TUESDAY 3/3 Jeff Kirby explained why he still loves Mastodon, and Eric Grandy fessed up to overusing "twee," "dreampop," and "jangly." Plus: Scott Walker; Travis Ritter's fantasy headlines about new releases by Neko Case, the Monks, and others; a few words about Art Brut; and Wu-Tang Clan. WEDNESDAY...

Mrs. Meyers Clean Home:  No-Nonsense Advice that Will Inspire Your to CLEAN like the DICKENS Life is hectic and messy. Keeping your house clean and nice is the only sensible thing to do. Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Home is two parts common sense and one part inspiration. Read it and you will learn how to ...

It's been a hectic day and week and weekend and in the midst of it all I forgot to let everyone know that SLOG HAPPY IS THIS THURSDAY! You knew that already, though, right? Because it's always the second Thursday of the month. This month's Slog Happy is a very special Slog Happy—Miss Scary Tyl...

Since I posted on the season 2 debut of Breaking Bad Friday, feel free to use this post to discuss it. Also, this is as good a time as any to discuss a crisis affecting Tuned In: There is just too damn much good TV on the weekends for me to blog it all, without hiring either a personal assistant or ...

I’m very fortunate. Since March/ April 2003 I’ve been able to blog for free, hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. It’s an option open to anyone with a Harvard email address. While we all started with Radio Userland, Berkman switched everyone over to Wo...

For the past 10 years, I have owned a dishwasher.  And now, I can’t imagine my life without one.  At first, I was clueless on how to load my dishwasher.  lol  I guess I wasn’t truly clueless.  I was just hesitant because I thought I wouldn’t do it right and the dishes wouldn&#...

Eli Sanders on the Internal Panic at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Assuming Hearst continues with the process of closing down the print edition by mid-March, it's easy to imagine an online-only P-I staffed with as few as 20 people. Or even fewer..." Brendan Kiley Interviews the Dance Company locus...

I'm taking the day off from cranking out the medicines of tomorrow (OK, the day after tomorrow), so there will be no post today. I did want to add something about yesterday's post on the La Clair/hexacyclinol controversy. I'd like to ask that people not fill up the comments with ad hominem remarks o...

I'm taking the day off from cranking out the medicines of tomorrow (OK, the day after tomorrow), so there will be no post today. I did want to add something about yesterday's post on the La Clair/hexacyclinol controversy. I'd like to ask that people not fill up the comments with ad hominem remarks o...

A profile of Jamie Spiess of Husbands, Love Your Wives: At a recent show at the Tractor Tavern, Jamie Spiess—the young woman who performs under the name Husbands, Love Your Wives—arrived just moments before her set was scheduled to start, spent its first few minutes tuning up onstage in ...