Take Five: Commas, codes, and killers

It took an esoteric gathering of items to distract me from the horrors of American life this week, with Aimee Mann, Joe Pernice, Michael Connelly, Guadalcanal Diary, and Cole Swensen. Oh, and commas

“Take Five” is posted each Friday, and offers five things I spent some time with over the course of the previous week. No criticism, no in-depth analysis, just a few things I think you might be interested in checking out. When the spirit moves me, I’ll post other things at other times.