This is the thread where you ask for help in parsing one of Robert Christgau's sentences.

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Yes, is Norah really on antidpressants or was that just a JOKE? (It was funny.)

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 06:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Pop writing should be distracting and illuminating and a little provocative and if possible it should make you laugh and maybe run out and buy an album. That’s about it." - Mr. Ambition^2, this fukkers got his eye's on the mantle and he's taken no prisoners! Watch out English language - this motherfucker's rock n roll! David Segal ain't about writing up the new Norah Jones for all the housewives in northern Virginia - oh no, and he ain't about to be trifling discourse on the new Bonnie Prince Billie for all the comp. lit majors at G-town (HOYAS IN DA HAUS!), no way, this cowboy's out to fukkkk shit up, rip your eyes outcha head, check your prostate (verbally), love you, leave you, FUCK SHIT UP! How'd this rebel getta job at the Washington Post? Does Tony Kornheiser know about this guy?!!!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 07:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

HE'S BACK!!! YES!!!

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

That rebel got to the Post through less-than-admirable means, I hear.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why, he is! Heya Mr. Blount. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Christgau cites Jody Beth as having "got it just right" good on you JBR!

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

twas another jody rosen, john.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Does nobody read the FAQ anymore??!!? ;)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

OK this is getting annoying.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

You should've copyrighted your name, like Billy Joel©.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Say what???

― Billy Joel Rosen (ystrickler), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Say what???

― Billie Joe Armstrong (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

another cheer for the return of Blount from me, says I.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love how Segal's bio sez that a Dead Kennedys show changed his life. yeah, so much so he became a legal writer who was moved to the rock-writing job because the Post decided its 53-year-old rock critic was too old for the job. Segal isn't rock, he isn't roll, my god he's both.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

all said, I still think Christgau writes in code too often these days. I'm not against looking something up in the dictionary but come ON...

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

So who's gonna send Segal the link?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't get Troy McClure saying "I hear he plays the banjo!" out of my head everytime somebody writes the word Segal on this thread.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

if xgau wrote about baseball:
http://baseballtonight.blogspot.com/2005/06/viewer-guide.html

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

this one's better

― Stormy Davis, Friday, 13 July 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link

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