Murakami’s Norwegian Wood: Death, Winter, and Love
by Hazel Anna Rogers I first read Haruki Murakami’s ‘Norwegian Wood’ when I was 17, in my first relationship. As it happened, it was my first foray into Japanese literature, […]
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Tips For Better Conversations From Celeste Headlee
by Carl Kruse Apologies for the click-baity title though no click bait here only notes from a Celeste Headlee TED talk in Savannah, Georgia on how to have better conversations. […]
On Walking or Psychogeography
by Fraser Hibbitt I started walking because there was nothing else to do. Walking, I had found, was one way to disperse those sobering complaints of everyday tasks, leaving blind, […]
Music, Memory and the Cloud
by Hazel Anna Rogers My father will often, upon hearing a song from his youth, be able to conjure up when exactly in his life he first heard the song […]
Happy Birthday Bitcoin
by Carl Kruse Twelve years ago some guy (or group of people, nobody knows) called Satoshi Nakamoto, published an 8-page white paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” giving […]
How To Name Your Band
by Carl Kruse So you have put together a band but no idea what to call it. You also are uncertain what to name your new album. Nor are you […]
Poems by Otho Campbell
Here are some poems from my friend Otho Campbell. As he did not title them, I follow the way Emily Dickinson poems are labelled, which is to say by the […]
Divine Twitter Admin Accounts
By Carl Kruse Several Twitter admin accounts were recently compromised allowing a hacker to modify other accounts (see here), bringing even Jeffery Epstein’s Twitter account alive again to say, “I […]
Of Statues and Monuments
By Carl Kruse A focal point of the city of Richmond, Virginia is a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Lee was by all accounts a brave, intelligent man, […]
Buy Bitcoin
By Carl Kruse A few days ago my acquaintances Max and Jonathan asked me about possible stocks to buy. “Look at all the good deals!” they exclaimed. So many good […]
Laethanta na Riabhaiche – The Borrowed Days
During these first days of April snow falls outside making it easier to stay inside in the time of coronavirus. Another April some time ago, while perusing Richard MacFarlane’s Twitter […]
Happy Anniversary JRR and Edith Tolkien
By Carl Kruse Happy anniversary J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien, married on this day in 1916. Tolkien met Edith as a teenager and supposedly became so smitten with her he neglected […]