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Pandemic Pessimism

Happy belated Vernal Equinox everybody! Trigger warning: Two dark thoughts. 1. Am I the only one who’s been having trouble mentally separating the current pandemic from climate change? As far as I know, there’s no concrete connection. But my intuition says there just has to be, especially since global warning is how we’ve long grown…

Luddite to My Own Devices

By the way everybody, I’ve avoided mentioning this until now but feel I must note this major landmark in life: I am embarrassed to report that two weeks ago I finally threw up the white flag, capitulating to the 21st Century by purchasing one of those smart phone things, mainly because the dumb-phone technology I…

Glitter Rock beats Glam to the NY Times

I haven’t held under a microscope all 687 pages of the copy of Simon Reynolds’s 2016 tome Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century that I picked up at the late great Ed Ward’s estate sale to verify this, but I’m more and more convinced that almost…