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If the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is good for nothing else, eligibility for it is a reliable sign that a band is, if not done, nearly damn done. And so it is, officially, with REM. . . . Lorrie Moore has a story in The New Yorker this week. Haven't read it, but I'll go ahead and guess it's worth a link. She always is. . . . And a sentence from a story I've been working on, just because I've got nothing else for you: "The green and red lights strung on the mirror behind the bar made the place feel, at all times, like Christmas Eve for people who had no one and liked it that way."