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"With a sky blue sky/this rotten time/Wouldn't seem/So bad to me now." Ah, Wilco. Always there for me.

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As Morrissey once sang, "It's not my home it's their home and I'm wanted no more." And now it's happening to me...

Aug 5

The HBO Max series undergoes the Two Episode Test.

Aug 2

Wherein we are "halfway to the fucking Kort nozzle," people, as we grapple with the existential pain and humor deeply embedded in "Patriot" S1. Don't…

Aug 1

End of the vacation (if that was actually a vacation). A poll or four. A very bad movie. A little music. Walkabouts. "The Gray Man." Great lyrics. A…

Jul 27

Wherein we see the collapse of a man. And folks get the blues. An unbearable weight in two soundly sad episodes.

Jul 24

Man about town.

Jul 20

Wherein our "Patriot" watch leads us to a sad man in a suit, some great Leslie anger, some more sneaky backstory and a folk tent at the EDM festival…

Jul 18

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