It was a long, long trip on a long, long train back from Pennsylvania today. Got home – famished and exhausted – dropped the bags, walked deliriously to a favorite restaurant, and dined. A glass of wine in my tired brain later, I heard from an accompanying table: No, no, get this
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A mind-searing epic of beauty, 1991’s Loveless is an album that, in itself, spawned thousands of bands, and changed the face of music in so very many ways, in so many ways to have reached an undeniably legendary status. Songs that can somehow compress no fewer than forty
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Wallace was clean and freshly showered. He adjusted the speed on the cruise control to an even sixty and stared out the window at the rows of cattails growing on the side of the turnpike. Through their tawny, rowed communities he could see New York approach from the east, a
Pakistan warns of lawless bloodbath as Taliban deserts Kabul. As Taliban leave, men shave, light up, and watch Titanic. No evidence of terrorism in crash of American Airlines Flight 587. U.S. agents were told to back off from investigating the bin Ladens before September 11. Stimulus package proves to
This morning I went to my favorite local coffee shop for a bagel and some (okay, a lot of) coffee. I was distressed to find this newly posted sign in the seating area: Seeking musicians, bands, ect [sic], for the XXXX cafe’s mall lounge in the mini-mall beside
