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This is what happens kids
update: posted some pics from the Fiery Furnaces show last night… wha happened?

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Interesting press release.
I am starting to genuinely believe this country might be on the road to a second civil war. Take a second and reflect on what is happening here. The senate and house majority leaders are the leaders of the Republican party. Within one month, both of them are or have [...]

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This review is genius.
So every time "The O.C." releases one of their mix tapes (this is #4), it’s like The Smoking Gun digging up an old crime report on the entire indie scene, blowing the cover on 1) its feelings of isolated superiority, and 2) its supposed disdain for pop music. Hell, even in my [...]

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A phrase you hear everywhere these days is "liberal elite". Conservatives have successfully used the upper middle class’s visible disdain for the great unwashed to convince red america that liberals are, as the Club for Growth put it, a "latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving… Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show". Lemme clear this up:

Blue america is largely [...]

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It was a great last few days in Tokyo. By the time we returned to the city, the Sakura had popped like crazy, and the whole city was pink. Highlights of our second Tokyo visit included the Meiji Shrine, the sword museum, the national museum, and both Yoyogi and Ueno parks to check [...]

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