But, but, but … Usually the play stadiums. And this time they played a club!

Marc and Kyle
thanks for saving me the time of reading your reviews/articles in the future.

Argh! No!
Do Yiddish first.

The Bleeding Heart Show
New Pornographers

Failed RollingStonesy?

And yet, "Rolling Stone" gives it five stars
You have to wonder if those guys could get any more out of touch. They're like the print version of the Grammys at this point. U2 cover one week, Springsteen the next, Dylan the week after that, rinse, lather, repeat.

And I yours, Hal.

Are you suggesting that Rogers & Hammerstein don't rock?

Oklahoma
Is a lot cooler than I realized.

Symptomatic of other problems. Indicative of an overall mindset.

Or, instead of all that, she could just leave the 30 minutes of frog off the end of the album.

Abe, "Furnace Room" is great as well. Having spent a lot of time in Tacoma, "Thrice All American" and "South Tacoma Way" are faves.

"Blacklisted" is SO underrated. Number two for me, after Fox, so we disagree on that one, I guess.

I'm a big Neko Case fan,
but this is her fourth, maybe fifth, best record. Closing the record with 30 minutes of frogs and crickets isn't "untethered," it's self indulgent. That track should be renamed "Jumping the Shark." It would continue the animal motif.

Modell -
Name your price for the Baumer trophy.

I didn't read it at all, I admit, but knowing he also wrote hardcore crime fiction wouldn't have changed my mind regarding that decision.

We get so little book coverage on the site …
… that when we do, could we have something other than fantasy? There's a new Flannery O'Connor bio I'd like to hear more about.

"Behind." I don't even know HOW to throw my support "around" something.

I'm reading "The Twenty-Seventh City" right now, and so throw my support around St. Louis.

Also, Portland. I might actually rather do it in Portland.