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    Portland / Oregon

    Thanks for the offers! Brewery recommendations would be great, especially if there are spots that fall outside whatever Google, TripAdvisor, Yelp, etc. cough up. Generally speaking, we love seeing things the locals value – the favorite places that wouldn't show up in a travel guide. I mean, we...
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    Black Friday RSD 2019

    Used Kids to Magnolia Thunderpussy to Lost Weekend is my traditional route.
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    Portland / Oregon

    Oof. My wife and I are making our first trip to the city two weeks from today. This dulls my enthusiasm considerably.
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    Black Friday RSD 2019

    Ugh. Had to buy one off Discogs. I spend every Thanksgiving in Columbus, OH, and I've never had a problem finding what I'm looking for, even when I visit the shops later in the day. I'm still sort of shocked at how quickly this one disappeared.
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    Television

    I actually wrote about this in the books thread. This show is based on Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, which is wonderful. So good, in fact, that I'm staying as far away from the show as possible. I'm not typically the guy who makes comparisons between movies/shows and their source...
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    How Does It Feel (To Post About R.E.M.)?

    Ditto. Their best album since Pop.
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    The Reader’s Nook - The N&G Book Thread

    Anyone a fan of Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series and super nervous about the Starz adaptation that starts airing this weekend? I love those books so goddamn much I think I'm going to avoid the show. Adapting the first two books in eight episodes? Surely that's a recipe for disaster.
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    Television

    I stupidly avoided Friday Night Lights when it was first on TV. I binged all five seasons in about a month this summer. Even though I wouldn't characterize it as a "light" show, it was a world I didn't want to leave. So many characters were so compelling and relatable that I always hated to turn...
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    Album of The Year - Endgame

    There's a dead zone in the late 2000s / early 2010s where I connected hard with a handful of records but found most everything else pretty underwhelming. 2011 was one of those years. It's also the year my mom died and I got married within six months of each other, so while #1 would have been #1...
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    Album of The Year - Endgame

    Yikes. This just seems like a crazy year to try to do this. I was a junior in high school, I had just discovered indie music, and all this amazing shit was hitting at once. My attempt at a Top 25 (and ranking these was a fool's errand): 1. Ride – Nowhere 2. The Sundays – Reading, Writing, and...
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    Television

    I watched the first episode of Succession yesterday, and you all (y'all?) were right: it's wonderful. Thanks for convincing me to take the plunge!
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    Television

    Thanks, team. I'll give it a try once I finish Broadchurch (which somehow I skipped the first time around despite my wife's infatuation with David Tennant). I think a big part of my resistance to Succession is the fact that our American political reality for at least the last three years could...
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    sleater-kinney is dead; long live (the) sleater-kinney (thread)

    Saw them last night in Atlanta (and posted a few pics in the recent shows thread). Fantastic, fantastic show. 27 songs, 2 encores, and the new ones had a scrappier edge that sounded great mixed in with the standards. The crowd was one of the most enthusiastic I've seen in my ten years here, and...
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    Upcoming/Recent Shows

    More Sleater-Kinney pics. They blew the roof off the place in Atlanta last night. What a gift to still have them around.
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    Cute Animal Thread

    Vol. 134 of Piper's Listening Post.
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