File under forgotten texts. Hermann Broch was a Austrian author from the first half of the twentieth century. He came to writing somewhat later in…
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It was sometime back in the early teens of our current century that I realized something was off. Placing a half-hung morning order at a…
As a Gen-X music listener, it’s pretty hard not to be a fan of U2. At some point they caught your ear, an inescapable part…
By the time The Red Hot Chili Peppers hit the stage, we were whooped. We’d already moshed to Ministry, hollered back at Ice Cube, tuned…
Knocking around odd-ball shops near Golden Gate Park I spied a copy of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. “I’ve never read that,” I said to my…
I might have read The Pilgrim’s Progress before. There is evidence that points in this direction. Snug it sat there in my bookcase, my dilettante’s…
Had a new realization today about one of my favorite lines of poetry: In the shadow of bluffs I came back to myself,To the real…
John William’s Stoner is one of the best novels that you’ve never read, probably never even heard of. It tracks the career of a farmboy…
In 2018, I became a fan of Johnny Marr. It only took thirty years. Three decades after dubbing my buddy’s Queen Is Dead cassette, after…
Dug into a new little book recently, Your Music And People: Creative and Considerate Fame, by Derek Sivers. You may or may not know his…