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    irishbreakfast: Quit waffling on twee: it's never good. It means sugary, overly-precious, diabetic-coma inducing crap that is in bad taste. Think of the bedroom decor... more »
    El Matardillo: Something tells me that cartoon is the future of Bill and Hillary Clinton. more »
    WretchedGnu: In the Ware cosmology, that head is actually a cat's, not a mouse's. more »
    WretchedGnu: Aside from Lynda Barry and Ruben Bolling, Chris Ware is the god of a comic book culture that is otherwise pretty shallow. more »
    saintjim: I'm not sure what words I would use to describe that cartoon. But I am sure that "twee" wouldn't be one of them. more »
    BadUncle: During my visit to Tucson, we took a trip to buy produce of integrity at a Whole Foods supermarket overlooking the city.... The cacti outside reminded... more »
    Kois: Yeah, why aren't we allowed to write about something that we wish was more popular in an attempt to help make it more popular? more »
    fileunder: I must be getting fucking old, because as a former MAGNET subscriber ('92-95?), I'd much rather read well-thought out-but-maybe-kinda pandery-y pieces... more »
    Botswana Meat Commission FC: You forgot "must be written by a horrible rockist." more »
    DavidWatts: It's like there are conventions for constructing long-form profiles!! I bet your documentary films or business person profiles would be wholly, magic... more »
    Dickdogfood: Magazine profiles of musicians IN GENERAL are typically cringe-inducing, often for exactly the reasons you describe. (Pop stars like Britney or Beyonc... more »
    Iron Gossett Jr.: I'm completely confused... "None of them feel compelled to do the things that actually famous musicians did in order to get famous, like create an app... more »
    SidAndFinancy: I used the Stradivarius method to learn to ride a motorcycle. more »
    gawkimo: tomorrow's legions of aaa adult contemporary (white) music listeners must love these artists. more »
    skahammer: I believe "the scale at which New York usually operates" -- whatever that is -- was sold in December to property developers from Dubai who were trying... more »
  • #thingsweactuallylike

    A Healthy Overdose Of Twee

    Pinko Culture Overload: rocker Andrew Bird, This American Life, comic book artist Chris Ware. Apart, there's at least one you hate. Smashed together? A wonderful, 3.5 minute video concerning a mouse and a mousehead. More »
  • #indierock

    Writing About Good Music Is Hard

    Dear magazine writers: Just because you love a super-cool independent musician usually isn't a very good reason to commission a profile of that super-cool independent musician to appear in your mass-market consumer magazine. More »
  • #brooklyn

    Brooklyn Music Lovers Want Their Art Pure