My favorite band broke up last week.

I found out rather randomly – through a retweet of a friend of someone I follow. ¹

Perhaps it’s fitting I found out about about The Weakerthans in a rather random fashion in the first place. I was a sorta part-time music reviewer for the paper where I worked. I’d get piles of review CDs and would spin them to see if anything struck my fancy.

Reconstruction Site did. I wrote a glowing review. Not that I was expecting much to come of it. I wasn’t exactly a star-maker.

Rather, the... More