Claire! Awesome. Totally agreed.

Yes! Thank you!

AVC: Not sure whether there's enough content worth mentioning, but I saw some leaked photos from the "Lincoln" set of Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln — it's a day or so old now, I think, but maybe it's worth a Newswire post? Lots of people I know didn't seem to even realize he and Spielberg were shooting anything. I know…

Wow, I had something akin to an anxiety attack less than 20 minutes in. Several live DLM shows lately have done that to me — the second Austin one was so uncomfortably out of Doug's control that I didn't finish it. I'm glad AVC threw that Anthone Jeselnik quote on there, because I'm still laughing about it days later.…

@Lovecraft You could be correct. I'm taking this from an old interview, so who knows? He often goes back and forth on his songwriting and has famously contradicted himself before, that's why I tried to stay safe by saying "claimed."

I'm glad to see "No Children" in the comments. Darnielle has claimed that only one of his songs in TMG's entire catalogue ("You're in Maya") is autobiographical, but the way he sings about the Alpha couple (see: Tallahasse. Holy crap.) he seems to "get it" on a suspiciously accurate level. Even what he calls his "love…