February 2012
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The Very Last World War I Veteran Has Died →
“A British woman who served with the Royal Air Force for the last two months of World War I was the last known veteran of the war when she died in her sleep Saturday night. Florence Green joined the RAF at the age of 17 and died just before her 111th birthday, which would have been Feb. 19. She had been a mess steward with the air force, the BBC reported, serving in two U.K. air bases...
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January 2012
6 posts
“I see you boys of summer in your ruin.
Man in his maggots barren.
And boys are...”
– Dylan Thomas
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Frankenstein’s Crowdsourced Monster: hitRECord’s... →
The Millions posted an essay of mine today on hitRECord’s new book, in which I basically say this:
“The most remarkable thing about Tiny Stories is the experimental, collaborative process behind its creation and the high quality of work that’s resulted from it. This is not what one would expect from a site where anyone can upload whatever they want and everyone can remix everyone...
“Maybe they’ll get me, and maybe they won’t
But not tonight and it...”
– Bob Dylan
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December 2011
5 posts
Postscript: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011 →
Smart lad to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay, And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose.
November 2011
9 posts
WatchOnly certain people will find this funny. But believe me, it’s pretty funny.
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The Demands of Cold Blood →
Here’s a long essay of mine The Morning News posted today about a story I covered some years ago in Pennsylvania. If you read on please be aware that it’s not a pleasant story.
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Here’s a live version of The New Time...
October 2011
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“… And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of...”
– Philip Roth, American Pastoral
September 2011
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An Incomplete History EP on Bandcamp
Because I don’t see any reason to keep paying for digital distribution, and because it’s all the same on the Internet anyway, my on-again-off-again band’s 2009 EP, An Incomplete History, is now available for free download on Bandcamp.
In the coming months we’ll be releasing a music video for “Michigan” (track 3 from that EP), which we shot on a MacBook Pro...
“Success is only a matter of statistics … failure only means you...”
– Alina Simone’s father
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“Nulla dies sine linea.”
– Horace
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“Yet, through the magic of dull and faulty prose, the contributors to “The...”
– Joseph Epstein, “What Killed American Lit.”
August 2011
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July 2011
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On Bristol Bay →
I’ve been away from the internet for some weeks now and during part of that time I was working, as I’ve done before, on a commercial fishing boat in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The journal n+1 has published an essay I wrote about Bristol Bay and the threat it faces from Pebble Mine, a massive open pit mining operation that will be, if it’s built, one of the largest on the continent....
June 2011
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May 2011
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The National Jukebox
A couple of weeks ago, the Library of Congress made about 10,000 historical recordings available online. They’re calling it The National Jukebox, and it’s pretty amazing. You can stream, for free, all the pre-1925 records from what was once the Victor Talking Machine Company. According to NPR, the archive contains “more than 1300 recordings of operatic repertoire, more than...
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Eakins covers →
”[…] Eakins never had anything but the greatest contempt for his jacket covers. The highest praise he ever gave a book cover was an expression of casual disdain, even though only the finest design artists the world had to offer were employed by his publishers. One understands his sentiment, however. As soon as one opens to...
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Galleries
Why are there so many fantastic bands coming out of Scotland these days?
Darkness Coming by Galleries
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April 2011
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