July 2010
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Music Again
Okay, so here’s the thing. I spent several years, primarily in college, being a total music snob. I refused to listen to Top 40, and turned my nose at anything that was considered “mainstream”. I would go to ridiculously bad Ska concerts in basements of smoky bars, and considered myself to be a really awesome connoisseur of music. Even now, my kneejerk reaction to mainstream...
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Go East, Young Man!
There are a lot of things wrong with what went down yesterday, just like there are a lot of things that went wrong the night that Oscar Grant was killed. Whether or not you believe Johannes Mehserle’s claim that what happened that night was accidental, there is no excuse for the behavior that took place in the days following the incident, and there is no excuse for what happened in...