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Friday, November 24, 2017

Ignominy

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Jenny Uglow, from Hogarth: A Life and a World, on Colonel Francis Charteris (1675-1732), landowner, cashiered military officer, and notorio...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Thanksgiving in the Five Points (1852)

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In the 1850s, the Five Points area in lower Manhattan, a now obliterated slum occupying the area adjoining what is now the Foley Square dist...
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Thursday, November 02, 2017

Seasonal note

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Feliz día de las mangostas . None of us recalls the text of the law that obliges us to collect the dead leaves, but we are convinced that i...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

On the Town (Peter Case)

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Two nights after I caught the Vulgar Boatmen show at Martyrs' I headed out to Berwyn, Illinois, on the western outskirts of Chicago, be...
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Monday, October 23, 2017

Harmonic Convergence

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The band known as the Vulgar Boatmen is based in Indiana. They don't play many gigs, and in fact as far as I know they basically don...
Friday, October 13, 2017

An Ainu Ceremony

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From Jude Isabella's article "From Prejudice to Pride," about the history and current state of the Ainu, in the online Hakai ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Hard to Find

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"In response to the question 'Why do you play such strange chords, Mr. Monk?' he once told a disc jockey, 'Those easy chor...
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Sunday, October 08, 2017

Brown study

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It's drizzling today as I write these words, but the woods have been dry for weeks, and with the days getting shorter and the temperatur...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2017

To the center

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Like many in my generation, I grew up knowing the works of Jules Verne primarily through Hollywood adaptations — mostly bad ones — and comic...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Millipede

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Narceus americanus Do millipedes dream? This one wasn't moving when I found it draped over a dead twig this morning. Its head (to t...
Monday, September 18, 2017

The owls

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I was walking on a quiet back street in the next town north. Some twenty feet up in the branches of a great oak that rose up next to the si...
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Friday, September 08, 2017

The world is inside of nothing

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It's funny how the world is inside of nothing. I mean, you have your heart and your soul inside of you. Babies are inside of their mot...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Support DACA

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More information on DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, can be found here .
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Lal Waterson: To Make You Stay

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Mike Waterson's songs on Bright Phoebus, like the title track or "Rubber Band," which contains such whimsical lines as ...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

The Coral Garden of the Forest

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Clavulinopsis Coral reefs aren't doing all that well these days, and in any case there are none within range of a day trip where I...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

Public Service Announcement

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Some practical advice for eclipse-watchers, from Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge.
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come

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In memory of Heather D. Heyer .
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Lal & Mike Waterson: The Scarecrow

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A beautiful, melancholy song with a sinister twist of child sacrifice in the third verse, "The Scarecrow" first appeared on an LP ...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

On Rayuela

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Every novel is philosophical, in that it consciously or (more usually) unconsciously embodies a theory of being. We know that this is true...
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

The Purpose of Things

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Guy Davenport, on family expeditions to gather arrowheads, when he was a child: What lives brightest in the memory of these outings is a Tho...
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