On Sympathy For Jonathan Franzen
@Art Yucko Too Lana; Didn't Rey
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On Time to Bone Up on Mike Pence
Matthew Yglesias has actually made it a habit to write about this box of hair. Here's a taste:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/?p=28244
Perhaps I'm naive, but I feel that Mike Pence will strike most voters as alarmingly dumb, regardless of the hijinks GOP brass might pull in his defense.
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On Time to Bone Up on Mike Pence
Matthew Yglesias has actually made it a habit to write about this box of hair:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2008/09/mike_pence_2/
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/?p=28244
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/01/mike-pences-proposed-compromise-well-look-you-know-i-was-uh-yeah-yeah-look-uh/
Perhaps I'm naive, but I feel that Mike Pence will strike most voters as alarmingly dumb, regardless of the hijinks GOP brass might pull in his defense.
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On Is the Trailer for 'The Shining' the Actual Film?
Little Children trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiJLJd7cH1c
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On Understudies! The American Musical and Life After "Cabaret"
Also, I was wondering what people thought about "The American Astronaut," if they thought about it at all? That felt to me like a very good and brave work interested in taking the movie-musical to a new place! But I very rarely see it brought up in the larger conversation and am not sure why.
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On Understudies! The American Musical and Life After "Cabaret"
Actually, scratch that-- I think I am talking about the songbook. Because the cast recordings are often grating in ways that I imagine would be easily solved were the music attached to a different enterprise.
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On Understudies! The American Musical and Life After "Cabaret"
I can't hate HAIR-- while the story is garbage (not kidding: SO DUMB), the music is really good? Like, it's kind of astonishing? Admittedly, I have maybe a high tolerance for silly lyrics, but I can't shake the feeling that HAIR is basically a story about a gorgeous, selfless double LP hanging out with a smug, empty-headed dorkwad of a narrative even though it can do so much better, doesn't it know how special and wonderful it is? etc
Seriously, "Flesh Failures" is sublimity.
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On What It's Really Like To Be A Copy Editor
But Alicia COULD be your woman, whereas it is actually impossible for Beyonce to be a boy, if "boy" is interpreted as a specifically underage male. I thought the was/were distinction was based on the possibility of the supposition becoming fact. Am I wrong?
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On In Defense Of Boredom
tb;dr