It's way too beautiful today.

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Let me have some of what you need me for.

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Maybe less is the matter with Kansas than Tom Frank thought. (We saw three or four copies of What's the... on the shelves at Housing Works last night.)

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Jace Clayton to tour with the Ex.

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David Perry has pictures from the forced mash-up Dirty Three / Chinese acrobat show in Shanghai.

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The Trip Shakespeare song I remembered was "The Crane", but all the same -- this list of lost early 90s indie is at least as entertaining a neuron-refresher as walking down a hallway cleaned with an obsolete product.

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A lot going on in Boston tomorrow.

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And at lunch today, we go open the 60-day window look at a "Building closed today" sign. Veterans Day, Observed. Sunny, highs in the 60s.