You’re more than welcome. I almost never listen to music at home because I have a 45 minute drive to work, but I’ve definitely been plugging my headphones into my laptop and listening to all sorts of tunes when I get home the last two nights (much to the annoyance of my boyfriend because our DVR is getting kind of…

Because the guy who, by all accounts, Trump wants to let run the day-to-day operations is a man who believes that gay conversion therapy can cure the gay right out of them. He will absolutely try his damnedest to get gay marriage overturned, I promise you that. Pence is no ally to any community at all, except for…

Huh? Truman co-owned a clothing store, Bush co-owned the Texas Rangers, Harding owned a newspaper, I’m pretty sure Carter owned his peanut farm...

Eh, I can’t really blame you for that one, it’s not totally clear from the lyrics. I heard or read a Leonard Cohen interview years and years ago about the song, and reading the lyrics through that lens does make it a bit clearer, but I think he intentionally left it a bit ambiguous.

Rufus Wainwright “Going to a Town,” Paolo Nutini “Iron Sky,” Neko Case “I Wish I Was the Moon,” Leonard Cohen “Everybody Knows,” Bright Eyes “Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and Be Loved),” Bad Religion “American Jesus” and “Stranger Than Fiction,” REM “Everybody Hurts,” Doris Day “Que Sera, Sera,” The Smiths…

I have a friend who lives in fucking FLORIDA and voted for Gary Johnson. Guess who posted something on facebook yesterday freaking out about losing their health insurance? Cognitive dissonance at its finest.

While I find this attitude pretty infuriating in general, and certainly a generalization and an oversimplification... they do have a bit of a point about both sides pulling “either you’re 100% with us or you’re completely fucking wrong and fuck you.” Liberal elitism and arrogance IS a big problem (and this is coming…

You forgot the current reigning Worst Governor in America: Mary Fallin has been bandied about as a possible Secretary of Energy. As an Oklahoman, half of me says, “yep, gtfo of OK” and the other half is so sorry that this woman keeps failing upward.

Dance is a beautiful song, no doubt. I always find it kind of strange when people have it as their song because it’s about the Holocaust. The sentiment is still there, I suppose, and obviously it’s gorgeous, so I can’t fault it or anything.

He really was such a great lyricist, man. Those were the lyrics I put on a facebook post yesterday, but really anything would have done. “Anthem” is one of my favorites of his.

I love Rufus Wainwright (and his cover by extension). I have an “I’m pissed off and scared about the election” playlist right now that includes “Going to a Town.”

Your kid has good taste. “Frontier Psychiatrist” is the SHIT. (Also did you know that they FINALLY just put out another album recently?)

That’s an interesting thought. My boyfriend and I speculated that it may have something to do with NBA teams being so much smaller than football teams, and basketball coaches spending so much more time with their players than football coaches do. Maybe they really get to know their teams as PEOPLE, you know?

I’m white. I had plenty. (I am a woman though. And in a relationship with a man who is not white. I’ve got skin in this one.)

that... wasn’t at all what I meant.

I’m not a man, so... I just think that he was trying to say something nice, if misguided. I didn’t ask her to be nicer. But you sound dangerously close to Trump’s army of “anti-PC police” right now. You fucking grow up.

Right? Also, why does it seem like basketball coaches specifically seem so much more woke than their football coach counterparts? It’s interesting to me.

Oh man, you get the stress diarrhea too? I’m sorry - I’m definitely in the same boat since Tuesday night!

I go through this cycle where I forget about Bad Religion for a few years and then I listen to them constantly for about a month... thanks for the reminder that it’s about that time again.

Is there going to be a country left to fight for by then? I know they’re not... not all of them. But can we really afford to alienate all of them? I promise good ones exist. It’s hard to even say that with a straight face today but they do.