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James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and five translations from the Italian (the most recent being Dino: The Life and Films of Dino De Laurentiis and Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror). He has contributed to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Book Review, Lingua Franca, the Nation, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He also written about jazz, pop, and classical music for Salon, The Oregonian, and WBUR Online Arts, and is currently editor-at-large at The Columbia Journalism Review. He blogs at www.housemirth.blogspot.com.
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Submitted Comments (134)
Come Together »
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Bullseye once again.
7 months ago 0 replies View »
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John's song, but Paul came up with the swampy bass line and slower tempo. Which is to say that even at the end, when they ...
7 months ago 0 replies View »
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High and Outside: A Conversation with Evan Wright »
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That essay (two of them, actually, if you count the introduction) is hilarious. I think he's pretty relieved to have escaped the clutches of the ...
7 months ago 0 replies View »
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And life should be so much sweeter when we're doing simple things.
He's good, Shixa, you should give him a try.7 months ago 0 replies View »
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He's not really apolitical, he just wants to avoid political preaching in his articles, which I admire. I've only flipped though "Generation Kill" (which I'm ...
7 months ago 0 replies View »
8 comments from 6 members total
Gateway Pundit: Gutter Journalism: Angry Mainstream Media Reporters Use Nasty Sexual Slang to Describe Tea Party Protesters (Video) »
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Ha ha, learn something new every day. I had never looked up that word before. Very educational.
7 months ago 0 replies View »
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Folks, I agree that it's snide and embarrassing for CNN or any other network to be making endless double-entendres at the expense of the protesters. ...
7 months, 2 weeks ago 4 replies View »
38 comments from 18 members total
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (NEW RELEASE!!!) »
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The lyrics are a wee bit generic, but I love the atmospheric, neo-Fifties music, with Dave Hidalgo's accordion dancing in and out of the verses. ...
7 months ago 0 replies View »
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Dust My Broom - Elmore James »
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All we know is that she (or is it he?) left the neighborhood :).
PS Here's the Robert Johnson. I guess he's got more ...7 months ago 1 reply View »
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It sure sounds sexual. But allow me to quote from the holiest of holies, Wikipedia: "Big Joe Williams, who knew Robert Johnson, and who also ...
7 months ago 3 replies View »
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Shirtless Obama To Appear On Magazine Cover »
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I'm sure he had no say about it appearing on the cover. When a magazine buys an image of a public figure from a photographer, ...
7 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »
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Klarissa, they're using a picture somebody snapped of him on the beach in Hawaii, probably using a telephoto from 300 yards away, with plenty of ...
7 months, 1 week ago 3 replies View »
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Propeller Week In Review: April 24, 2009 »
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I don't speak Portuguese, but that last line looked really dirty.
7 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »
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Come on, this is a family-oriented site!
7 months, 1 week ago 2 replies View »
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There once was a site called Propeller
Where any old lady or feller
Could complain or rejoice
At the top of their voice
And make ...7 months, 1 week ago 2 replies View »
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Once upon a midnight WIR-y
Feeling lost and slightly leery
Of making yet another slog
Through member comments for the blog
I found some solace ...7 months, 1 week ago 3 replies View »
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Thanks, ranch. I need all the positive reinforcement I can get.
7 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »
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Normally I wouldn't have gone with Tea Parties, Part Deux. But there were so many related stories and comments that I gave it a second ...
7 months, 1 week ago 1 reply View »
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It was so pithy, Spade, I couldn't resist :).
7 months, 1 week ago 1 reply View »
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Who dropped that George Harrison song? Maybe a paleskin who burns too easily in the sun. Anyway, glad you liked the abridged condensation--I'm going to ...
7 months, 1 week ago 1 reply View »
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STONERS, you are one hell of a speed demon :). Glad you liked the WIR and video.
7 months, 1 week ago 1 reply View »
29 comments from 14 members total
Obama's Disapproval Rating Reaches New High - Political Machine - Politics Blog, Opinion and Analysis - AOL News »
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Folks, if you go just one level deeper on the Rasmussen site, you will see that Obama's numbers have hardly changed at all over the ...
