I also hear a lot of old Modest Mouse. Which is interesting because Wolf Parade was also beholden to old MM but Sioux Falls sounds very little like Wolf Parade.

Smart move. I know everybody thinks they’re gonna play forever, but it’s never too early to start angling for a job as an analyst at ESPN once his career is over.

GG Allin and Lydia Lunch used to run a version of it on old dudes who would come down to the Village from Manhattan to creep on teenage punk girls. Allin learned it from William S Burroughs himself, who learned it in Rio. It’s like Nietzsche said: Time, it’s cyclical as fuck.

Back in the Bush/Gore/Nader menage a’ merde, I was an angry young punk rocker. I was as angry a young punk rocker who ever graduated from a small private liberal arts school and scored a job with a big insurance company a few months later, I mean. (Now I’m a social worker who fully repents of his corporate daze, but…

I liked Sanders’ answer to this question, which was a sort of grumpy “I understand being suspicious but your kid’s not gonna get my kid sick.”

The fuck are you talking about bro? Normally the Cubs have choked while it’s still warm out even in Chicago. See: June Swoon.

True story: In ‘95 I was living an uneasy triple life as a high school debate nerd/punk rock dude/mid-tier prep school lax bro. I got my ass sent home fro school (and caught all kinds of hell at home as a result) for wearing this “needlessly provocative” shirt on one of the days we were allowed to pick out our own…

I have so many strong, conflicting feelings about HRC. I understand how silly it is to have personal reactions to politicians—like every person who “wanted to have a beer with George Bush” made my blood boil—but there’s just something about Hillary I have always really liked. Ever since the 90s. She just seems sweet…

This is one Cubs fan saying “Fuck this, though.” I was willing to look past the fact that the Ricketts clan are hardcore rightwing jerkoffs, but Chapman is bona fide sleaze. I don’t think I am going to take any joy in this team’s success.

Ha ha ha @ the linked article. When even the NYT is like “Y’all are being stuck-up, casually racist fuddy-duddies,” it’s time to, like, reconsider one’s life.

I read “specifying that Swiddleston worked out separately” as “spectifying that &c &c” and I’m now claiming “spectifying” as my hot new portmanteau. It means “magnifying quotidian, mundane details about a life so that they appear to be touchstones in our Society of the Spectacle.”

“Strong words. Strong, bewildering words.”

To be fair, Biden is also a well-known plagiarist. (Much like Jay Z’s favorite boast—that shit Melania just did?— Biden’s been doing it since the 80s.)

This is a Rick Reilly type take: Scorching hot and so goddamn stupid and wrongheaded as to beggar belief.

I have a rock that keeps tigers away you can buy.

I think it’s cute when dutiful members of either political tribe in America say “we need x” or “we need to do y” as though they’re part of the tribal leadership.

“Kaine is why you’re staying in Paris? I sort of think you just want to stay in Paris and you’re looking for an excuse”

Oh relax. It was just a Bowie Tribute.