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...Syndrome, or JRFAS for short. Perhaps he’s trying to recapture the success of his only true breakout track, 2002’s “Are We Cuttin’.” Problem is, that song wasn’t really all that good to begin with, and Pastor Troy is better off staying true to his hardcore roots. “Well, I’m Pastor Troy, I got a license to kill / I’ll shove that .50 cal in ya mothafuckin’ grill” doesn’t sound...
...race card will not go away. At the end of “The Race Card,” we know that until we can explain what the elephant in the room actually looks like, it won’t go away. But we can’t even begin to name it, because Ford hasn’t given us a single new word to work with. And so the elephant remains in the room.—Staff writer Candace I. Munroe can be reached at cimunroe @fas.harvard.edu...
...real, and they need real help. An overemphasis on mild forms of depression and anxiety ties up resources that should be used for major mental illnesses. Some people feel blue, and some people are suicidal. When medicine starts to forget the distinction between the two, everyone loses. Healthy people begin to wonder if they truly are healthy, while the genuinely ill are trivialized...
...intact. In “Autoclave,” Darnielle’s predictable refrain is “my heart’s an autoclave,” a metaphor that gives the listener a pretty good idea of its writer’s ethos. Anyone willing to begin a phrase with “my heart is a” must be willing to dig wholeheartedly into the center of melodrama. However, the metaphor is ultimately destined for the unglamorous autoclave, used to boil and pressurize liquids in order to make them sterile. Even then, there?...
...Countries aren't the only geographical entities that try to secede, of course. Staten Island has made noises over the years about quitting New York City, an idea generally scuttled when residents realized that a lot of Manhattanites didn't know it was part of the club to begin with, and at least a few were confusing it with the little triangular island also named Staten at the southernmost tail of Argentina - which would at least explain why the ferry takes so long. Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley have similarly talked of seceding from greater Los Angeles...