Short Schrift

Last year, I got a Best of 2004 mix CD exchange going with some of my music loving friends (and friends of friends). This was hot on the hee...

Not long after Pitchfork came out with their Top 50 Albums of 2005 , I started working on my own list. Well, actually, I just put it togeth...

Newspapers have genres (e.g., student, entertainment, state fair, socialist) and journalism has genres (not just food, entertainment, and ...

If you haven't seen it yet, the Chronicles of Narnia video-rap sketch (aka "Lazy Sunday") from this past week's Saturday ...

What's the best way to tell that the United States is a politically backwards place? It's not that our President thinks torture and ...

I recently came across a new and (I think) noteworthy web site covering the 2007 Philadelphia mayoral election: The Next Mayor. It's a ...

Since I passed my second qualifying exam last Thursday, I've been trying to organize myself better. So I've been making small change...

That's right -- the end of the world, where we all collapse beneath the weight of our own obstinacy, stupidity, hypocrisy, and greed. At...

Grrrggh... Can't blog... Must read constantly for qualifying exam on history of English literature... What's the relevance of The Ca...

Via Attytood , my new favorite Philadelphia blog: MercuryNews.com reports that McClatchy, the family-run newspaper group that owns (among ...