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14 reasons you should get ‘Songs for Slim’ if the whole good cause thing isn’t quite enough reason for you

It feels like it should be a sort of holy day here in the house of Jodi. I mean it’s not every day, or ever, that a new ‘Mats EP is released. There should be candles lit in reverence and maybe some genuflecting or something. I’m not entirely sure. The piano & drum intro on “Busted Up.” Also the way Paul sing sitch-ee-ation. The really smarty smartness of opening the EP which benefits Slim Dunlap with a song called “Busted…

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It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Whiny Crybaby Edition

Long about Saturday around 2 p.m. my sinuses decided to make a break for it. Since then I have spent every waking minute & some of the non-waking ones with a tiny, rabid wombat trying to escape my skull through my left eyeball. Or at least that’s what it feels like. It hurts and I would like to whine. I’ve tried the meth-grade sinus medicine, the non-meth grade, steam, Midol, and the only thing that seems to work is laying…

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The Stoned Diaries

So it’s Thursday morning. I’m intermittently making comments on Carrie’s Facebook about Gunnar’s SexVest from last night’s episode of “Nashville” (my new favorite thing), doing the occasional bits of work mentally preparing myself for the big bits of work to come, and trying to decide the soundtrack of the day. I quickly flitted from Belinda Carlisle to Ryan Adams to Sugar and finally landed on Material Issue and of course because Material Issue is brilliant and I have all kinds…

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Meatloaf, ‘Mats & Other Scandalous Details

The more time I spend writing things I make up, the more things my brain likes to make up. For instance tonight while I was making a meatloaf* I thought it would be really funny if a woman had this totally scandalous blog. Like she’d post all the time about all the men she was fucking and marriages she was destroying and other shitty things but none of her friends would ever realize it because all her blog posts had…

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It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: But not really so much with the boring edition

As I type it is 1:49 p.m. on Sunday and I am writing the traditional Sunday+Boring post because I am the very picture of modern productivity thus far today. This is made all the more stunning by the fact that I did not get out of bed until 8:50 due to a very late bedtime. So far today I have: Watched “Meet the Press” and fallen under the hypnotizing spell of Bobby Jindal’s goofy part. Made a giant brunch involving…

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Don’t be like this

It would be really easy to dismiss Sheila Heti’s “novel from life” How Should a Person Be? by claiming not to be the target audience. Or, I could say that I am unable to relate to this gaggle of apolitical artists and playwrights who seem to be affluent enough to not worry about finances and the world around them. But then I remember that when writing is good, you don’t have to be able to relate to the characters because…

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