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Not for nothing, as they say on The Sopranos, do I generally keep my mouth shut about media freakouts. But this Colorado Clusterfuck illustrates so much public and private dysfunction, and only some of it can be blamed on the means by which the story is broadcast. I am indeed disappointed that the talk is [...]

Vampire Weekend is in the best kind of danger. A few weeks ago, as you know, they released the single off their new album, due out in January. Three months is an eternity online, time enough for the pile-ons to get up and move on (“Hey, Grey’s Anatomy fans! A little help!”), and while it’s [...]

Watching our peers’ lives is the closest we can come to a glimpse of the parallel universes in which we didn’t ruin that relationship years ago, or got that job we applied for, or got on that plane after all. It’s tempting to read other people’s lives as cautionary fables or repudiations of our own. [...]