill. First with a bag of groceries, then: "Wiggs bolted from the officer, then removed the window pane from her door and threw it at Dill's face, but the officer managed to turn and the window hit her in the back, police said." Wiggs locked herself inside her apartment until more police arrived and kicked down her door. The she was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes (the grocery bag?), unlawful possession of a weapon (the storm window?), obstruction and disorderly conduct. Officer Dill declined medical attention.