Chris Mayes has been churning out the blog posts this month. He’s got a new name for his blog: A Disorder of Things; a new header: above; and been writing some good stuff. He’s in the middle of a top 10 albums of 2007 and I found his latest post on Hicks and bin Laden particularly insightful. Here’s a snippet:
Well, I think like the banality of Eichmann, the loveliness of bin Laden is hard for people to take because we think evil people need to thoroughly evil with no redeeming features. They need to hold all the negative character traits including tobacco smoking (Russians, Arabs and bad guys) and poor dental hygiene.