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1 month ago | slate.com | Carl Wilson

Skip to the content A Kind of Exasperated Ms. Frizzle Music Joni Mitchell has often told the story that whenever she’d play songs from Blue for her male musician friends before it came out, they’d be taken aback by its frankness. A well-meaning Kris Kristofferson warned her, “Oh Joni, save something for yourself.” It was protective but patronizing.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Carl Wilson

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysJoni Mitchell has often told the story that whenever she’d play songs from Blue for her male musician friends before it came out, they’d be taken aback by its frankness. A well-meaning Kris Kristofferson warned her, “Oh Joni, save something for yourself.” It was protective but patronizing.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Carl Wilson

5 hours agoWarfare Review: A Disturbing, Riveting Nightmare That Redefines 'War Movie'There has never been a war film quite like Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's "Warfare," which feels designed to discombobulate and disturb above all …1 hour agoBill Maher Has Shockingly Self-Important Take on Trump Visit“I mean, it’s kind of a Nixon to China thing. I have the credentials,” the comedian said on The Chris Cuomo Project podcast.

Feb 3, 2025 | slate.com | Carl Wilson

The 2025 Grammys fell on Groundhog Day, which could have been a setup for an easy joke about the music awards show being trapped in a repetitive loop, every year making the same mistakes. But there was a twist. And as a result, last night’s event turned out to be more like the ending of the 1993 Bill Murray movie, in which the hero finally wakes up out of his long Sisyphean existential nightmare into a new day, and the cycle is broken.

Jan 28, 2025 | slate.com | Carl Wilson

The singer-songwriter Neko Case’s new memoir is a superhero origin story. But here, instead of an anonymous mugger gunning down the parents, sending pearls scattering over the pavement, it’s the parents themselves wielding the weapons, like their own parents behind them—and nobody can afford any pearls. Rather than growing up to wear a bat costume to frighten evildoers, the emotional orphan in this story transforms into a bat on the spot and flies away.