Amazing how I’ve made it all this way, and still haven’t bothered to explain what the format of this website is going to look like. Are you ready? Do you really think you’re ready? Top ten lists. … That’s it? That’s what he’s been building up to, with an excruciatingly detailed five-part introductory essay? Top ten
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Having thrown enough (polite?) Molotov cocktails for now, it’s time to throw out a few fluffy bread baskets. Don’t want people to assume 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 an official part-time Buddhist, this does not
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Examples of Music Writers Who I’m Pretty Sure Aren’t Part-Time Buddhists Rob Sheffield Back in 2004, on a trip to Borders, I spotted a revised edition of the Rolling Stone Album Guide. Never having found the previous editions all that useful, curiosity still got the better of me, and I proceeded, with a healthy skepticism, to
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A metaphor to describe my graduate school experience: Imagine jumping, with tremendous enthusiasm, onto a giant, spinning merry-go-round, then 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, leaving a trail of slimy residue as you did
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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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