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Archive for September 5th, 2008

Liz Phair digs Boston

Men are evil. That is the message I expected to take away from my first Liz Phair concert experience after plunking down thirty bucks to see her perform at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club last Saturday night. After all, isn’t that simple notion the essence of feminism, the only true antidote to the oppressive patriarchy, the […]


Dumb preview, smart movie

Every once in a while, a person is lucky enough to see a preview for a movie which so lowers their expectations, that when they actually see the film, they love it. For me, that movie was Tropic Thunder. Ben Stiller, the co-writer, producer, director, and star of the film, advertised the hell out of […]


For Nina, Maybe

Well, someone has to smoke the world’s cigarettes, to leave little ash droppings to lead us out of the wilderness – a little nothing, a little boredom, so we can lean on buildings looking good while the prophets pray for the days of fire and fat. But in the meantime let’s let the gaps stay […]


Or the Singer to His Song

Sleep, a Painting It is time to turn against the night and draw the world within my palms, to set the crutch which holds the sky above the moon and silver beach. My gaze is fixed upon the shore where dense waves crash and sound no more. There are songs unheard in the ocean’s roar, […]


The Museum’s Survivor

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