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Favorite novels of the 1940s and 1950s
You can’t engineer types of guys, unless you’re Tralfamadorian
Feb 15
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Top 25 African songs of the Seventies
Apr 2, 2023
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Top 10 newspaper comic strips
Aug 24, 2025
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Ten favorite records of 1921
Feb 4
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Top 50 albums of the Fifties
May 4, 2025
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Semipop Life
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Semipop Life: Our love is liberation
Danny Brown, the Kasambwe Brothers, Anthony Joseph, DJ K, and more!
Jan 26
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Semipop Life: Not with that attitude
Hüsker Dü, Lella Fadda, CMAT, Big Thief, and more!
Dec 8, 2025
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Semipop Life: Step step step, brothers
Jazzwrld & Thukuthela, Jubal Lee Young, Wednesday, Fieldwork, and more!
Nov 2, 2025
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Semipop Life: Indestructible libido
Mahotella Queens, Maria Muldaur, Pulp, Sabrina Carpenter, and more!
Oct 5, 2025
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Semipop Life: Sensual, not sexy
Public Enemy, Messa, ARTMS, plus: Countrypop Life 3!
Sep 7, 2025
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Video & Audio
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Video & Audio: For mature audiences
Protest songs in response to paramilitary oppression
Feb 1
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Video and Audio: Mixed feelings
It's lit! It's music!
Dec 14, 2025
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Video & Audio: I hate you so much right now
Goop on ya grinch with a baseball binch
Nov 17, 2025
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Video & Audio: The best mistake
There's many things I wish I didn't do
Oct 12, 2025
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Video & Audio: Far-flung the shallow, now
Throwing the 'bows, French tip on the toes
Sep 14, 2025
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Odds & Ends
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Odds & Ends 150
Pantaloon-busting anniversary edition!
Jan 18
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Odds & Ends 149
plus: a post-poptimist manifesto, down the bottom so you can ignore it
Sep 28, 2025
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Odds & Ends 148
Exhausted? Look back, then look up
Aug 31, 2025
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Odds & Ends 147
Not much of a mushness
Jul 7, 2025
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Odds & Ends 146
10 INPUT SKRONK 20 IF SKRONK = LOUD THEN PRINT "FUN" 30 GOTO 10
May 11, 2025
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Other Music
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The Bullpen 011
Distant readers, close writers
Feb 8
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The 15th Annual Expert Witness Poll: Results
The right to say it's my country
Jan 24
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The 15th Annual Expert Witness Poll: Voting thread
Plus: You can finally pay me for this! Scroll down for details!
Jan 12
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The Purge 2025: A fast casual Thanksgiving
Bourgeois chimeras and populist goslings
Nov 30, 2025
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50 favorite songs, 2020–2025
Amapiano + amo, a pain
Nov 24, 2025
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Miscellany
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Favorite novels of the 1940s and 1950s
You can’t engineer types of guys, unless you’re Tralfamadorian
Feb 15
10
5
Semipop Lifestyle: St. Louis last weekend
Anselm Kiefer! Darby vs. Moxley! Cahokia!
Oct 27, 2025
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Top 10 newspaper comic strips
one for each decade of the twentieth century, with some gerrymandering
Aug 24, 2025
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Semidrunk Life: The music of Jia Zhangke
The old is going, but where is the new?
Jun 29, 2025
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Semipop Lifestyle: Art and architecture in Texas
(food is an art)
Jun 7, 2025
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Listmas
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2025 miscellaneous lists
One boba after another
Jan 11
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99 Lives 2025
20th anniversary edition!
Jan 4
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45 favorite albums of my 2025
A year of small numbers (doot doot)
Dec 28, 2025
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Favorite books of my year, 2025
This year confirmed that the Nobel people listen to me, so let’s get this right
Dec 25, 2025
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Favorite comics of my 2025
I've suffered for my art… now it's your turn
Dec 21, 2025
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