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...conscious 17-year-olds is as much a mystery as why your author has taken the time to read it all, but he’s not the only one. The main changes to the Wikipedia article which earned it its ‘disputed’ label were made by a “a current student” trying to dispel the “common misperception…that schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Stanford are pretty much interchangeable with Harvard.” (Harvard, he or she suggested, is in fact far better.)We also...
There is a simple principle here. The message of Jesus was always to ignore the stereotype, the label, the identity--in order to observe the soul beneath, how a person actually behaves. One of his most famous parables was that of the Good Samaritan, a man who belonged to a group despised by mainstream society. But it was the despised man who did good, while all the superficially respected people walked on by. Jesus consorted with all of society's undesirables--with tax collectors, collaborators with an occupying power, former prostitutes, lepers. His message was that God's grace knows...
...wall perspective, Tyler's work really blossoms, so to speak, in the final third of the book. Created mostly after her child-rearing duties wound down, the colors explode and the work becomes more poetic, but still real and funny. One standout piece, called "My American Labels" (which also appears in Roadstrips, a fine new anthology of American cartoonists published by Chronicle Books) reads as a series of long panels designed to be affixed over cans of beans. Each label, "Wooden House," "Cone Drip," "Panting Dog," etc., contains a meditation on being an American as well as the pleasures...
Released to little fanfare on a label previously known for experimental electronica, “Beautiful Seizure” is a serendipitous indie debut, even if few songs lend themselves to OC soundtracks and sobby mixtapes...
...town, saw Semisonic for free, left. Problem? Semisonic was opening for Wilco, and the show that Tweedy & co. played is now immortalized in musical consciousness as the high point of rock and roll freedom for a band that was in the middle of a war against an evil record label. It’s in a documentary, it was so good. And I left because it was hot outside. And it didn’t even cost anything, thereby invalidating your Steamroller Hypothesis. Second time was October of 2003. The Strokes came to town. I didn?...