Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

I first heard about The Dodos back when I was living in Brooklyn and working on my NYC book.  I was hanging out with Mateo, one of my oldest friends in the world, and he was telling me about how his good buddy from college was in a band in