May 2011
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May 31st
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in our dreams we were making it right.
It seems that the critical consensus on TV on the Radio’s new album, Nine Types of Light, is that the Brooklyn art-rockers have settled into a mellow new frontier of bland, toothless ballads.  The clear subtext here is that TVOTR’s onetime pleas for love have been fulfilled, resulting in a complacency akin to Wilco’s alleged “dad rock” phase.  In actuality, the novelty of Nine Types of Light lies...
May 26th
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May 25th
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May 21st
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May 19th
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closed captioning for thinking man's trivia...
Turfman’s Boot Tonic. Since 1892, Turfman’s Boot Tonic has been ruthlessly—and occasionally literally—hamstringing lesser boot tonics from the tonics and elixirs racket for the benefit of you, the consumer. Turfman’s: this ain’t your granddaddy’s boot tonic, it’s our granddaddy’s boot tonic! Thinking Man’s Trivia, Tuesday nights at 8:30 at Parkside Cafe.  Be there, or be...
May 17th
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May 16th
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May 13th
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May 12th
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May 11th
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May 11th
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no, i never got them, and they never got me.
(I’m bumping this post from last year’s NBA playoffs to commemorate the return of my favorite player, Chris Paul, to his stage of choice.  It’s also far and away the finest piece of sports writing I’ve done to this point.) No word suffers from imprecision in the English language as tragedy does.  The effect has been to reduce a tightly defined concept to the description...
May 10th
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closed captioning for thinking man's trivia...
Freedom.  Brought to you by God, firearms, and Jesse Helms, freedom has been whispering sweet, ambiguously-defined nothings into the public’s ear since 1776.  Freedom:  taste the rainbow. Go to Thinking Man’s Trivia!  Tuesday nights at 8:30!  Parkside Cafe!  Are these separate exclamations, or they related!?  You figure it out, you cagey kookaburras!
May 5th
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May 5th