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...Love the City is actually a concept album dedicated to the city of London, which isn’t necessarily a good thing, as the album tends to suffer from being a little too serious, over-drab, gray, and bleak, mirroring more the London weather than the more subtle sense of anything wry, cynical, cutting edge, or characteristically London-cool...
...also brings his grim perspective to a live two-hour radio talkshow, Radio Pirates, which is shaking up Bulgaria's stodgy media establishment by examining for-merly taboo issues - like aids, homophobia and neo-Nazism - on which the government is seen to have failed. Karbovsky's message is unrelentingly bleak. "I gave this country my youth, my hopes, lots of hard work," he says. "Now all I want is for the material world to stop being a problem for me." An obvious egoist, Karbovsky nevertheless speaks for a generation of disillusioned young Bulgarians...
Things started to look bleak when Turner blew a second-set lead and lost 6-4, 6-4 at No. 3 singles, but freshman Ryan Browne won a big 7-6, 7-6 match at No. 6 singles over Alex Krohn. The deciding match for the Bulldogs came at No. 5, where Barker and Alex Menichini were tied at a set apiece. Menichini then blew by Barker, 6-1, in the third set, for the win, giving Fresno State the overall victory. Choo later won at No. 2 to make the final score...
Harvard needed two wins to advance to single-elimination play, and the situation looked bleak with No. 23 Wisconsin and Southeast Missouri State looming on the horizon. But the Crimson won both games in come-from behind, extra-inning fashion...
...quite. Ten minutes later, I'm back in the air. Another storm. This one lasts the whole flight. I run through my bleak assumptions. This time, I answer them for myself. Pilot. Lousy communicator. Plane. Holding together. Made for this. Look out the window. The pulsing clouds remind me of Van Gogh. My hands stay on my lap. I play with my rings. I'll be coming down soon enough. I register between a 3 and a 4. I can do this...