Good evening from Independence, Missouri, roughly 17 miles outside of Kansas City. Holy cow is it hot here. My in-car thermostat hit 98 degrees this afternoon. While I was waiting for my…
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SUNDAY MIX TAPE – VOLUME 64
Greetings from Covington, KY – home of…that White Castle half-a-block away from the plush hotel room in which I’m currently situated. After a ten-hours-plus drive, I am relaxing on a couch, sipping…
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Record Lables: A Very Rushed List
Phew. Today was a very long day. It’s 5pm, but there is still so much work to be done. I’ve been out of the house since noon, running errands which brought me…
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Area Douchebag Celebrates Own Birth
I’m not writing a “real” entry today, but for those of you who anticipated a conclusion to the bee story, I’ll briefly tell you about my afternoon with the exterminator. Apparently he…
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Hail Satan?
The wasp infestation in my bedroom reached a sort of critical mass last evening. While I was on the phone with my roommate-to-be, I uncovered another dead wasp (that makes a handful…
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Our Bubble Is Better Than Your Bubble
Today marks a very solemn day here at Swan Fungus. The penultimate episode of The Best Podcast You Have: Circulations Amethyst. On this week’s installment, there was a guest musician, some friend…
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SUNDAY MIX TAPE – VOLUME 63
As I write this, I’m watching Mike Lowell hit his second home run against the Yankees in a hotly contested battle up in Boston. I had a good weekend, thanks for asking.…
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The Top Ten Other Records Of 1971
Ah, 1971. The Vietnam war was still rolling along, Ólafur Jóhannesson formed a government in Iceland, and somewhere on the East Coast of these United States, I was still a decade-plus away…
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Record Review: Negura Bunget – Om
Hanging out with Sam Tuesday night reminded me that I haven’t reviewed but two of the several black metal albums he gifted me as an introduction to the genre. Since my brain…
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Photos From the Past
In the back of the closet, a discovery is made. A vast treasure trove of old slides; photographs taken by my grandfather during the 1950s. They recall family and vacations during a…