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It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Avoiding the Internet Edition

Last night when the soul-crushing verdict came in regarding the murder of Trayvon Martin, I shut it all down. While I can handle the cries of outrage and promises to enact change, I cannot handle the faux-moaralizing some people do without actually taking a stand on anything. I seem to know a lot of these kind of people on Facebook. Basically, I cannot stand people who always want to ride both sides of the fence. Fucking take a chance, express…

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Some Observations From Last Night’s Dylan/Wilco Concert

Last night I journeyed to lovely St. Paul, MN to see the festival with 14,000 other people. Generally, I am not a Jam Rock fan but the tickets went on sale when it was snowing, and the last time I was at Midway was in the 90s when Wilco opened for REM, and the heavens opened up as Michael Stipe started “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” and nobody who was there has ever forgotten it…

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It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: All the Boringness You’ve Come to Expect Edition

Today started with a walk for Walter and then some grocery shopping. Since a majority of my family was going to be in other states, I was going to make my own delicious family dinner, a dinner that required more than the lawn clippings & kohlrabi I’d gotten from the CSA. (oh, aside: as I type there’s an episode of “Austin City Limits” on featuring The Decemberists, which is pretty awesome) I went to Cubs (which we always call Cubs…

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Beautifully Unique Shallowponies

Hoo, did I struggle with Chris Kluwe’s new book of essays, Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities. Kluwe, as you probably know, is the quick-witted, sharp-tongued, outspoken NFL player who catapulted to the forefront of popular culture last year when he wrote a wildly-popular letter to a Maryland politician about gay marriage. Kluwe stayed in the headlines with his unabashed and unending support for marriage equality, even resigning his position as a St. Paul…

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The Enduring Insight of Travis Birkenstock

There is a scene in the movie “Clueless” where Travis Birkenstock makes a crack about how “The way I feel about The Rolling Stones is how my kids are going to feel about Nine Inch Nails.” Travis’ keen observation flashed through my head this morning when I heard Metric’s “Gimme Sympathy” on The Current. And it’s really only keen in the way of thinking about the impact the bands of your time will have on you rather than the bands…

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It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: The Veggie Veg Veg Edition

I’m the kind of hermit who gets increasingly anxious and angry when forced to be social too many days in a row. And my definition of social is: speaking to humans with my mouth. By my count I have had to talk to humans every single day since the last episode of It’s Sunday & I’m Boring. Summer is exhausting. Today, however, was my day to rest, re-set, and re-charge, and I started to the day out right at the…

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