We're so close to the goal! Go team!
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Thom Dunn is a Boston-based writer, musician, and utterly terrible dancer. He is the singer/guitarist for the indie rock/power-pop the Roland High Life, as well as a staff writer for the New York Times’ Wirecutter and a regular contributor at BoingBoing.net. Thom enjoys Oxford commas, metaphysics, and romantic clichés (especially when they involve whiskey), and he firmly believes that Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" is the single greatest atrocity committed against mankind. He is a graduate of Clarion Writer's Workshop at UCSD ('13) & Emerson College ('08).
From Live Freaky, Die Freaky!, the post-apocalyptic stop-motion Charles Manson sci-fi musical. Yup.
So Anyway, Here's That Song That Charlie Manson Cut With The Beach Boys
In celebration of his upcoming nuptials, I thought I'd remind you of my personal favorite piece of weird Charles Manson history (not that I have like, a running list but...ugh, whatever).
See, once upon a time, just a year before the fully-public crazy and the murder and stuff, Charlie Manson was shacking up with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. Sure, they shared some concubines, but more importantly, they made music together.
That's right, the Beach Boys collaborated with one of the most notorious Neo-Nazi cultist murderers in American history.
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Here's a little poem I wrote for my friends' wedding. I had the EMT-video game-heart metaphor early on (because it fits them), but it took me forever to actually nail the thing down. I tried so many different approaches, but I'm pretty happy with the final product (and more importantly, so were they!)
The Horror! The Horror!
Halloween. When the dead walk the Earth. Meanwhile, we have protests spreading wide across the country, facing down corruption and police brutality at every turn. But what really matters is OH EM GEE KIM KARDASHIAN AND KRIS HUMPHRIES ARE GETTING A DIVORCE AFTER ONLY TWO AND A HALF MONTHS OF MARRIAGE!
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Wedding Bells Are Ringing? Ooh, That's Gotta Hurt!
First of all — congratulations to Andrew Sargent, one of my oldest friends in the world, and the newly-christened Mrs. Christi Sargent, on their beautiful nuptials this past weekend. Once I again, I apologize for forgetting my pants at the wedding. ...
That being said, I was hit with a stroke of inspiration during the traditional bridal bouquet toss at the reception, and so this week's Five By Five Hundred post features a sports announcer play-by-play of a wedding bouquet toss.
Or maybe it's just a horse race. I'm not really sure.