How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually
The Impact of Climate Change on Language Loss
NBC’s Meet the Press devotes the entire show to climate change with no time for deniers
A double diagnosis — cancer while poor
Chronic lying and self-contempt
He Is the Damn Emergency; Post-Speech
The wall speech v. the prediction; it is not about the wall
Celibacy isn’t the cause of the church sex-abuse crisis; the priesthood is
Comic book artist Batton Lash, October 29, 1953 – January 12, 2019
Former Yankees Starter, Pitching Coach Mel Stottlemyre Dies at 77 – I was there at the Stadium when they retired his number
Broadway legend Carol Channing dies at 97
Arthur answers my questions about blogging stuff and gay conversion therapy and current gay issues and his parents
The Crimson Permanent Assurance (Monty Python’s)
Everyday smartness is definitely no match for quotidian stupidity
On books, and joy, and hoarding, and having too many books…
I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon
After 30 years, Elisa Streeter has retired from WTEN-TV 10 in Albany
Every The Dick Van Dyke Show Episode, Ranked
Review time! with ‘Planet of the Apes Visionaries’
Lady Cop: A 70s Comic that Tried (and Failed)
Cookie Monster in the UK, interview by Melissa Nathoo and Cookie Monster visits the Ellen show
Now I Know: The Dog With Strings Attached and Meet Kelly, The Really Smart Dolphin and The Avengers Burial Ground and Why You Can’t Make a Phone Call with a Calculator and How to Beat Traffic in Moscow
11 foot 8 bridge
2018/2019
The Story that Really Mattered
The Worst Political Predictions
35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked to predict the world of 2019
Dave Barry: What made 2018 so awful? A month-by-month look at the most outrageous highlights
MUSIC
Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have – But I Have It – Lana Del Rey, and other songs
K-Chuck Radio: Sail on, Captain… (Daryl Dragon)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Fanfare For The Common Man (complete)
Getting Better – MonaLisa Twins
All Along The Watchtower – Playing For Change
Downtown – Saw Doctors with Petula Clark
Lawyers, Guns and Money – Warren Zevon
Some People, from the Broadway show Gypsy, performed by several big stars
Safety Dance – Men Without Hats
Overture to Johann Strauss’s operetta The Gypsy Baron – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
22 Musicals In 12 Minutes w/ Lin Manuel Miranda, Emily Blunt, and James Corden
Nature Boy: Eden Ahbez and Annie Haslam and Sun Ra
Coverville: 1246: Cover Stories for Marilyn Manson and Foo Fighters and 1247: Cover Stories for Susanna Hoffs and Sade
Dawn over the Land – Night Breeze
I Just Want to Be a Star – Nunsense
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – Sonny Vande Putte
Baby Shark went viral and hit the Billboard Hot 100
How one designer created the “look” of jazz