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Postscript 2011: Christmas Is Over
Dw Dunphy ruminates over the difficulties of "living in the moment."
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The Not-At-All Ironic Case for “Love Actually”
Right off the bat, I’ll admit that I’m not a Christmas person. This season full of earwig songs, clashing colors and increasingly unnecessary shopping frenzy leaves me cold. That said, I’m a staunch defender
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A Proposed Track Listing for Chicago’s Next Stupid Christmas Album
Someone asked for this. We need to find and punish them
Read More »The Friday Linkfest: 1/7/11
The Internet moves fast. Here are some of our favorite links from the week that was: 2010′s best unsigned acts — well, okay, some of them, anyway [Something Else!] They are called Fort Wilson
Read More »Wandering the Aisles, Vol. 3: A Steaming Pile of Grinch
Every holiday season, dozens of writers attempt to trivialize the holiday season through popular culture. Chestnuts like It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and A Christmas Story are stretched in order to
Read More »The Friday Linkfest: 12/23/10 (Special Holiday Thursday Edition)
The Internet moves fast. Here’s a fond look back at our favorite links from the last seven days: AM, Then FM wraps up its “12 Days of Christmas” with a holiday mp3 bonanza [AM,
Read More »Farkakte Film Flashback: Off-Kilter Christmas Movie Edition
When I was a kid, every year around this time I would watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. I did this despite the fact that critics regularly put this 1964 movie on their list
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 9
We’ve got a ton more from the letter C this week, as we take a look at the songs that hit the rock charts in the ’80s but never crossed over to the Billboard
Read More »Bootleg City: The Cars in Houston, September ’84
Back in the mid- to late ’80s, before Bob Marley, David Byrne, and I had even met the eventual mayor of Bootleg City, otherwise known as Robert “The Eventual Mayor of Bootleg City” Cass, we went
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