But it's not all irony and rhetorical questions, these two guys make people feel good. The club on Sunday night was full of fans who knew all the words - whether from a love of the band or a love of the books it was hard to tell. But that's the beauty of it. While most of the songs are outrageously funny, a few are really poignant. Towards the end of the show on Sunday when they sang a requiem for a certain beloved character who was killed in Book 7 (no spoiler here – read on), there were tears shed. And during the chorus of "The Weapon We Have Is Love," Bostonist spied a guy giving his friend a big hug, just out of goodwill. It was a funny sight to see in the Middle East. Although the club's usual convulsive dancing and interesting characters were present, there was also giddiness. But perhaps that's what you get when two boys who "love to rock against the dark lord" go and write about the most beloved books on the planet. All in all, a great clashing-of-genres experiences.
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Weeks of anticipation of Condoleezza Rice's address to the graduates of Boston College have left us wondering if she would or if she wouldn't. She did, and it worked out fine. There is difficulty in standing alone against a public figure – 50 Boston College seniors stood with their backs against Condi as she began the keynote address to the graduates. The rest of the class and much of the audience stood in a standing ovation for the Secretary of State. Her speech was less than controversial, she even played into the concerns that students and faculty had voiced through protests about her involvement and symbolic representation of the Jesuit University.
So Bostonist was intrigued to see the article in Slate this morning in which Tyler Cowen proposes that there's nothing that special about indie bookstores apart from their customer service and cozy atmosphere. (Um, duh?) Cowen is an econ professor and thereby most likely does not have feelings, so we have to take his “I'm-a-capitalist-hear-me-roar” piece with a grain of salt, but he comes uncomfortably close to the nail's head when he points out that indie bookstores are just as profit-driven (and sometimes cutthroat) as their superstore neighbors. Harvard Book Store, after all, has the Frequent Buyer Card, which fits nicely in your wallet next to your CVS card, Stop&Shop card, and other mass consumer cards. And Brookline Booksmith is giving away a plasma tv at an author event this week, albeit due to a publisher's mandate. Perhaps Cowen is right, and even indie bookstores are shamelessly out for your money, or perhaps these poor noble enterprises are just trying to survive. Either way, perhaps you should take your halo down a notch when you walk into an indie.