It seems that everyone harbors secret fantasies of being a writer.
Deep Cuts: Songs About Writing
Top 1 Secrets To An Artistic Life (#1 Blew Our Minds)
Fantagraphics recently published The Complete Peanuts: Comics and Stories, the last of a 26 volume hardcover collection capturing, well, the complete Peanuts.
From The Stacks: ‘Introducing…The Gateway Quartet’
We don’t see many quartets anymore.
Deep Cuts: Songs For Heroes
Who are the good guys? They’re pretty easy to spot in books and movies, where ambiguity is a device rather than a sad reality. In everyday life, though, spotting heroes is more […]
Better Living Through Reading (and Watching)
Let’s use a simple story outline as a thought experiment:
Deep Cuts: Originals Less Famous Than Their Cover Versions
Mary Tyler Moore died recently, and as a tribute a friend of mine posted the song that became the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song. Listening to that track got me to […]
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Smooching)
Colleen Goodwin and Michelle Brown were best friends, and two sides of my second grade love triangle. They looked remarkably alike in a coarse sense: both brown-eyed, black-haired girls in knee socks […]
From The Stacks: Kelly’s Heroes (Soundtrack)
I have a confession to make:
Deep Cuts: Songs For Trees
My neck of the woods experienced some serious winds this weekend, and the trees didn’t like it.
Deep Cuts: Wolf Songs
Wolves make for good music, and why not?
