“One of the duties of the artist – not the only duty, but a central one – is to impel people to imagine the complexity of thought and feeling inside another person.”
Steve Almond: A Decade of Magical Thinking. Excerpt from The Rumpus
September 10, 2011 By 5 Comments
Putin's Got a Pop Song
September 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If I were the prime minister of Russia, I’d want an awesome pop song devoted to me. I’d want it played everywhere I went, and I’d want my young “in-crowd” supporters to scream whenever they heard it. And clearly Vladimir Putin agrees. His own private propaganda song is blasted at rallies and played pretty much [...]
Your Friday Soccer Digest
June 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Vocalyze
“When I was in a men’s group in 1972, I distinctly remember feeling edgy when we would hug.”
“My son and daughter keep reminding me that things are changing.” The times they are a changin’ (comment and Marco Magnani video cover of Bob Dylan song.)