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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the Coen brothers' film True Grit. They're joined by Slate's political reporter Christopher Beam to discuss the movement to abandon caps lock, and by Slate's music critic Jody Rosen to discuss the death of Captain Beefheart.

Here are some links to the things we discussed this week:

The official Web site for the Coen brothers' True Grit.
The Charles Portis novel the film is based on.
The original 1969 film adaptation of Portis' novel, starring John Wayne.
Carter Burwell's score for the new film.
Dana's No Country for Old Men review for Slate.
The Coen brothers' films Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing.
Christopher Beam on the movement to abandon caps lock in Slate.
Google's new laptop, the Google Cr-48 notebook.
The influential 1984 IBM Model M keyboard.
The New York Times' article on young people preferring text messages to e-mail.
"The Death of E-Mail," Slate's piece on the same subject from three years ago.
The usage wars over prescriptivism versus descriptivism.
George Bernard Shaw's ideas for English spelling reform.
The Wikipedia page for Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart.
Captain Beefheart's influential 1969 album Trout Mask Replica.
The American blues singer Howlin' Wolf.
Sometime Captain Beefheart guitarist Ry Cooder.
The late-1960s Brazilian movement Tropicália.
The BBC's 1997 Captain Beefheart documentary on YouTube.

The Culture Gabfest weekly endorsements:

Dana's pick: the eclectic blog Res Obscura.
Julia's pick: Brahms' A German Requiem, available on Amazon and YouTube.
Jody's pick: the Bravo reality show Top Chef, and especially judge Tom Colicchio.
Steve's picks: Captain Beefheart's "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains" from Clear Spot, Everything But the Girl's cover version from Like the Deserts Miss the Rain, and Club Helsinki in Hudson, N.Y.