First of all, see the movie with an audience somehow. I once won a student video award and saw the piece at an awards ceremony. There is no feeling in the world like telling a joke in a video, editing the hell out of the piece so that all spontaneous joy is gone, then showing it to an audience a couple of months later…

Savannah is one smart woman. She used to do strong political interviews.

Closer…

You're getting close…

"Do you agree with Marbury vs. Madison? No, you may not phone a friend."

I thought you were going to write something about "a hole in the ground."

Killing O'Reilly.

Most people vote for emotional, not logical, reasons. Those West Virginia miners were sure that Trump could relate to them, and vice versa.

What kind of clown are you?

Considering the "Gotta Dance" sequence in Singin' in the Rain…yeah!

I was ready to comment ironically on this topic, but that paragraph about Hemingway is perfect. Solnit is invited to my next imaginary cultural icon cocktail party.

Neil Young was right.

Yeah, McLachlan's the sad-eyed living goddess embodiment of The Band's Lonesome Susie - so sad you could fall in love, because what else can we do?

I cannot upvote this enough (literally, stinkin' Disqus). Way to bring the story back around, Tri.

New-to-whomever - yes! I didn't like Reckoning 30 years ago, but I like Murmur today.

Fact is, new music was never really my favorite, even when I was young during the 70s and getting hit with it the first time. My love for Fleetwood Mac took me towards blues, Stevie Wonder took me towards classic soul, and Beatles took me towards, well, anything, because that's what they played. It didn't take much to…

As a young man I would have been appalled at how the memory of a musical god was being sullied. Now I realize you have to take the fun where you find it.

Yeah, I see "hip" was the wrong adjective. But I do find that era fascinating, the way the establishment tried to understand the anti-establishment (poor Elvis was in that unforgiving middle-ground). "Squares trying to be hip" is one of my favorite genres of music and movie from that time

Anyone who listens closely to their records knows that the grittier songs have more input from Oates. Hearing Sara Smile and She's Gone led me to checking out soul music more thoroughly, so I owe them some appreciation.

And Elvis shook Nixon's hand. It can be really painful when the hip and not-hip worlds collide.