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Seattle Addled May 27, 2024
So my wife and I visited Seattle a couple of weekends ago. It’s one of those cities I’d never had any particular interest in visiting, but I was sure it was one of America’s great cities, and I had the impression that it was quaint, walkable, and his...
How the #Resistance Put Nellie Bowles Out in the Scold May 17, 2024
Nellie Bowles was a good leftist: she ran the gay-straight alliance at her high school, read The Nation, reported for the New York Times and even proudly joined the cancellation of a white author friend, ahem, ex-friend, caught up in a literary race ...
Make America Grunge Again February 22, 2023
Twenty-five years ago, in an act of apathetic surrender to mediocrity, rock and roll announced its precipitous decline into irrelevance. The event that marked rock’s demise was Billboard’s 1998 decision to name Creed—known for such immediately overpl...
Neil LeVang - Ghost Riders In The Sky (1961) February 13, 2023
Neil Levang was an American musician who was best known from television's The Lawrence Welk Show, playing guitar, violin and banjo. Levang joined the United States Coast Guard in 1951 which took him to Seattle, Washington. There he continued in the m...