7 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »
43 comments from 20 members total
Propeller Blog: Should the Helmsley Estate Go to the Dogs? »
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My son already says that every weekend when I give him his allowance.
7 months, 1 week ago 1 reply View »
8 comments from 8 members total
ACE---How Long Has This Been Going On? »
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After this one he joined Squeeze and sang "Tempted by the Fruit of Another." He was always a more soulful singer than the other guys.
7 months, 1 week ago 1 reply View »
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Ron Paul: Texas Secession Should be On the Table »
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Oh, please. Can there really be anything more idiotic than this rhetorical sideshow?
7 months, 1 week ago 4 replies View »
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Dylan, Sunny Side Up »
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Already downloaded the "single" (whatever that means in this day and age), "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'." Fun! For a little more info, and link to ...
7 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »
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Dana Milbank - The Choler of Online Comments - washingtonpost.com »
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It is definitely not the policy of Propeller to persecute or silence conservative opinion. I will be the first to insist that criticism of Obama's ...
7 months, 1 week ago 2 replies View »
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Propeller Week in Review: April 16, 2009 »
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"You will prop my story."
7 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »
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You too, EE :).
7 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »
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Only on alternate Fridays.
7 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »
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Ranch, it's hard for me to imagine Obama or anybody else telling you what to think :).
7 months, 2 weeks ago 2 replies View »
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Sometimes it's the entire site!
7 months, 2 weeks ago 2 replies View »
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That's right, I meant the Beatles.
Hmm, perhaps I'm showing my age here.7 months, 2 weeks ago 1 reply View »
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And puissant!
7 months, 2 weeks ago 2 replies View »
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I do admire that, uh, donkey.
7 months, 2 weeks ago 1 reply View »
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Dante--there's no beating him.
7 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »
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Whoops, I meant John Lennon. One version of "Across the Universe" appeared on a charity LP in December 1969, then Phil Spector's ugly, overproduced version ...
7 months, 2 weeks ago 3 replies View »
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Point taken, tdair919. I do try to find comments from the middle ground as well, but sometimes the zippiest material comes from the back-and-forth. Polarized, ...
7 months, 2 weeks ago 4 replies View »
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You know what? I tried to include the Susan Boyle video, but all the embed codes had been removed by request. I'll try to find ...
7 months, 2 weeks ago 6 replies View »
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"Inviting and inciting me..." Wait, that's also in "Across the Universe." Either John cribbed from Pink Floyd or vice versa.
7 months, 2 weeks ago 6 replies View »
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Many thanks. We always aim to please at Propeller :).
7 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »
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Wow, I better deliver a more articulated, segmented product next week. Otherwise it's straight to Hell, isn't it? E caddi come corpo morto cade....
7 months, 2 weeks ago 3 replies View »
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Hyper, any Jew who tried to make common cause with the Nazis in 1933 was deluded to the point of insanity. As for the "many ...
7 months, 2 weeks ago 1 reply View »
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Of course there are comments that clearly violate the TOU and must be removed immediately. But many are borderline, and those are the ones I'd ...
7 months, 2 weeks ago 2 replies View »
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Thanks, ind, and a happy Friday to you.
7 months, 2 weeks ago 3 replies View »
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I find that comment grotesque--as though Hitler's great crime against humanity were gun control laws--but I would rather have it refuted by the community than ...
7 months, 2 weeks ago 15 replies View »
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Glad you like it, PG :).
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Thanks for the kind words, BB and C-M. It's glorious weather here in NYC, with sunshine and the trees budding out (any tree that can ...
7 months, 2 weeks ago 1 reply View »
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Thanks a million, NP. And don't worry, the pop-up photo gallery--now considered every Propeller member's Constitutional right--will be added in 30 minutes or so.
7 months, 2 weeks ago 5 replies View »
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