Sure, I’m voting for Barack Obama. But gosh, he does love that word change – so much, in fact, that I had to make my own special banner for the blog. I call it “The Zombama.”
Scroll down to see it – or hit the End key (which is not to be confused with the Apocalypse [...]

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My friend PJ is publishing an article for an Italian music magazine later this year; the article will feature interviews with musicians involved in the “shoegazing” movement of the early 1990s. He asked me to put together the magazine’s supplemental web content: an outline of the movement for those who, uh, missed it. Here’s a [...]

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(Short submission to the online creative nonfiction journal I’m putting together with my friends and 501 students next semester.)
Interesting things happen when different genres clash, as Z-Trip and Danger Mouse might be able to tell you. Much of our culture is driven by such clashes. Even cover songs, which until recently seemed to be the [...]

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I’m starting to establish a tradition of having a decent-sized birthday party every year. My birthday is January 15, so the party usually falls on the weekend before school restarts—not a bad time to have a fiesta.
One of my newer traditions is making tamales for the party. I’ve made them a few times and they’ve [...]

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