Having thrown enough (polite?) Molotov cocktails for the time being, I think it might be time to throw out a few fluffy bread baskets. Don’t want people to assume all part-time Buddhists are just negative Nancys here. Even though I may be, as far as I know, the first pop culture writer to proclaim himself […]
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Examples of Music Writers Who I’m Pretty Sure Aren’t Part-Time Buddhists Rob Sheffield Back in 2004, on one of my ever-exciting trips to the local Borders, I wandered past a nondescript black wooden shelf when I happened to discover a revised edition of the Rolling Stone Album Guide. Never having found the previous editions particularly useful,
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Here is one final metaphor I’d like to employ to describe my graduate school experience: Imagine jumping, with tremendous enthusiasm, onto a giant, spinning merry-go-round, then very quickly being thrown off at a tremendous speed, flying across the room, landing face-first into a brick wall, and slowly sliding down that wall in a cartoon-like fashion,
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And now, let me tell you a story. ***** Once upon a time, I went to grad school. I went to grad school because I thought I wanted to become an English professor. Then I found out, by actually going to grad school, that I didn’t want to become an English professor. Let me back up a
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“Another blog about music and movies?” you ask. Why not just … pave a road with asphalt, or paint a picket fence white, or pick my nose with my finger? But this one is going to be different, you see. This one is actually going to be worth it. Well, I guess that’s not for me to decide.
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