Sunday, October 19, 2025

Taylor's Latest Has "Showgirl" Glitz and Glam but None of the Grit and Grind

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     I watched the excellent Pamela Anderson comeback  The Last Showgirl  perhaps a month before Taylor announced the title of her upcoming ...
Monday, May 6, 2024

Ode to a Missing Apostrophe: Taylor's Brilliant, Tortured Poetry Powers Melancholy Anthology

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  I suspect every English teacher has a grammatical pet peeve (or 50), an error seemingly so basic that we just can't fathom how we cont...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

The End of an "Era": Our Last-Minute Trek to See Taylor

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The first time I, then a 33-year-old man, publicly declared my love for the music of the then 20-year-Taylor Swift was via a Facebook status...

How Frequent Flyers Are Getting F@#%ed

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  Air travel sucks.  We all know and accept this. From the second I settle into my seat, all I can think about is when I can get off this pl...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Soothing, Well-Crafted "Midnights" Not Quite Mid*, But Clock is Ticking

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* mid: teenager-speak for "mediocre at best"     From those first pulsating electronic thumps on "Lavender Haze," the me...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

It's a Taylor Two-fer: "Evermore" Expands Quarantine Cottage Couture

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  Buzz Aldrin. That's what kept coming to mind when I was trying to characterize this album. Sure, the dude's famous, but he'll ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Taylor Flexes Maturity, Staying Power to Deliver Moody "Folklore"

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On Thursday, July 23, 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic that had the world stuck mostly indoors for the past four months, Taylor Sw...