Why Yo La Tengo’s ‘This Stupid World’ Could Be Your New Favorite Album
: Yo La Tengo can be a band that makes you work before you get it. The full listening experience requires intention. There’s friction. The effort is always worth it, though, with something new revealing itself with every spin. And while they have some songs that could broadly be classified as singles, this band’s work is…
The 5 Latest Additions to My Record Collection
Another “little bit of everything” edition Here’s to great teachers! My son has photography as an elective this semester, and his class took a field trip downtown last week. Remember when we’d get excited to see a teacher roll a TV in on a cart, and it was movie day? You knew you could just relax…
Bloomington Indiana: On this day in 1954, a baby was born to an ophthalmologist and teacher. Almost from the word go, the child showed an interest in art-especially music & the radio. He was also hyper. Like, really hyper — enough so that his parents referred to it as “monkey hour,” and sent him to a psychiatrist…
23.July.2021
“It’s easy to go somewhere and win a championship with somebody else … this is the hard way to do it and we did it.” ~Giannis Antetokounmpo A huge part of the larger discourse of late has been the rise of social media, and the influence it has on the populace. There is no shortage of…
09.July.2021
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” — Marie Curie When I was a kid, my dad traveled often for business. He’d come home with the usual souvenirs he probably grabbed at the airport (my dresser was full of “Visit New Hampshire” type shirts) and would tell us about the cool places…
02. July.2021
When I first moved to the Midwest I found an apartment that had one of those wall-mounted heater/AC units you see in hotels. I thought I was getting a steal. Growing up in Portland, a lot of people didn’t have A/C. It rarely really gotthat hot, so it never occurred to me that this was standard…
04. June.2021
Several orders of magnitude more than what you’d need Michigan’s Porcupine Mountains. Photo by author. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” — Mary Anne Radmacher I assure you I’m not turning this into a “tales from the office” sort of…
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