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James Fallows - James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States, and once worked as President Carter's chief speechwriter. His latest book, China Airborne, will be published in May.
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James Fallows is based in Washington as a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He has worked for the magazine for nearly 30 years and in that time has also lived in Seattle, Berkeley, Austin, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and Beijing. He was raised in Redlands, California, received his undergraduate degree in American history and literature from Harvard, and received a graduate degree in economics from Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. In addition to working for The Atlantic, he has spent two years as chief White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, two years as the editor of US News & World Report, and six months as a program designer at Microsoft. He is an instrument-rated private pilot. He is also now the chair in U.S. media at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, in Australia.

Fallows has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award five times and has won once; he has also won the American Book Award for nonfiction and a N.Y. Emmy award for the documentary series Doing Business in China. He was the founding chairman of the New America Foundation. His two most recent books, Blind Into Baghdad (2006) and Postcards From Tomorrow Square (2009), are based on his writings for The Atlantic; he is at work on another book about China. He is married to Deborah Fallows, author of the recent book Dreaming in Chinese. They have two married sons.

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Pomplamoose --> My Terrible Friend

By James Fallows

Jul 26 2010, 12:29 PM ET

Fans of the YouTube-based indie duet Pomplamoose, to whom I had a previous homage here, will want to know that its singer, Nataly Dawn, has teamed up with another singer-guitarist, Lauren O'Connell, to form the group My Terrible Friend. YouTube video introducing MTF, with Dawn and Jack Conte of Pomplamoose and their giant cat, here. Another intro video, from the new MTF duo of Dawn and O'Connell plus a different giant cat, here; and an actual MTF song here.

All best wishes and so on to My Terrible Friend; but I hope this doesn't mean the end of Pomplamoose and the Dawn-Conte collaborations. As the economists might put it, the opportunity cost of the new group's formation will be unacceptably high, if it reduces the flow not just of Pomplamoose cover songs, like Earth Wind & Fire's September or even Sound of Music's My Favorite Things, but of originals like this one, as shown below. Maybe Nataly Dawn will just do twice as much singing -- which, as the refrain in the song below puts it, would be fine.


Thanks to BL for the tip.


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