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Joshua Worden and the ATL sound
Yeah, I’m that guy who FB-befriends everyone with the same name as me. This is partially because I’m self-involved, and partially because I have a not-too-common last name. The upshot is that if your name is Worden, you’ll probably hear … Continue reading
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Tagged Always This, Atlanta, Joshua Worden, Midnight, The Withered Tree
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I culture you: Brews gone bad
For most of human history, there has been beer. The brewing arts were conceived as a way of processing excess grain, of turning it into a longer-lived, refreshing consumable. In its earliest iterations, the introduction of yeast—thus the production of … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, brewing, Food Babe, food purity, foodbabe.com, homebrewing, I culture you, PSA
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RIP Helen Thomas (Aug 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013)
She was a White House correspondent throughout the administrations of nine presidencies, and she counted herself friend to none of them. Opinionated, tenacious, journalistically incorruptible — Helen Thomas was the Grand Dame of the Washington press corps not by seniority … Continue reading
Happy birthday, Rembrandt
Today’s Google Doodle offers a helpful reminder that on this day 407 years ago, there was born in the Netherlands a man who would modernize art, make it accessible, and who would create a body of work so real, so … Continue reading
Books are evolving (and not the way you think)
Plenty has been written about the quantum evolution we’ve witnessed in the world of publishing over the last ten or fifteen years. It’s true that a slim majority of books now in print are actually just that–in print; in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, Columbia College, e-books, Gutenberg press, printing, publishing, Tim Burtonwood, what is culture?
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers … Continue reading
Sigh. Truth.
Plodding and plotting #NotProlific – – but #AmWriting — Pat Worden (@WordsmithWorden) June 27, 2013
RIP Richard Matheson (Feb 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013)
A sad farewell to one of the most prolific and influential writers of whom most people have scarcely heard (which is a terrible thing to say in an obiturary, but it happens to be true and in saying it, I … Continue reading
Being (a hero) John Malkovich
Hats off to insanely talented actor, director, fashion designer (!) and all-around good egg John Malkovich. His filmography alone was already enough to rank him high among The Deconstruction’s favorite peeps. Then he went and saved a life. It happened last Saturday, … Continue reading
Getting to know Francis Bacon
Opportunities to learn pop up quite unexpectedly. You have to be ready to seize them, to revel in them, and yes, to begin learning from them. Their unpredictability demands that. Take for instance my new-found fascination with the life of … Continue reading
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I culture you: The Netflix Files
I am a recent convert to the Netflix experience. And as you probably know, there are no more fervent evangelists than the converts. Not to put too fine a point on it, but streaming entertainment content is what I’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrested Development, Charlton Heston, Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This, comedy, documentary, I culture you, Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull: Nothing is Easy, movies, music, Netflix, Rex Harrison, Shut Up Little Man!, The Agony and the Ecstacy, Tommy Chong, TV, what is culture?
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Freddie Stowers, U.S. Army
Quoting from this blog, Memorial Day 2011: “In the annals of the U.S. military there is no shortage of heroes. We can and should honor them all. But to humanize that process, to put a face on it, I suggest … Continue reading
Get well, Tim Curry
Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery to Tim Curry, an immensely talented actor, and creator of some of the most memorable characters of recent memory. Curry, 67, suffered a stroke on Thursday at his home in L.A. Although … Continue reading
