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...ultimately that is Bird’s goal. He says it best as the interview draws to a close: assuming the voice of the Incredibles’ suit designer Edna Mole, he belts out in his most nasal pseudo-Euro accent, “I hope you enjoy the movie, dahling...
...when the Brasco mole surfaced and indictments fluttered like ticker tape around the Bonanno family, Massino lammed it to the Pocono Mountains. He lived out of a suitcase, using the alias Joseph Russo, and spent weekends with a mistress at lakeside resorts, court records say. After several years, he turned himself in and twice stood trial, in '86 and '87. At the first one, he was found guilty of labor racketeering, along with then boss Rastelli and Teamsters from Local 814, and spent five years in prison. It was while he was there, when Rastelli died of natural causes...
...morph. For her wondrous meditations on genetic engineering, it's only natural that she has spawned a mutant medium. Here Piccinini is represented by her Venice Biennale video, Plasmid Region, 2003, which shows a magnified plasmid cell slowly reproducing. How to love her offspring, including her often photographed "siren mole," is a question her deeply disturbing work raises...
...International Small Arms Traffic Blues” off Tallahassee. He prefaced the former with the first of many contextual asides, describing himself years ago stuck in a coma while his then-wife attempted communication, a state which he renders in the song as that of a “mole, peeking his head out from under the earth.” His delivery of “International” brought the song out of its tepid, lyric-dependent existence on the album. Slowing down the pace and varying his intonation gave extra weight to the over-wrought lyrics...
...concept album or not. Some images recur (cargo ships in a harbor, broken electrical equipment, unearthed specters) but add up to nothing. Darnielle’s Homeric similes of albums past are gone, and the only extended metaphor—“I am a mole,” from the song “Mole”—fails to make parallels beyond a loose association to the mole’s shy peeking out from underground...