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Drunk Napoleon Listens To Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan’s Dreams

January 14, 2019

Nightmares, hopes, and I'm half-asleep.

Year of the Month

“In the Year 2000!” and Conan O’Brien

January 2, 2019

Conan looks to the future and goes beyond.

Year of the Month

Something’s Gone Wrong Again: Buzzcocks, Singles Going Steady

December 21, 2018

While not as popular or acclaimed as some of their peers, Buzzcocks' work is just as vital, and this hits collection is the best representation of it

Year of the Month

This Ain’t No Disco: Talking Heads, Fear of Music

December 15, 2018

Talking Heads' third album is where the band's synthesis of influences bloomed into something new, unique, and artist-defining

The Sopranos, Six Months On

December 10, 2018

My feelings on the show six months after I finished watching it for the first time.

Disney Byways

“Goofy and Wilbur”

December 7, 2018

The first-ever solo Goofy cartoon, featuring what would later be declared one of Jiminy Cricket's relatives.

Drunk Napoleon Listens To Bob Dylan: Songs For Greta Gerwig

December 3, 2018

Bob Dylan somehow covers his own songs.

Year of the Month

We are standing on the edge: Radiohead, OK Computer

November 28, 2018

One of the most heralded albums of the 1990s holds up both musically and in its anxiety about our digital future

Taco Break

The discipline not to write setting: The Shield and The Order of the Stick

November 23, 2018

Comparing two stories that succeed not through worldbuilding, but by focusing on character and action

Five Golden Age antiheroes walk into a bar

November 12, 2018

What if five of the antiheroes of the Golden Age of television met in a bar?