Short Schrift

I'm putting Short Schrift on temporary hiatus. But don't worry. I'll write again when I have something that I want to publish he...

Gavin at Wordwright was all over the James Frey disaster from the first, but I thought I would chime in with some recent updates. Of course...

I've long been a partisan of the works of Marcel Duchamp. His use of "ready-mades" was one of the touchstones that grounded my...

Americans have Wal-Mart; Europeans have Ikea. The differences are instructive. Here's one. The story's been kicking around for years...

After I'd come across an unconscious Hurricane Katrina theme in my best of 2005 mix CD , I looked at the rest of the songs I'd been...

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 ...