Ellipses

Here's Colin Meloy singing one of my favorite Decemberists songs while riding around on an elevator. He seems to be having fun. . . . Preview the title track of the forthcoming Hold Steady record here. It's a live recording, and not a great one, but still. . . . Christopher Hitchens' brother, Peter, makes a brief but heartfelt case for The Book of Common Prayer. . . . A friend of mind discovers some fun facts about the last country to abandon feudalism.