Utilitarian Review 12/22/17

 
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The 98th greatest album ever: Cut Copy’s In Ghost Colours.

Why voting isn’t important, but enfranchisement is.

I wrote the best haiku.

I explained neoliberalism, since that’s what all the cool kids are doing.

 
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At Playboy I wrote about the conservatism of the Last Jedi.

At NBC I answered once and for all the question of whether the Last Jedi is science fiction.

Austin post-genre pop performer Mobley on making it as a middle-class musician.

I contributed two pieces to the Reader Worst of Chicago list:

—why R. Kelly is the worst.

—why Bruce Rauner is the worst.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

Superman vs. Bizarro communism.

some overlooked releases in 2017, including Chilean shoe gaze, Texas country, and Niger guitar music.