Amazing how I’ve made it all this way, and yet I still haven’t bothered to explain what the format of my blog is actually going to look like. Are you ready? Do you really think you’re ready? Are to ready to learn what radically bold and bracingly new format is this radically bold and bracingly […]
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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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