Under the good points: • New songs from the Constantines, as good as any. • Last day of classes • Sweating a bit • Baked goods • Babysitting • The library open again • Vodka
Under the bad points: • Library lockouts • Time off, coming soon • Private law of pretty much any kind
The shortlist for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize was revealed today. Miracle Fortress is a nice surprise, although the rest of the choices (save The Besnard Lakes, perhaps) are fairly obvious. It's disappointing, too, that Chad VanGaalen is the only nominee who resides west of Ontario. I was hoping for Woodpigeon's Songbook album to come in as a dark
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In Jena, Louisiana, last summer, a black student was told he could sit under a schoolyard tree traditionally reserved for whites. The next morning, three nooses were hanging from the tree
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