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Poetry Break

AMONG THE ROCKS Robert Browning Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets + more

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

In 1972, my home town of Chewelah, Washington was recognized as an All-America City. As a kid, I remember it + more

A(nother) Rant

In an otherwise interesting essay reflecting on nearly two decades of running a record label, Alec Hanley Bemis offers up + more

Miscellany

Happy Monday! I’ve put together some interesting reads to help you start your week off right. You’re welcome. Elle Hunt + more

Recommended

I’m not exactly one of those guys with his finger on the pulse of, well…anything, really. So naturally I’m a + more

Here We Go Again

I feel much the same about presidential debates as I do golf: It’s time that I’ll never, ever get back. + more

Miscellany

Today is the first day of autumn. Or, as I like to refer to it, that day in September when + more

Monday Diversion

If Al Franken drawing a map of the United States from memory can’t bring us all together as a nation, + more

#eyeroll

“Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is one of classical music’s most famous works,” tweeted one of the mouth-breathers at Vox this morning. + more

An Observation

I may have mentioned that I’m reading my way through The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro’s (currently) four-volume biography + more

Local Boy Does Good

Speaking of music (see yesterday’s post for some of the year’s notable recordings), winners of the 2019–20 Ernst Bacon Memorial + more

The Glass Is Half…Something

I think we can all agree that, by and large, 2020 has sucked wet dog fur. BUT. There’s been some + more

Long Reads for the Long Weekend

“Rather than a neat evolutionary line,” writes Florence Hazrat, “imagine punctuation developing as a rhizome, a horizontal mesh of practices, + more

It Was Always Thus

Sure, things are weird right now. But it wasn’t all that long ago that they were—arguably, I suppose—even weirder. I’m + more

Monday Afternoon Diversion

Not sure how I landed on this video—Twitter, maybe?—but after watching it I found myself on the Ant Lab YouTube + more

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