Marshall McLuhan popped into my mind at JFK as I watched the boarding call for my flight to Cairo on Egypt Air. The effects of media on human behavior: I remembered a passage where McLuhan says a prin… more →
The Drunken Priest & Timid Scholarpaullamb wrote 2 days ago: I remember reading long ago that those who read exclusively for plot are something like those who ca … more →
H.C. Johns wrote 4 days ago: I apologize for the light posting over the last couple days… Job search stuff occasionally win … more →
tinadimeo wrote 6 days ago: How stupid have we become as a nation? Following my rant is an email that’s traversing the cou … more →
Boarding School Girl wrote 6 days ago: Ok so, there are officially zero people reading this blog, but I’ve decided that I’m goi … more →
barrycyrus wrote 1 week ago: I wish I was Sherman McCoy— a $1,000,000-a-year Wall Street investment banker. I wish I was living i … more →
stevenhartwriter wrote 1 week ago: Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the U.S. release of Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee’s … more →
Schatzi wrote 1 week ago: An old picture I forgot I had: My copy of Bonfire of the Vanities, and what was turned in to the Lo … more →
Ken Coach wrote 2 weeks ago: “Freedom of the press belongs to those that own the distribution system. Perhaps that has always bee … more →
owenstrachan wrote 2 weeks ago: Got alot for you today. 1. Here’s a helpful talk Tim Keller did on raising kids in the city. … more →
peter wrote 2 weeks ago: . . . Normance is a full-throttle grotesquery. The prose rears up at the reader like an exploding gr … more →
zooeyibz wrote 2 weeks ago: Posted by Cila Warncke Tom Wolfe Tom Wolfe’s famous new journalism is nothing but an abdication of t … more →
electricarguments wrote 2 weeks ago: A working title. And another work in progress. One shouldn’t have to piggy back on the titles … more →
Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 weeks ago: Las Vegas has become, just as Bugsy Siegel dreamed, the American Monte Carlo—without any of the ine … more →
Rich Pulvino wrote 3 weeks ago: The late 1960’s were one of the most interesting and pivotal times in American history. The h … more →
tasna wrote 4 weeks ago: Just What the Hell is ‘Socialism’? by the Tasmanian National-Anarchists Some anarchists … more →
chapmanchapman wrote 1 month ago: Jonathan Lethem, Si Newhouse, and Tom Wolfe. : : : : : : : : … more →
ebeneeezer wrote 1 month ago: The world of bassists is a colorful one, full of distinct personalities that I’m convinced wou … more →
ebeneeezer wrote 1 month ago: A few months ago, I decided, against any semblance of financial wisdom, to buy a new bass. The last … more →
sliska777 wrote 1 month ago: Book: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Author: Tom Wolfe Publication Date: 1968 … more →