All Things To All People
I just discovered this weekend that KCTS-9 in Seattle, WA dropped Mister Rogers from the daily lineup — I wrote an email, and this was the reply I got: Thank you for your interest in KCTS 9 and especially “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”….
On Saturday, 27 June, I saw a concert by Steve Wynn and his band, the Miracle 3, at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Before I attended this show, I did not really know anything about Steve Wynn. I was aware that he…
Cover of Histoire de Melody Nelson [Purchase CD] I’m going to have to pay more attention to Light In The Attic; they seem to be all over reissuing cool stuff. I was really pretty impressed with the Betty Davis records they found…
Cover of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic [Purchase Book] I really love the way Alison Bechdel draws eyes. They almost always suggest a sense of weariness, even on children. Eyes are often said to be the most striking feature of the face,…
Image via Wikipedia So, I have finished Gravity’s Rainbow! I’m not sure if this has messed with anyone the way I ended up doing the read-along, where the first four or so are 50 pages per, and then the last ones were…
[Purchase CD] There are a few albums that I wish I’d been alive to get into when they were released — just for what it must have been like to drop the needle on them for the very first time. The first…
“If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.” –Gus Grissom,…
On June 18, 2009, the Supreme Court of the US made what appears to me to be an utterly baffling, shocking and deeply offensive decision. In Alaska, William Osborne was convicted of kidnapping, assault and rape, though he maintains he is innocent….
[Purchase Book] “Sputnik 2 was not designed to be retrievable, and Laika had always been intended to die.”
A promise or a threat fulfilled — I’m doin’ wider spans, like I said I would last week! So, there! At least we’ve kind of hit the part of the novel where it really carries you along with its flow — it’s…