Ok, each day I keep discovering more and more Lexingtons across the country. I personally have a strong opinion about a couple of them, which prompts me to ask, which is the best Lexington in the nation?

Lexington, KY - Home of Univ. of Kentucky, thoroughbreds, and my birth. Greatest city ever.
Lexington, MA - Lived there for a while, has some nice restaurants in town center. Recently went super gay.
Lexington, NC - The Hickory Smoked Barbeque Capitol of the World. I can’t disagree.
Lexington, SC - Just got a schoolhouse, general store, well, and a website. Good for them.
Lexington, VA - Sort of like Williamsburg, but not intentionally stuck in the past.
Lexington, TN - More bbq restaurants per capita than any other US city. Read: 10 of them.
Lexington, MO - Home of the Battle of Hemp Bales. Seriously. Not much else going on.
Lexington, NE - Eh, I got nothin’. Tumbleweed capitol of the world? Dirtiest town in the US?
Lexington, TX - Surely the home of “Lex-Tex” food, which is nothing like Tex-Mex.

I have no idea why Office is still unsigned. The album’s been finished since 2005, yet we’re no closer now to officially hearing it than we were back then. This, just like Love Is All’s delayed release, is criminal. This album is indie rock solid as any New Pornographers stuff, but a little more jaded.

Maybe it’s all the use of actual office imagery, but this album feels like being stuck in a crappy office job, but with a huge window. There’s a greyed, apathetic slink wrapped around some seriously catchy tunes and beats. It’s like being in a one-man prison: you’d think it be easy to break out, but it’s not, so you just enjoy the view from four walls of bars. Part drunken-piano-ballad, part-ELO, part-new age grindy. These songs will be glued to your brain, and you’ll tear off a layer of grey matter trying to get them out.

Call me conservative, call me libertarian, call me correct. Whatever you call me, just know that I think reading a bunch of a 7-year-olds a book called “King and King” is pretty foul. The admins claim that they need to teach kids in elementary school about their world, and in Massholia, gay marriage is legal.

Unfortunately, little kids and gay marriage don’t mix. Teach high schools, maybe. But elementary? What a bunch of bastards. Parents should be doing the teaching about “alternate lifestyles”, not 2nd grade teachers. If they’re going to teach it, at least warn the parents and kids beforehand, so they can yank them out of class that day.

Controversy over gay book in elementary school
Globe article about it