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• Unsolicited and Highly Subjective
  End-of-Decade Ten-Best List

  Except mine is twelve. And I don’t even claim that they’re the best, necessarily. In fact, I’m fairly certain that I haven’t even heard a lot of the best music that was created in the last ten years at this point. But these are the albums that got under my skin the most, the ones […]

  Posted on Dec 31.09 to Fanboy   

• I Cannot Front

  This was the greatest thing ever.

  Posted on Oct 08.09 to Fanboy   

• Jonathan Lee Riches Ponders Early Retirement

  Jonathan Lee Riches, who for the past four years has conducted from various federal prison cells one of the greatest sustained performances of legal theater the world has ever witnessed, announced in a recent filing that he is considering retiring, at least temporarily, from writing lawsuits in order to, in his words, “give my fingers […]

  Posted on Jul 28.09 to Fanboy   

• Almost All the Popular Songs Are About Love

  Giants of the 20th Century, anyone? Definitive, transcendent artists? You got your Picassos, your Nabokovs, your Bergmans. I like Joe Frank (wiki; web site; partial RealAudio archive). Here’s an excerpt from a 2000 program, Karma, Part 6, that came up on the ipod the other day and, in its mordant humor, hints at the nature […]

  Posted on Jun 23.09 to Fanboy