Visual Coercion

Destroyer 3/18/11 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA John Darnielle of Mountain Goats Versus Chuck Ragan at Knitting Factory Tribeca 12/1/07 Another Broadcast

Chicago Grammar – Mayor for Life On the Use of the Perpetually Authoritative Case

Angel Eyes/Mayor for Life/Czar at Quenchers 8/21/10 Though, much to my detriment, I did not arrive in time to see Chicago’s Angel Eyes pull the scab off this amazing bill to get the vital essences exposed to air, I did take a face-full of rock from tone-freak virtuosos Mayor for Life, following that with a sail on the [...]

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Friedmann Space/The Rich are Different from You and Me

Fellow humans: As I gather my things to roll communal internal combustion Conestoga across the great plains of the middle western desert, I hand off to you a couple of pieces of reading material. The first is a quick review of some research done on the impact of money or social status on generosity that [...]

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Summer Living/Summer Listening

I’ve been marinating in my own musky grown-up smells with the ample help of 90 degree 100% humidity weather all summer as I work on reacquiring my foreign language skills.  My bar slouch is turning into a desk slouch. That’s where I’ve been. I have managed to listen to just a very few things since [...]

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