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For the ninth installment in its 1970s ECM Special series, Trio Records in Japan presented its second of three artist spotlights, this time devoted to Ralph Towner, whose guitars have long served as measuring instruments for ECM’s most...
I have begun this 4th of July listening to a variety of podcasts: an interview with The Rest is History British podcasters and David Remnick and a NYT Book Review podcast with Jill Lepore talking about history and good books for...
Video transcript: Glengarry Glen Ross at the Old Vic Theatre sees the cast swap genders, so rather than it being an all-male cast, it becomes an all-female cast, and this is an interesting take on it. It somehow accentuates the...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that...
A worn American flag languishes in the sun at Stemmons Towers in Dallas, Texas. The post Mangled appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Yesterday, it happened again. I had an error message that made me scratch my head. For a moment, I thought, “God, why am I doing this? I should start a garden or something.” I copy-pasted the error message into Google. StackOverflow...
To this point, I’ve talked about Mystery—the fourth of The Four Principles, which are alignment, sensitivity, creativity, and mystery—in terms of ritual and storytelling. The principle of Mystery hinges on the Jungian idea that our souls...
Calls to simplify financial regulation are met with warnings that doing so would destabilise the financial system. Correct?
The Iron Age occupants of this broch had to abandon it in a hurry, but they left behind some clues about their way of life
The saddest thing about the collapse of the US empire is that instead of a dignified decline or a catastrophic collapse, we had to endure the spectacle of the White House being turned into the White Trash House.
Since today is the 4th of July and in most places the beaches are still open, I thought I would revisit, Jaws, with a bonus track. After trying to convince people that Mayor Vaughn wasn’t as bad as people make him out to be, I thought I...
And for today’s post we have May’s monthly Round-Up. I’m over a month behind with these things now, but June’s models should offer me an opportunity to do some more efficient post-catch-up. For the first time in a long time, May also...
Note: Yes I use em-dashes when I write, and no this is not AI. There are three kinds of startups. I have worked at all three — feel free to guess which is which. First, hype-driven startups. It may sound bad, but this is the kind VCs...
Last year, I tried the first of Benjamin Stevenson's Ernest Cunningham novels after some initial skepticism, but Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone (2022) sold me on Benjamin's hilarious, classically-styled meta whodunits and...
From my novel Evertype. Illustration by Trent Reker.