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There’s a wooden birdcage with chicken figurines, an ode to where he came from, and the evolution of his ambition.

From Salon

Albert Birney, the director, co-writer and star, delivers a black-and-white ode to a previous era’s slippery boundaries between real existence and the 8-bit kind that isn’t quite a cautionary tale, nor does it want to be one.

From Los Angeles Times

I can hear the woodwinds and strings in your ode to creative lawyering in the states.

From Slate

But, as I’ve discussed in my ode to the Big Quarterly Prep Day, I do prefer it in ceremonious bursts: a few hours at a stretch, a good playlist, iced coffee sweating onto the counter, the sense that I am provisioning not just dinner but a future version of myself.

From Salon

Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billy Joe,” a 1967 hit that Kirk never recorded elsewhere, may be the most valuable find here.

From The Wall Street Journal