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Episode 2: Jesus and Politics. Would Jesus vote Democrat or Republican? We discuss: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-2-jesus-and-politics/id1403217699?i=1000415270888&mt=2

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I interviewed Jeremy Enigk for The A.V. Club. Read it here: http://www.avclub.com/article/sunny-day-real-estates-jeremy-enigk-being-reluctan-241414

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Unwrapping The Mission Burrito, San Francisco’s Mysterious Culinary Creation

Our writer was way late to the Mission Burrito scene, but once he finally tried one he fell deeply in love.

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Read about my experience with a fortune teller here: http://uproxx.com/life/tarot-reading-fortune-30s-saturn-returns/

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Set in a mysterious (and hostile) wilderness, Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation is one of our #FridayReads. More of our editors’ picks on the blog: http://scr.bi/1EirMNq.

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This forever

Drumsticks.

Drumsticks forever.

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I ate KFC’s Nashville Hot Chicken and I’ve never felt more betrayed. Read my full review here: http://uproxx.com/life/kfc-hot-chicken/

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Do YOU want to win THIS picture of Donald J. Trump? Watch this video, silly —> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnPMpprBGk

P.S. Sorry for the repost, but I wanted to make a superior edit. So this NEW version is only 3 minutes long. That’s short enough that your boss will believe it was a bathroom break!

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The brewmaster poured beer from a steel pitcher into a tulip glass, swirling it to release fresh aromas of malt, figs, and toast. He cheerily explained the complexity of the beer, the process in which he had brewed it, and the food pairings that would best accompany each sip. He handed glasses to several attendees, to a few waiters, to the coworkers who were with me and, finally, he offered a delicate glass of fresh amber beer to me. I gave it a long stare as light danced across the surface.

“No thank you,” I said. “I’m fine with water.”

Read the rest here: http://uproxx.com/life/sober-brewery-tour/4/

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I was introduced to Neutral Milk Hotel on a burned CD that a depressed girl gave me for my thirteenth birthday. It was just before my family left for a road trip to South Texas, driving through the wastelands of Idaho and Utah and New Mexico. I listened to the CD on repeat, over and over again, each time with more attention, like I was trying to decipher some ancient language. I’d never heard folk music with accordions and fuzzed-out bass and the deeply broken vocals that only Jeff Mangum can provide, at once telling stories from the past and giving us visions of the future all swirling together in a hurricane that’s singularly timeless. By the time we got to San Antonio, I was different. I was in love.

Read the rest here: http://blog.vinylmeplease.com/king-carrot-flowers-thoughts-neutral-milk-hotel/

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From A Conversation with Scott Fagan: 

“I knew a David Pemberton when I was younger,” he says, just as I’m starting to record. “He and his family were living in the Virgin Islands… maybe third generation Puerto Ricans. We had a great time together, many adventures running around, it was extraordinary.”

“I never would have guessed that,” I reply. “My name is very English and my skin is very white.”

“Well you’ve got relatives on the Bongo Isles kid, and they’re just waiting for you to come home.”

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Kamala Khan v. Trump by hiphopmummy

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This amazing video is well worth taking a moment to watch, via NBC News.

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Here’s the Codename Baboushka cover I did colored by Tamra Bonvillain minus all text. Thanks to the team for the invite to play! Check it out in the January solicits!

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Bitches Brew: Miles Davis and His Flavor of Jazz

Below is an excerpt from an article I wrote for the Vinyl, Me Please blog. Follow the link at the bottom to keep reading. 

When you start listening to Jazz, if you’re completely unaware (if you’re like me), then you start with the ubiquitous Kind of Blue. It’s the standard that defined the standard, a master work, a relic of a style that has sadly—ironically—been relegated to the lifeless catacombs of shopping malls and elevators in many cases. It’s the music we listen to in-between things, while we’re waiting, without any real attention. And it’s a shame, because Jazz, above all else, demands attention.

Miles Davis spent his whole life trying to make something new. Kind of Blue hums with a collaborative electricity that flows from John Coltrane to Bill Evans to Paul Chambers, and it’s as contained as it is free. It’s dark and it’s sultry and it’s smooth like velvet; it wraps you in this beat that slows your body, like smoke in through your lungs and out through your nostrils. It’s music that sounds familiar because you hear it imitated everywhere, on holding lines with cable companies, in adult films, in the melodies between the bridges of pop music. But Davis gave us something original with Kind of Blue, something that he’d been working towards his entire life. It’s more than electric: it’s the mother spark.

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At least she still has the book?