The Top 10 Reasons I Love Bear Grylls
Sean Murphy1. His name is Bear. (Not literally, but still…) How did you get the nickname...
High Altitude + Heavy Lifting = This Guy
Some blame it on the rain. Some blame it on the woman. I blame it...
Another Great Bluesman Has Left The Building
John Cephas, R.I.P. Sad news coming across the wire this morning. A nice appreciation in...
YouTube + Marc Ribot = Epic Win.
To continue with the theme from yesterday: Thank god for jazz. Thank god for YouTube....
Art. Ensemble. Of. Chicago.
It’s cold here in DC. There is dirty slush in the streets. We are facing...
Straight, No Chaser
This Sunday’s New York Times magazine features a lengthy, but worthwhile appraisal of John Cheever by Charles McGrath. The...
Mardi gras in my mind
Mardi gras makes me think of New Orleans and all the good things I associate...
Meet the New Dross
Smug? Check. A face you have an irrepressible compulsion to punch? Check. Ambitious as he is talentless? Yup....
A Planet of Playthings
While writing about Flannery O’Connor the other day, I made the half-serious, half-sardonic observation that...
Send Another Moses
While the Republicans continue to reel, and dig themselves a bit further into that crevasse (while,...