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  Hear 59 Songs About Patton Oswalt, All Written by One Dude

  April 26, 2013 – Look, Patton Oswalt's a busy dude. Of late, he's been defending the good name of humanity against real-life scumbags in between acting stints on FX's Justified, NBC's Parks & Recreation and HBO's The Newsroom. He's a onetime SPIN columnist, occasional Spiderman villain/full-time awesome dad, and he's probably writing another book or something. …
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  I'm Not There: Patton Oswalt's Favorite Festival Set Never Even Happened

  July 11, 2012 – I'd been invited to perform at Bumbershoot back in the late '90s. I was so happy to even go, much less with an all-access laminate swinging from my neck like the God of Indie Cred's cock itself. Ninety-six hours in Seattle over Labor Day weekend, under skies as blue as a Joni Mitchell album and as clear as a straight-edger's urine sample. …
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  Patton Oswalt in SPIN's Loud Issue: Enjoy the Silence

  June 12, 2012 – The electric thrum of the power charging up the speakers at the lip of the stage feels like a million unstoppable tanks driven by a million PCP addicts, barely held in check, and then… One guitar string is plucked by one fingernail, and a shockwave of sound, riding on the collective, slumbering explosion of the crowd, breaks and fires and crashes into all the walls of the club… And we're, all of us, band and audience, out of ourselves  …
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  Patton Oswalt's First New SPIN Column: This Way to the Egress

  February 28, 2012 – You could rage against the seemingly never-ending recycling of ideas and sense of entitlement that dominates our culture. Or you could use that to forge a path forward. Follow Patton Oswalt if you want to live. Oh Lord, we're doing the nostalgia thing again. We're always going to be doing the "nostalgia thing," one way or another, aren't we? …
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  A Final Word From SPIN's Guest Editor Patton Oswalt

  October 21, 2011 – MAY 1994San Rafael, CA Whew! Wasn't that a fun read? Wait, it wasn't? You're mad I left out this as-yet-unfamous sketch group, or those amazing, little-viewed YouTube films, or that struggling-in-obscurity comedian? Wait, there's an unsigned band I'm too clueless to know about and skipped entirely? Great! Get pissed off! See that picture? That was me in 1994. Doing stand-up. Somewhere. Royally sucking. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: Patton Oswalt in Hilarious Ettes Video

  August 24, 2011 – What if a director squandered an $81 million music video budget and all the band had left was a bunch of footage of themselves acting oddly in front of a CGI green screen? That's the scenario imagined in the hilarious new video from kickass Nashville trio, the Ettes, directed by The Best Show host Tom Scharpling and starring comedian Patton Oswalt -- as Tom Scharpling. …
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