What's most impressive is the way he's able to connect art and ideas from different eras and continents into a kind of ecstatic worldview. But before he graduated from the ye olde blogosphere, Koenig held forth on a vast array of topics- from geography, to Wellington boots, to music writer 's allegedly unfair critique of Billy Joel's oeuvre- looking at everything from a incisively self-aware, curious, and optimistic angle. The singer and lyricist gave up on his own Blogspot site, seven years ago, as he finished up his English studies at Columbia University (the final post's title: 'I HATE BLOGGING').
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