And while I frequently employ language that’s absurd, dark, and apocalyptic, it’s a reminder that with time comes loss, no matter how hard you were laughing. How do we face that loss? By being as ridiculous as possible. Because in the end, everything is beautiful, sad, terrible, or...
When asked to pick one place where the Delta Blues began, BB King pointed to Dockery Farms in Cleveland, Mississippi, where legends were born. On a wet spring morning, I peel back the branches and weeds that cover what was once a stage on which Charlie Patton, fretting his guitar with a...
My take on it:I occasionally like to delve into the post-apocalyptic realm in movies and books, but I need it to seem actually realistic (I couldn’t stomach more than 20 pages ofDivergent). This one wasn’t predictable, with several twists I didn’t expect, but it moved kind of slow...
And while I frequently employ language that’s absurd, dark, and apocalyptic, it’s a reminder that with time comes loss, no matter how hard you were laughing. How do we face that loss? By being as ridiculous as possible. Because in the end, everything is beautiful, sad, terrible, or...
The Postmodernist cohort came of age during the early Cold War era. The Soviet dominance over eastern Europe and the threat of apocalyptic nuclear war made it an anxious time; but during the Forties and Fifties, High Middlebrow — working closely with Highbrow (for example, the collaboration be...