NYT reviews from that era were usually by Gerald Jonas, who I usually think of as saying more sensible things than that.

they must be really excited about xian hard rockers Skillet, to list them twice

Not *that* David Lynch, one can be certain (based on the director's own public statements and work). Not like it's an uncommon name.

“I make myself no image” - getting local in time and space with a poem by Bernadette Mayer.

Though (re your alt description) to be fair, I think that may actually be Sarah Huckabeeee Sanders' happy face.

Thank you. Listening to that may have redeemed my otherwise quite aggravating day.

YouGov is very weird sometimes.

I never tire of this album, nearly a half-century on.

I think it's safe to say many of us of a certain age miss the laugh or two we got from the Weekly World News while waiting in the supermarket checkout aisle.

Thank you. Doesn't even stand up to the "fond retirement party doggerel by a colleague" (low) standard.