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Ask a Mexican Gustavo Arellano: Donkey Shows are a "wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves" Jennifer Sandlin

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Comics Why do the Guardians of the Galaxy comic book still struggle to catch on? Thom Dunn

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androgynous In praise of The Replacements' Androgynous Jennifer Sandlin

Internet Archive has a collection of Fisher-Price Pocket Rockers songs from the 1980s Mark Frauenfelder

music How to make a boombox that's less than half-an-inch thick Mark Frauenfelder

music New documentary about the legendary Elephant 6 Recording Company is finally getting a premiere Thom Dunn

records Return of the legendary Sound Burger portable record player from the 1980s David Pescovitz

documentaries New documentary about the 1990s Athens, Georgia underground music scene Jennifer Sandlin

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