"You were, yes. She's dead."

Hence the reviewer's phrase "blunt allegories."

"Musically advanced" is my problem with Radiohead in a nutshell. They're always advancing, advancing someplace. As if that were the purpose of being in a band. It's exhausting.

After that, it says

This is really embarrassing for this site. On some scandal-mongering, take-things-out-of-context, sensationalistic site, you expect it.

I watch this show, but its entire ethos has always seemed unremittingly bourgeois to me, and I don't even use that word much.

Does this mean we have to go bomb somebody who wasn't responsible for it?

Yeah I came on this comments section to ask that too.

There were hipsters, by that name, by 1985. I remember being in conversations with people saying "the hipsters can't decide whether to move to Williamsburg or Hoboken," (We know how that turned out.) The word was in frequent use in the 80s and meant just what it means now.

Agreed. They'd put Mussolini on if they thought it would help their sorry asses.

Thanks for the link. I read the piece, but I found the argument pretty murky. And it also seemed self-serving. This guy is a genre-fiction writer who is declaring the inevitable historical triumph of genre fiction.

I'd add the Coates book too. But slim pickings otherwise.

Genre fiction, pop-culture books, and writing by celebrities. Where's the serious literature?

I'm living proof headline is not true.

If I could not watch Saturday Night Live any more than I do already, I would.

I just listened to the new song "1/2 2 P" by The I Don't Cares which is a band composed of Juliana Hatfield and Paul Westerberg,

They are junk.

Well I love the song but if you hate the album version, try this:

As far as albums go, I put "Sorry Ma" right up there in the first tier with the three mid-career monuments.

Well, as Westerberg has himself said, it's his most misunderstood song. He wrote it for his sister, who was a flight attendant.