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Aaron Bragg

Eye (and Ear) Candy

Steven Wilson’s The Raven that Refused to Sing is number 9 in Prog magazine’s list of the 100 greatest prog albums of + more

Field of Dreams

Back when I was a callow youth, July and August meant one thing: harvest. I drove both truck and combine + more

Stop! Grammar Time!

On page 147 of my copy of Stephen King’s On Writing are the most important words ever written on the subject: “If + more

Happy Birthday, Jerry

Back in 1942, BBC Radio broadcast the first episode of “Desert Island Discs,” a weekly program that asked guests to choose eight pieces + more

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

I discovered the following from the Twitter feed of A Way with Words, the weekly public radio program. Turns out it came from + more

“Yeah I’m a writer deal with it.”

Want to read “the story of what it means to live in a cultural climate that stifles almost every creative + more

New Music

How’s about some Big Bill Broonzy—as interpreted by brothers Dave and Phil Alvin*—to start the weekend? It’s a little tune called “Saturday Night + more

Wow. Just…wow.

Do you think that the Weird Al video I shared last week is funny? Kevin Gallagher, who refers to “garden-variety internet pedants” + more

This Day in History

T. H. White’s July 23, 1934 diary entry, which he later published in England Have My Bones, a memoir about country living: “There is something + more

Every Noise at Once

Ever wonder what an “algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1251 genres” + more

Word Crimes

The estimable Mike Miller—who handles all programming- and IT-related matters around here—seems to think “Weird Al” Yankovic and I are kindred + more

The REALLY Deep South

“What I was hearing didn’t sound like it came from someone of this generation, even of this century. I was + more

Charlie Haden, RIP

One of American music’s singular voices has been silenced: I just got an email announcing the death this morning of + more

Stop! Grammar Time!

Writing in Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, the great Clive James points out that, “as Kingsley + more

Inspiring

This is one of those ideas you wish you’d come up with yourself—simple and seemingly obvious, yet brilliantly creative. I + more

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