According to Goodreads, I read 65 books this year. According to me I finished 60 books and quite five for various reasons most of them having to do with boredom. After about 88 seconds of…
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The Best Things Ever: An Abridged List* by Someone Who Hasn’t Really Left the House Since 2014
I haven’t gone totally cockoo for Cocoa Puffs (yet). The boring and achey back injury really amped up the angry hermitude. It’s hard to leave the house when you can barely leave the couch. Don’t…
A Few of My Favorite Lyrics from 2014
She spoke to me and provoked my band, and I broke in two in the heat of her hand. from “Summer Noon” by Tweedy. The first part of this line puzzles me. How did she…
The Disarming Charm of ‘Rockin’ Here Tonight,’ Another 2013 Favorite
I’ve been thinking a lot about the songwriting of Slim Dunlap vs the songwriting of Paul Westerberg over the past month since the release of Rockin’ Here Tonight, the compilation to benefit the replacement Replacement….
My 2nd Favorite Album of 2013 Probably Didn’t Come Out in 2013
I decided right now that I’m going to write about my favorite albums and/or songs of 2013. I already started last week with Jason Isbell’s “Southeastern”, which is, I repeat, the best album to be…
Arbitrary Number of Reasons Jason Isbell’s ‘Southeastern’ is My Favorite Record of 2013
For the first time in very many years, I could probably make a Top 10 list of Favorite Albums of 2013 and not only would it actually have ten albums on it, they’d all be…
My Favorite Reads of 2011
Just like many pop culture nerds, I too like to impost arbitrary rules on any list I make. I think it imbibes the list with some significance, importance, or something else that lists of crap…
Wrapped up in Books 2007, Part II
You can read Wrapped up in Books 2007, Part I, where I talked about books with a Twin Cities connection and the best short story collections. Here I am gonna tell you about a few…
Wrapped up in books 2007, Part I
One of the resolutions I made last night was to read more books and watch less TV. I only managed to read a paltry 47 books last year. Pathetic. So this year I’m giving myself…