Don't Bullshit Me

On Nick Hornby & Pauline Kael, Tanya Tagaq & Taylor Swift, Aubrey Plaza & the Perseids, personal Death Stars & the e.n.d. And a whole lot of new music...

For more than twenty years, I’ve been exchanging a quarterly mix CD with a handful of fellow music loons. We started because we never wanted to stop discovering music we might not otherwise seek out individually. Never mind keeping current; we just wanted to stay alert.

At least as delightful as the ongoing discovery, though, has been the seasonal siftin…