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Jelly Roll Morton and the gritty origins of jazz
At some point in 1938, while employed by the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song to record and preserve regional American music being put at risk by popular music like jazz, music...
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How to have more satisfying sex without actually reading the articles...
I woke up this morning with an idea for a new series on this site. I’m going to start aggregating articles on how to have better sex from magazines like Cosmo, and online sources like Alternet, and...
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Author and illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner on the new film adaptation of her...
We’re not quite sure why, but the woman behind the most talked about coming-of-age movie in the country this summer, author and illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner, has agreed to come on the Saturday Six Pack...
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Phoebe Gloeckner on autopsies, aggression, hating herself as a kid, and...
Celebrated author and illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner was kind enough to stop by the AM 1700 studio this past Saturday night and talk with me for about an hour over bottles of Purple Gang Pilsner....
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“Be Warned”… Cindy Gamrat demands that I apologize to her
I just received an email titled “Be Warned” from someone claiming to be disgraced former State Representative Cindy Gamrat demanding that I make a public apology for having claimed on this site that...
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The real story isn’t that the Russians apparently have video of Trump engaged...
From the very beginning, I’ve thought that the Russians had something sexual on Trump. I’ve kept quiet about this suspicion until now, though, as I recognized that it wasn’t based on anything but a...
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Bulb Records’ Pete Larson reemerges in Kenya with a renewed purpose… to help...
My old friend and former bandmate, Pete Larson, moved to Kenya a few years back to oversee a number of public health related research projects. And, while there, he fell in love with the country’s...
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School shootings, the delay-and-do-nothing right, and those who blame women...
I’d wanted to write about something else entirely tonight, but then I stumbled across the above tweet, and it sent me tumbling through the looking glass, into a pitch-black world of toxic masculinity...
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Mark’s Covid Diary… May 19, 2020
I wouldn’t say that I’m necessarily giving up on the idea of posting longer pieces about specific, god-awful things that are happening in the news. Knowing myself, I think it’s likely that, in the very...
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