W.C. Fields Playing Cards, 20th century Midcentury...
Sep 30th
While walking through a terminal at JFK last month, I saw...
Sep 29th
Ed Kohler found this while running on 35th Street. I’m...
Sep 28th
Walgreens asked me to me if I wanted to be a fan on...
Sep 28th
Items currently in use as bookmarks.
A Metro Transit transfer from March (Edwin Mullhouse, Steven Millhauser) A hot pink Post It...
Sep 27th
Watch
Remember the night of the Dexy’s Midnight Runners pub crawl? Last year or so? Everyone dressed...
Sep 25th
The wonderful Minneapolis poet Dobby Gibson has discovered a...
Sep 24th
"On Disappearing," Jan Estep.
Sep 24th
The Guardian recently ran an interesting list of the best...
Sep 24th
That’s my colleague Pete McLarnan, standing on the...
Sep 23rd
The chronological broadcast of every...
Here’s an excerpt from a piece of speculative journalism, entitled “Boob Tube Liberation...
Sep 22nd
"Me and Mrs. Palin."
Sep 21st
After a weekend meeting with a key member of the S. 12th...
Sep 21st
For the benefit of my eager young...
Sep 18th
Selections from the S. 12th personal...
A few years ago I was sitting at the bar at Nye’s Polonaise with a friend, making the...
Sep 18th
“Aht is, er, uh, trooth.” Our pal Scott Nedrelow...
Sep 17th
I am pleased to report that Kaplan Brothers on Lake Street...
Sep 16th
How like a god.
Inspired by Elizabeth Wilcox’s recent-ish essay on Withnail & I, I have assembled here a...
Sep 16th
El Grito de Dolores.
The neighborhood seemed unusually lively this evening when I biked home; there was clearly some sort...
Sep 16th
Health code violations.
Sep 15th
Listen
I had this song stuck in my head over the weekend, thinking it was Desmond Dekker, and driving...
Sep 14th
In Which We Attend the Great...
It was OK. The vendors weren’t as good this year. This one girl had some neat handkerchiefs...
Sep 14th
VERY EASY QUIZ: Blog heading or chapter...
In Which We Prepare to Fight the Spaniard In Which We Try To Guess What A Thom Yorke Twilight...
Sep 14th
“Don’t worry. ‘05 was a heady year before we realized we needed discipline. At...
Sep 11th
Conversations I am fairly sure I...
Stately old man sitting behind me in the movie theater: “Do you know who is playing the lead...
Sep 11th
If I owned a bar.
It would be all glass blocks and wood paneling. It would only serve beers named after eminent...
Sep 11th
I was out at the Town Talk with a friend a few weeks ago,...
Sep 10th
Brilliance and disaster.
Sep 10th
Help him be a good boy.
Sep 9th
So the Big Star box set just came out, which is exciting,...
Sep 9th
Two late-breaking Ted Kennedy-related...
The night after Ted Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama for president, I had a very high stakes date with...
Sep 9th
Listen
The old tumblelog looks the same as I step down from the train. But down the road I look and there...
Sep 3rd