RIP Ronan MacScottie: 9/3/02-10/19/14
Earlier this morning I had my dog, Ronan, put to sleep. If you know me, and if you knew us together, then you know how I feel right now. Ronan had been sick for over a week.
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Jurgen Klinsmann vs. Don Garber at Hell in a Cell: it’s just not that complicated, folks
A few days ago there was another dust-up between US Men’s National Team manager Jurgen Klinsmann and MLS Commissioner Don Garber. In the aftermath we’ve heard analysis upon analysis, take after take, all trying to sort things like why can’t we all get along and why does Jurgy hate America?
Read moreThe Healing Blues: musicians unite against homelessness
An old friend, Jon Epstein, is involved with Greensboro College’s Healing Blues Project, which aims to to raise $30,000 for the Interactive Resource Center, a tax-exempt, nonprofit day center in downtown Greensboro for people experiencing homelessness. I’m not even going to bother explaining why this is a worthy cause, and honestly, I’m not sure what I could say that makes the
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Ello: some interesting follow recommendations for our new social network
There’s been some back and forth here in the last couple of weeks about Ello, the new social network. If you’re on Ello, or are thinking of joining, here are some people you might want to investigate and possibly follow. Let’s start with the S&R folks. @docdenny is, as you know, god of macro photography, and lately he’s been experimenting with
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Taken at Boneyard Beer in bend, OR.
Read moreEllo: some thoughts on why there isn’t much political discussion on our controversial new social network
In the last week or so I have seen an amazing amount of energy devoted to burying Ello. Mind you, it hasn’t launched yet. Still in beta. These folks are trying to kill it before the doors officially open. What’s weird is the range of attacks I’m seeing. Business insiders patting it on the head and ‘splaining why, noble as
Read moreUsing Facebook to promote school fundraisers: a friend goes ballistic
A friend of mine has been using Facebook to solicit contributions for his son’s school fundraiser. He’s not alone – I’ve seen more and more of this lately, and perhaps you have, too. Last night he exploded – apparently despite all his pleas, he got no response. As in, zero. He went off on his FB friends in ways that
Read moreS&R Honors: Edmund Blackadder
Scholars & Rogues has been around for seven and a half years or so, and during that time we have evolved. Early on we were a political blog with a culturalist bent. These days we’re a “journal of progressive culture” – in a nutshell, we’re a culture blog informed by a strong political foundation. Our writing wanders far and wide,
Read moreGotham: four quick thoughts
We’re two episodes into Gotham, the new Batman prequel series, and we may be on the verge of the greatest iteration of the famed (and occasionally overdone) franchise yet. Some brief observations. 1: Robin Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot is fucking awesome. If this keeps up, he’s going to rival Heath Ledger’s Joker as the ultimate series villain. 2: Camren Bicondova can
Read moreSay Ello: six observations about the world’s newest social network
A month ago most of you had probably never heard of Ello. By now a lot of you have. And at the pace the news has been getting around in the past few days, this time next week even hermits will know about it. The short version is that Ello is the brainchild of a team of designers and developers
Read moreBeeline: Classical Gas Museum, Embudo, NM
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A week in photography at 5280 Lens Mafia
If you don’t know our sister site, 5280 Lens Mafia, you’re missing out. Here’s some of the wonderfulness from the past few days. Up first, Dr. Denny, who has been doing some wonderful things with the Oil Paint filter.
Read moreConservatives uncover Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy®: yawn
A prominent political “news” site has gotten its hands on a year’s worth of archives of a “top secret” Google Group of liberal activists called the Gamechanger Salon.* According to the emails, the group reportedly includes prominent members of the Occupy movement, “Democrats, Sierra Club officials, journalists who work for The Huffington Post and The Nation magazine, senior union representatives,
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