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- Pete Townshend, playing for nonfans
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• That support for the death penalty keeps falling and is now at its lowest level in more than four decades? —Mick Dumke
• That reports about the prevalence and horrific effects of a street drug called krokodil may be exaggerated? —Tony Adler
• About the first rule of wearing blackface for Halloween? —Gwynedd Stuart
• Great ideas from the man who invented the calendar? (“I want to double the length of a second so people won’t always have to say, ‘Can you give me two seconds?'”) —Steve Bogira
• David Sedaris on his sister’s suicide? —Tal Rosenberg
• Or seen the work of Jeff Bennett, whose latest series shows Thomas Kinkade paintings under siege by Star Wars spaceships? —Aimee Levitt
• About the Illinois church that looks like a giant penis from above? —Gwynedd Stuart
• That it’s impossible the escape the Saint Louis Cardinals on KMOX? —Aimee Levitt
• About Lou Reed’s transvestite (or possibly transsexual) “muse?” —Tony Adler
• That the Who prefer to play for nonfans? —J.R. Jones