On Why Can't Nigel Spell?
@AM That, and "secretaries have secrets"
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On New York Writer for Left-Wing Website Is Also Homosexual
@zidaane I believe it was the Observer 2008 New Hampshire primary road trip, no?
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On Nostalgia Is Not New
@LondonLee Not pedantic! Of course you're right! I spent too much time on that remembering exactly what I used to get in trouble for. But I mean, it was also true of Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Cure, Bauhaus or Love and Rockets, Echo and the Bunnymen, for me. (They all continued into the 80s and in some cases beyond.)
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On Nostalgia Is Not New
@Matthew Nielsen@twitter When I was in college (1990-1994) I'd get yelled at for putting on Joy Division or Bauhaus or The Jam, I think because even though they WERE 80s they weren't EIGHTIES enough. And The Clash and U2 and The Beastie Boys were consumed and played universally without any irony, because they were just ... still around. Our nostalgia parties were full of music the people in the room actually had recently disliked. Or else disco.
Irresponsibly and recklessly anecdotally: I think there is an element of the outre in early nostalgia, and more earnestness in later nostalgia. Like, Culture Club (the place Bry talks about) was all about the bad stuff. The good stuff didn't come back til circa 2000. So: 10 years for the excesses and the bad stuff, a ritual washing away; 20 years for the "don't you wish" and the re-creations that dig deep into the back-catalog. (I mean did I meet another person who knew of The Pop Group in NY City who was my age until 2000?)
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On No One Knows How to Get to JFK from Williamsburg (OR DO THEY?)
@LloydBraun Time of day? I used to live at Metro & Flushing and take the Q54 all the time to Forest Hills (do not ask!) and found the 54 to be AWESOME except when it SUCKED. Weekend days suck on Metro. Ave as soon as you get into the Queens part.
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On Album By Metal Band Or Female Singer/Songwriter?
Without doing any research whatsoever, something tells me "Siouxsie and the Banshees (both)" might be a surprisingly serviceable alternate answer to many of these, too; no?
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On Best Movie Closing Songs, In Order
"Season of the Witch" at the end of To Die For, with Illeana Douglas ice skating on the lake where Nicole Kidman's body has been dumped!
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On The Missing Part of 'Company'
@La Cieca I think we can possibly accommodate that!
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On When You May Wear a Button-Down Shirt
Maybe I'm just making excuses but I think if you are wearing a tan twill or charcoal gray "box suit" or chinos and a blazer and are intentionally trying to look a bit like you are at the Holy Cross Winter Semiformal circa 1961 you can wear a thin tie with a button-down shirt. In fact, that just all looks so sporting or whatever that a real collar just looks like you borrowed one of dad's.
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On Bunch of Newspapers About to Needlessly Hit the Skids
@RJ White@twitter I think for one thing far fewer people were familiar with the regional newspapers in Michigan. For instance this morning's announcement also affects the Birmingham News and like four other Alabama newspapers, which will be grafting onto al.com, another hot mess in the nola.com style, but nobody mentions it. For another, Katrina covers that endeared a large national audience to TP.