Inside Outside Lands: Friday
Aug13

Inside Outside Lands: Friday

  Our west coast correspondent braved the clouds of rain, dust, and funky cigarette smoke at this past weekend’s music and arts festival in San Francisco. For some reason, I can’t wrap my head around festival punctuality. The concept of showing up on time for a multi-act concert is foreign to me. Last year, I thought it would be an okay idea to go to work on the first day of Sasquatch, only to sit in traffic on Snoqualmie Pass...

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Children, Place Nice
Aug06

Children, Place Nice

Let’s imagine a hypothetical situation for a moment. Let’s say you have a job that allows you to work from home from time to time, and on this particular day, you’re trying to meet a deadline on some sort of project. Now let’s say you were on the phone with your hypothetical sister the day before and agreed to let her drop off your two hypothetical nephews at your home today for a couple of hours so she could take care of a few...

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A Step in the Right Direction
Jul31

A Step in the Right Direction

  There are two distinct phases of my life that I believe have shaped my world view entirely. The first was my final two years of high school, where instead of doing classic teenager things like smoking blunts behind the cafeteria or trying desperately to get laid, I was heavily involved with my church, leading retreats, organizing youth group meetings, and serving as an altar boy right as the priest sexual abuse scandal was...

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Crowd Sourced: The Postal Service at the Greek Theatre
Jul29

Crowd Sourced: The Postal Service at the Greek Theatre

Most of the time, it’s all about the music. But sometimes in the realm of live concerts, the venue can be just as much of a draw as the acts that inhabit it. The beauty of Red Rocks in Colorado or The Gorge in Washington state, for example, are both more than capable of enhancing the experience of a set for both the crowd and the performers themselves. In my relatively frequent relocations in the past eighteen months, I’ve had the...

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Duchess Catherine and the Half-Blood Prince
Jul23

Duchess Catherine and the Half-Blood Prince

Like, ZOMG, guys! Kate and William had their baby! Well, mostly Kate, William just watched. They named him Beetlejuice Casablanca, a tribute to the couple’s favorite movies. His first word was “remontant”, spoken after downing a gallon of royal breast milk while simultaneously signing autographs for his adoring fans. He then moonwalked to Pluto in honor of Michael Jackson, who said from Heaven, “That man is tight at dancing!” …...

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A Dzhokhar, A Smoker, A Midnight Toker
Jul22

A Dzhokhar, A Smoker, A Midnight Toker

  The initial outrage has passed but the fury continues to smolder over Rolling Stone’s latest cover choice, one that placed the image of an incarcerated terrorist in a spot normally reserved for scantily-clad pop starlets and guitar heroes. The backlash was instantaneous, occurring primarily in obscenity-laden vitriol posted by users on the magazine’s website and Facebook page, but also drawing substantial attention from...

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