Tag: essay
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Listen to Fleet Foxes when the leaves are at their peak
As most bands I listen to, my dad was the one who first introduced me to Fleet Foxes—I learned from the best. Like all providential music discoveries in the early 2000s, his sister’s friend included it on a CD mix that she then gifted to him. I grew up listening to that same CD in…
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Ode to Yahoo Answers
What was Yahoo Answers? That’s a good question. Yahoo Answers was a different kind of library. Libraries are often glorified as the sum of all human knowledge; Yahoo Answers was the sum of all human ignorance. Libraries are full of vetted, edited, tweaked, bought and sold words. Yahoo Answers’ words were picked straight from the…
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Colin’s Column: Is Vampire Weekend’s Self-titled the Most “College” Album Ever?
For some reason or another, I have fallen into a Vampire Weekend rabbit hole recently. I know I might be getting a little old for that, but hey, I can’t help it. Even if I don’t cuff my pants anymore, there’s no escaping the indie kid within me. At first, I was not sure exactly…