Don’t forget the joker!
Deep Cuts: Songs For Jokes (Or Jokers)
Deep Cuts: Songs For Breaking Stuff
Breaking stuff gets a bad rap. When music breaks through my crusty exterior and exposes my gooey nougat center, I may be uncomfortable for a few minutes but inevitably I’m grateful. Feeling […]
On Diffuser: 19 Years Ago — Wilco Venture Off the Beaten Alt-Country Path With ‘Being There’
Okay, where are my Wilco fans?
Deep Cuts: Your Airlines Suck Playlist
People, I implore you. What have we allowed to happen to air travel?
Jeff Tweedy, Davis, California 12/11/2013
Jeff Tweedy’s performance at UC Davis’s Mondavi Center was so delicate that I was afraid I was going to break it — like fresh snow, so clean and perfect. Every step I […]
Deep Cuts, Reader’s Choice Edition: Laura B.
Laura B. is the kind of reader who writers dream about: enthusiastic, supportive, engaged. Maybe that’s because her career involves books, or maybe it’s simply that she’s a bright and interesting human […]
45. As Deep As Any Ocean, As Sweet As Any Harmony
I don’t know why my mother thought that I would enjoy Summer Science Camp, but it meant two weeks living in the Clemson University dorms so I was game. She dropped me […]
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