The Triumph of Music and the Downfall of Books in the Digital Age
~by RTod Borders has announced that it is closing it’s doors and beginning liquidation; this of course is already old news in this digital world that killed it. If you are in your...
Daily Archive: July 22, 2011
“The Harrow and the Harvest”: Weep No More My Lady
(I’m writing about Gillian Welch’s The Harrow and the Harvest until I feel like stopping. But really, you should listen to the music more than you should pay attention to me.) Bob Dylan isn’t the only thematic influence...
Explosions, shootings in Norway
Live coverage of the explosions and shootings going on in Norway. These appear to be jihadist attacks. It looks really, really bad. Post updates if you have them. You can see how nationalist parties...
Adverse Possession
I’m of two minds on this story: Kenneth Robinson lives on Waterford Drive in Flower Mound, Texas, but he doesn’t own or rent the home he claims he has a right to live in....
Culture Wars, Word Play, Summer Movies, and Weekend Open Threads
Sometimes I wonder if the culture warriors didn’t have a point about rock and roll… In any case, Captain America comes out this weekend. Friends with Benefits is sure to be a second place...
Euripides: Rhesus and overenthusaistic coyotes
Rhesus is a play about connections missed and badly met that has seldom quite connected with audiences, which is probably why a few nineteenth century critics attempted to disconnect it from Euripides’s body of work. My own...
