Posted: Fri Jun 07 2013 Note: this is a longer transcript of our Jim O’Rourke interview I woke up with this awful hangover today... Me too, me too. I got a bottle of this nihonshu called ‘Taxi Driver’. It's a local thing – usually you can only get it in Golden Gai, but some guy who made it gave me a…

The 1992 election of Bill Clinton and Al Gore ushered in a electorally successful but ultimately unfulfilling era for the Democratic Party. (Reuters) It's obvious to any sane Republican that the GOP n

I regularly get emails from young people, usually those with an interest in programming, who are trying to make decisions about school and/or their professional futures. This post is for those young people. If you’re in your late teens or early twenties, you’ve grown up in a world that has come to…

Listen to a sample of "Elder Green Blues" (1.19MB wav) Born in April 1891, between Edwards and Bolton in southern Mississippi, Charley Patton was the scrawny child of sharecropper parents. In 1900, his family moved 100 miles north to the Delta and the Will Dockery Plantation. There Patton fell under…

CHRIS FORSYTH There is a certain personality, musical or otherwise, that seems to make place and time bend to their will. These kinds of people appear to define the space they live in, anthropomorphizing neighborhoods or cities or nations in a way that defies you to believe that they weren't born…

Memory is a tricky thing, whether it’s an individual’s or collective. We tend to pine away over past events, romanticizing the trivial, and over-inflating the grandeur of some lost past moment… anything but reveling in the actual and ever-real now. What’s that word again? Oh right, “nostalgia.” We…

Flickr / torbakhopper If you want to get a sense of how college students approach sex, the play Speak About It is a pretty good place to start. It's a series of skits written by students at Bowdoin, a

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Logos, Flags, and Escutcheons by Paul Rand “I t reminds me of the Georgia chain gang,” quipped the IBM executive, when he first eyed the striped logo. When the Westinghouse insignia (1960) was first seen, it was greeted similarly with such gibes as “this looks like a pawnbroker’s sign.” How many…

Directed by Dr. Michel Cohen Pediatrician Ceridwen Author, Parenting Educator ANG! “Okay mister, that’s it! I’ve told you not to bang on the TV! What if you break it? TVs cost a lot of money, you know, and Mommy had to work very hard to buy that TV. Oh, look at the kitten!” BANG! “Jimmy, I told…

I return to my Life Counter every year at this time, at the very start, to do a brief “look ahead” to put everything (as the late David Foster Wallace refers to as the “skull sized kingdom” of our fix

The Philosophy Issue Charles Humphrey, 10 May 2011 Wang Ningde/Galerie Paris-Beijing Audio version read by George Atherton – Right-click to download An impenetrable gray haze so thick that the sun is but a dull red glow, a candle in the mist. Gas and electric motorcycles jerry-rigged with steel…