Not going to be around to discuss much this week til later, as I am presently at Newport Folk Festival. This week was devoted to music films. I saw three. The first is the big one--I finally saw A Complete Unknown, James Mangold's Dylan biopic...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Robert Park. Born in 1864 in Harveyville, Pennsylvania, Park grew up in Red Wing, Minnesota, where the family moved shortly after his birth. I only.
King Jr Angus With brilliant senators like this, it's no wonder that Democrats have completely figured out how to resist Trump and are ready to fight fascism. Sen. Angus King.
This is the grave of Old Hoss Radbourne (often spelled without the "e" at the end, but I am keeping it for this post). Born in 1854 in Rochester, New York, Charles Radbourne grew up in Bloomington, Illinois, where his family moved the year after...
The Trump administration's attempt to quite literally whitewash American history at the National Parks is beyond depressing. But it does show what happens in America when the nation decides to.
This is the grave of Claude Shannon. Born in 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, Shannon grew up in the nearby town of Gaylord. This was a solidly middle class family. His.
Gen X weeps: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who rose to fame as a teenager playing Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in the mid-1980s, died in Costa Rica on Sunday. He was 54. Warner drowned while swimming at a beach on the Caribbean coast of...
This is the grave of Adlai Stevenson. Ah, finally I get to explore a question I've wanted to have time to consider for a long time--why midcentury Democrats were so.
This 1932 travel film about Argentina is honestly terrible. Now, you might ask, well what do you expect? It's a 1932 MGM travel film about Argentina. And that's fair enough..
The nation has gotten worse in every single way over the last 6 months since Donald Trump returned to power. Trump is far more effective this time, having replaced Uday and Qusay with competent fascists. Republicans continue to be more evil by the day. Democratic...
On July 20, 1885, the British crown gave royal assent to the Chinese Immigration Act in Canada, which placed a $50 tax on Chinese workers and which reinforced the general.
I was so lucky to get to see Swamp Dogg in Portland last weekend. Actually, no. That doesn't sell it. I got to see Swamp Dogg in Portland on his.