strictly roots.
A few pointers for you:
In sad news, those of us into radical organizing and pedestrian newspaper comics lost two heroes this weekend — Utah Phillips, the famed old man of IWW folk singing, passed on Friday and Thelma Keane, wife of Bill and model for the mommy in The Family Circus, shed the world on [...]
I’m kind of absentee this week because I’m working on my cover story, which, with any luck, will be in the issue of June 4. Last weekend I saw some bands at the Brillobox and saw a play (Rabbit Hole), and the Pens won the conference finals, but there’s really little time to discuss any [...]
So, as promised, this weekend, took the mother to the Bayernhof Museum for Mother’s Day. Actually went Saturday, but that’s inconsequential.
What’s up with this place, you ask?
It’s perched above the Allegheny, above Sharpsburg, above Highland Park and all that, in O’Hara. It was built in the ’70s by an eccentric rich guy named Charles [...]
First things first — only really a couple things of note about the SFJ lecture from like two weeks ago that I’m just writing on now:
Overall, I think if he had had something specific to start off talking about, it might’ve had more direction and been a little more focused — I think doing the [...]
Will the busy-ness never end? Likely not. In the meantime, feast your eyeballs on this stuff I wrote in the paper this week:
Arco Flute Foundation reunion
Fucked Up
The other day I was out in the backyard planting my chard and sweet peas and I saw a thing that made me wish very badly that I had a camera, preferably one with some serious zoom capabilities: a tiny red ant — yknow, a TINY TINY ant — carrying a dandelion seed, with the [...]
In line today at Rite Aid, I saw these:
Do you think they’re, yknow, THAT kind of brownie? The name and general aesthetic of the packaging point to that being the case.
Speaking of which, remember the Detroit cop who made pot brownies with confiscated weed then thought he was dead? I never actually listened to the [...]
I have things to say in response to and/or inspired by the Sasha Frere-Jones lecture the other night but I don’t really have time to organize my thoughts, as I have work to do. Maybe over the weekend I’ll get around to it. Maybe. As if you all cared, all two of you. *eats worms*