I want desperately to tell everyone what am amazing, mind-blowing, harrowing, beautiful book The Road is, but I don’t have the words. And, honestly, I don’t think there are words — anything I say about it would fall so short of capturing the experience of actually reading the thing that it would amount to a [...]
We didn’t get much time in Vancouver, alas. I’ve heard nothing but lovely things about this place, and it would have been very cool to actually meet all the excellent people I’ve been working with for the past year. But no. The imperatives of recreational travel mandate that we proceed directly from airport to dock, [...]
Canada: socialist outpost on the proud shores of Mother Capitalism.
We only spent two hours in Toronto, all of it in the airport, most of it in line at customs — but if there’s one thing I’ve learned from our president, it’s that all you need to do to understand something is look into its soul [...]
The TSA man stands on the other side of the magic portal. I smile, uncertainly, but he glares at me with some unstable concoction of impatience, distaste and contempt, and gestures. I interpret this as a summoning, and step through.
But the magic portal is angry. It emits a series of high-pitched beeps. Beep beep, it [...]
My friend Clay Sails has put together another album, called Not In Kansas. It’s really good, as consistently engaging and it is stylistically diverse, with tracks ranging from folkish ballads to funk interludes to catchy, electronically-infused pop tunes to kick-ass rock screeds. It’s already in heavy rotation on my iPod.
You can download the full album [...]
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