Rhett Miller’s Superfriends: Dan Piraro

We asked Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller to guest edit magnetmagazine.com this week, and he pawned it off on a bunch of his famous friends: other musicians, actors, writers and comedians. Well played, Rhett. But you can’t hide behind a self-titled solo album. Rhett Miller (Shout! Factory), a Beatlesque beauty featuring Jon Brion, is out this week.

Dan Piraro is a surrealist. For a living. That is so cool. He pens the long-running, award-winning comic strip Bizarro, performs comedy onstage in front of people (terrifiying!) and puts his money where his mouth is by devoting an enormous amount of energy to vegan causes and animal-cruelty prevention. Good man. Dan Piraro recommends:

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