These Things Too

1949 Gibson J-45 The first "good" guitar I owned was a Guild D-25 that I bought from a shop in Northeast Philadelphia, somewhere...

This is the way the internet works. This is the way information flows here in the 21st Century. A Bob Dylan fan, I was looking around on t...

"When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money." — Alice Adams "Tho...

Two of the books I'm reading at the moment are Dave Van Ronk's brilliant memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street , and Harvey Pekar...

I got this idea from my friend Nora's blog . Today is my birthday, and these are the first 55 things that showed up on the screen when I...

Jeeves and Wooster My wife hates it when I do it when she's with us but, for quite some time now, I lie, quite pathologically, when str...

Our mutants, in six hundred dollar speedo suits, can beat your mutants When the Chinese swear the girl is really sixteen Chuck Berry must la...