If the Midd Kid vid taught us what $50K a year buys you at Middlebury College, I guess this must be what half that — one-third if you’re in-state — gets you at Keene State. Not a bad deal, all things considered. Anyway, here is “Granite State of Mind,” a clever little spoof of Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind,” from Boston-based satirists The Super Secret Project. Enjoy! (And note the nod to VT about midway through.)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bX7nQrCgALM%26hl%3Den_US%26fs%3D1%26

Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to see rock shows for a living. He became assistant arts editor in 2017 and culture coeditor in 2021. Bolles has received numerous local and national awards for his writing on Vermont arts, sports and the occasional celebrity canine murder mystery. He loves...