Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 2 Editor's Choice: 1
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[Read the article: A mistake that should last a lifetime]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I got the a forest background from Craig Thomson's graphic novel Blankets around my left forearm. It's about 6 months old and 4 out of every 5 days it looks great, but there are times when I look at it and seriously wonder how I could've done this to myself. If the ratio of good to bad days is anywhere close in 6 years I'll feel like i made the right decision. Anyways, I thought this was a nice little article, I too got mine out of the fear of blending into sterile 00's corporate culture. It's kind of interesting how everyone who is accepting of tattoos already has one while while those who oppose them do so so strongly.
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[Read the article: Turn around, Bright Eyes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with most of what was written, but by fitting Connor's output to the arc of her own life, the author overlooks a lot of really amazing and unique music. His best writing occurs when he breaks through the personal/political divide as he did with 2005's I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (not mentioned in the piece). "Lua" is as good a confessional as anything he's ever written and "Poison Oak" proved that a maturer Oberst can still bring the histrionics. Maybe it's because I'm younger than the author and maybe it's because I moved to New York, the city he chronicles with that album, at the same time it was released, but even three years out, Wide Awake strikes me as nearly perfect. Listening to "Old Soul Song" still feels like standing at my first war protest and "We are Nowhere and It's Now" feels like last call. I guess my only question to the author is "How is that not the twenty-something album that you've always him to make?"