My Kind of Christmas Music
Sean MurphyTchaikovsky Corelli Bach John Fahey The Who Chuck Berry a two-fer from Jethro Tull! The Godfather The Boss Satchmo Ella! (An embarrassment of riches here, here, and here)…
The Wisdom of Crowds: A Celebration of Humanity via YouTube (Part One: Music)
Everyone knows YouTube is the best shortcut to favorite, as well as forgotten video clips. And while it is well worth recognizing, and celebrating, the millions of anonymous DJs…
Observations From The Acela Express: 127 Newark to D.C.
When I first read John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: In Search of America I was a freshman in high school and not yet old enough to drive. Still, I felt…
Mark Twain: The Big Daddy of American Letters
On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn. Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he…