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The Who - The Song Is Over

Some songs are relatively straightforward: they start in one place and explore that patch of musical ground for a while, and then they end. Most songs are like that, in fact, and it works well. But there are other songs that start in one place musically, then go somewhere else, then somewhere else after that, etc. It's harder to pull off, and the hardest thing of all is to have the changes so seamless that a casual listener never thinks about how many times the song is changing. Here's the Who from 1971.

Frank O'Hara - The Selected Poems

A new version of selected poems by Frank O'Hara, who was part of the New York art scene in the 1950s and 1960s, has just been published. Here's a decent review from the New York Times, including a brief overview of the poet and his world.

Thanks, my blood wasn't already boiling--part 19

David Addington, "Cheney's Cheney," at least doesn't argue that he is not required to respond to a congressional subpoena. The photo of Addington and John Yoo posing like frat boys is priceless.

Obama Brings Out the Crazies

A good kerfluffle is simultaneously entertaining and serious. Over at the Undercover Black Man blog, UBM himself, who in the meat world was once a reporter, found what was passing itself off as a pro-Obama website that looked suspicious. So he did some digging, identified the website's white McCain-supporting creator, and outed him. In the ensuing comments, the McCain supporter himself showed up to argue. Read it all here.

Barack Obama's Favorite Dylan Song

According to Jann Wenner on last night's Charlie Rose show, it's this one.

Thanks, my blood wasn't already boiling--part 18

How the Bush administration supports the troops, as explained by Bob Herbert.