Blockers can optimize the development of preferred physical characteristics. In trans girls, blockers initiated prior to the development of male secondary sex characteristics will effectively prevent voice deepening, skeletal enlargement, and penile enlargement.

A canny business strategist who tends to express himself tersely — even more so now that his voice has been hoarsened by several strokes — he has rarely consented to interviews.

Finally came Mr. Banhart, who was happily complicated: he served as comic relief, loud contrast, an embodiment of the music’s stereotypes and an overturner of them.

Only the Dead's resurgence, and the Airplane's reformation, could be viewed as part of the Woodstockian nostalgia (a fascination that had as much to do with politics and cultural events from twenty years previous as it did with music and fashion) that gripped the media in the late 80's.