The day after continues to be pretty great, Mariners beat Oakland 5-1

Party on, Wayne

We begin with my usual claptrap

“Our Song” isn’t a top-50 Taylor Swift song, and it’s not the example I’d use to try to convert a skeptic. But it is good. It’s characteristically clever for Taylor Swift of all people to write a song about the feelings that music can’t capture. And it has an ear-worm hook, conversational lyrics, specific but unversial details, and a subltle lyric shift at the end. It also demands that you...