[commonplaces] Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook

So this angel walks into a bar.

And she walks up to the first cowboy and she says, Hey... how do you people tell each other apart? You all look so much alike. And this cowboy turns to her real slow, and he says, "What makes you think we can tell ourselves apart?"

[music] WE ARE SCIENTISTS - With Love And Squalor

Facts: Second phase of post-punk revival. Sounds like Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Bloc Party in that order. Verdict: Temporal continuum still in danger. Stock up on canned goods!

I give this credit for standing up to several listens so far, though it seems more like mixtape material than a life-changing album-as-album*. Got to wonder, though, why the first track is named after a Yellowman song ("Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt"). At no point does one hear a reggae influence or suspect that the singer is about to mention his seven-foot wang.

* That was also what I said about the Postal Service record. They now have a guy posted full-time around the corner from my house to point and laugh at me when I go by.