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Tim Marchman
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Overwatch and Skyrim. As a console player getting mods is like staring into the face of God. Read more

He certainly wasn’t better than either but he was wonderful and Virgin Soil is one of the funniest books ever written. Read more

It’s great! It’s on Spotify as The Complete Town Hall Concert; it’s extremely messy but it will get you in a new Mingus phase. Read more

One is a pinnacle of artistic achievement in my opinion; the other is a movie where Buster Keaton did a really intricate stunt. Read more

You know, Mingus enthusiasts tend to talk about it as a disaster, but for messy-but-ambitious Mingus records I prefer his Town Hall concert over The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. Read more

I saw this trailer when I took my kid to see Dr. Strange and literally hopped in our staff chat to be like “GUYS I JUST SAW A GRITTY POWER RANGERS TRAILER WITH HAUNTING MUSIC” Read more

It’s not either/or. These are great groups to give to and your local DV shelter, soup kitchen, or literacy program can certainly also use your money and especially your time. [dick joke] Read more

This is true but the criticism here is about the organization ruling things out from the get-go; that’s bad both substantively and in terms of leverage. Read more

The photo accompanying Ballard’s excellent story, which everyone should click through to and read, suggests that Hinkie is aging like a president. Read more

Like Tim Burke, when I was a teen the internet was essentially a way to get guitar tabs. The especially good ones were the ones that stripped complex songs down to four chords and/or featured kludged-together notation so that you could say play the “pretty parts” of semi-obscure Clash songs. A little bit later, the Read more

I’m sure he wouldn’t, but that’s still the logical implication of what he’s saying here. You can get into all the very real stylistic and substantive reasons why the Democratic Party has failed to reach white, religious, rural Americans without more or less saying, “Let’s tamp down on all the messaging about Read more

Feinberg and I were kicking around potential CNN chyrons no worse than the one up above that I don’t feel comfortable putting in public even clearly tagged as jokes. Read more

He got the big picture right but was consistently doing the rough equivalent of bunting with his clean-up hitter with a 3-2 count and two outs/passing on 4th and 30, which you just can’t have if it’s leading to degrading losses. Read more