Last semester, as I drove my car to and from work every day, nearly every time, I listened to the album "Poses," by Rufus Wainwright. The ride is short, usually the length of one song. Sometimes I played the satellite …
Let's not make a regular occasion out of someone's death day. We celebrate Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. on their birthdays. We don't put the holiday on date they were gunned down. Mark October 9th on y…
There's also this article about Paul McCartney suddenly admitting that all the Beatles songs that weren't supposed to be about drugs really were. (Link via Andrew Sullivan .) I think the key observation here is: "th…
State Street was blocked off today for USCF national championship racing. Strangely makeshift safety was provided by duct taping old mattresses to various poles and things that bicyclists might slam into. Nobody slammed into any…