The Bluebird Sessions: Lester Bangs, Where the Hell Have You Been, Man?
First, there was rock ‘n’ roll. And then there was Lester Bangs, a one-man-fan-machine who taught rock ‘n’ roll to give a damn about itself. Consider what you’re about to read a love story between a man and his music.
Because this word should be in the dictionary— Vacation Preparation Jamais Vu
1. The strong sense that you have no idea how to pack your bags and put yourself on a plane to get to the destination of your vacation even though you have been on vacation before:
The Marriage Interpreter (No. 25) (With Pictures!)
The Husband: If gangs could, you know, solve mysteries instead of fighting, then everything would be all right! Like the Sharks and the Jets, if they could just solve mysteries as a gang, like a gang of mystery solvers, instead of dancing and stabbing, then the world would be… less full of holes. And therefore less mysterious. But I can’t explain that part yet. (Looks into the distance.) It has something to do with snacks. Snacks as a goal.
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5-Minute Dance Party [Thomas Aquinas]
History AND philosophy AND a catchy tune from the ’80s?
I know. It’s almost too great.
Ode to a Writer, Immersed
You read Virginia Woolf. You read Hermann Hesse.
You swim, word-weighted,
through the aqueous shadows
of a late afternoon.
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Dancing, When I Ought to Be Writing
Um…. Yeah. Yeah, it’s kinda like that. Photograph by Courtenay Bluebird.
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5-Minute Dance Party [When They Fight, They Fight]
And when they come home, they say—
I love you, baby.
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