I’m liveblogging, along with several other Iowa Independent folks, over there. It is shaping up to be an exciting night.
Sen. Hillary Clinton will unveil her new call-and-response gimmick — “Turn Up The Heat!” — perhaps in an effort to steal thunder from Sen. Barack Obama’s “Fire It Up! Ready To Go!” Both campaigns [...]

Help me pick a new Facebook picture! Because my current one makes me look like kind of a tool! (It was originally ironic.) Here are the choices:

So I’m in So-Fla after my two-day journey through Middle America (In chronological order: Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Tennessee again, Georgia again, Florida). I did some soul searching in southern Illinois and Kentucky, but mostly I got to know some music that I hadn’t yet given fair listens (or, at least, that I [...]

Fans of this web site might enjoy The Jet Plus!, a project I’m working on with Jordan and (hopefully) a few other friends. We’re going to be hip and cool and special in many ways, and we might want you to help us out. If you’d like to write on pop cultural matters [...]

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Private concerts are cool. Kind of. But they also make me feel bad. Kind of.
Some bands deserve to draw bigger crowds than they get. Some bands that are going to SXSW in a day deserve to draw more people than one of their parents, a humble concert critic and his friend, [...]

Moses, Mears –
Tree trunk, train tracks.
Mears perseveres.