Doin it and doin it and doin it well. Or, at least, moderately well this week.

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Doin it and doin it and doin it well. Or, at least, moderately well this week.

For anyone of my generation, the quirky and quietly touching Blind Melon video for their breakout hit, 'No Rain,' is likely seared upon your retinas, too.

The New Yorker recently featured a story about a medical secretary in Paris, Isabelle Mège, who persuaded a number of renowned photographers to take her picture over the course of two decades. The story highlights how obsessive Mège was in her quest to be photographed.

This coming weekend Columbus plays host to the second annual Cartoon Crossroads festival. Last year, the 3-day event was capped by a conversation with legend, Art Spiegelman, author of Maus. They also billed 2015's festival as a "soft launch." This year, they're back with...

All the news that's fit to punt this week.

Columbus, OH indie rock band, Connections, recently released a video for their new song "Weapons," and it's totally bizarre and extremely impressive.

I really enjoyed Alexander Maksik's debut novel, You Deserve Nothing, which was published by Europa Editions in 2011, and kept me reading into the early morning hours. I've been excited to check out Maksik's newest novel, Shelter in Place (also out from Europa Editions), which was just released this month. I picked up a copy at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

On the heels of the Pygmalion Festival in Champaign, Illinois, we took Masande Ntshanga on what we jokingly referred to as the "Silicorn Valley" Tour throughout much of Iowa. This included pit stops in Fairfield, and events in East Davenport, and Iowa City.
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I am currently along for the ride on Masande Ntshanga's U.S. book tour for The Reactive. Last Saturday, we were exchanging and discussing music videos in our hotel room over some classy-shitty American beer. He showed me the beautiful and redemptive video for the song, "Never Catch Me."

A quote from Nick Cave as featured in the new documentary, One More Time With Feeling.
