Lughnasadh or Lughnasa (pronounced /ˈluːnəsə/, LOO-nə-sə; Irish: Lúnasa, /ˈl̪ˠuːn̪ˠəsˠə/; Scottish Gaelic: Lùnastal, [ˈl̪ˠu:nəsd̥əl̪ˠ]; Manx: Luanistyn, [ˈluanɪst̪ən]) is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season.
Read moreWorking societies need “moral universals” to civilize them. I don’t often do quick-link-to-some-other-post posts, but here I’m making an exception. Umair Haque has an article up at Medium called “The End of the American Experiment: It’s Over. So What Can the World Learn?”
Read moreArt can be an incremental process. Then there are times when, without warning, you find yourself caught in the throes of some muse’s dying, orgasmic spasm, well and truly beyond any rational explanation.
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After a long, distinguished career of talking the talk and then cowering like a whipped bitch caught with her nose in the trash, John “Mavericky McMaverickstain” McCain finally did something right. Republicans’ seven-year quest to wipe out President Obama’s Affordable Care Act came to a crashing halt around 1:30 this morning, when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) shockingly bucked his party and
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Icarus (a small self-portrait) Dandelions think they’re bluebells. Moths believe they’re butterflies. No one told them, or they wouldn’t listen. What if I’m mistaken, begoggled, peddling DaVinci’s madman machine toward high noon?
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And by “girlfriend experience,” I don’t mean the prostitution/sugar daddy thing. I mean the kind of experience that Floyd Mayweather routinely lays on the women in his life. My initial reaction to the talk of a Floyd Mayweather/Conor McGregor match was bafflement: what the fuck are McGregor and Dana White thinking? He’s going to get beaten senseless. If it’s a pure
Read moreThere are some great old neon signs on South Broadway in Denver/Englewood. These are of the Gothic Theatre. (All shots in this series are taken in Englewood, a ‘burb bordering Denver to the south. But hey, it’s all Denver to me.)
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[UPDATED July 16, 2018] I wrote this just over a year ago. And the only thing that was off is that I think I underestimated. I know a lot of people, and I’ve had a year to watch, to listen, to discuss, to take stock. My conclusion is that most of us are worse off than we were when I
Read moreUp today, the greatest band of all time collaborates with Mark Ronson, Queen, Pink Floyd, A-Ha, Blondie, the Jackson 5, Motley Crue and The Nine Inch Nails. (Bonus points if you got that joke.) We haven’t done a mashup SVR lately, so away we go. This first one has no video, but you have to hear the song.
Read moreThis is the best thing you’ve seen all week.
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America is a great idea, but it’s hard to love these days. At some point tonight millions and millions of us will find ourselves sitting in a stadium or a park or maybe on a city rooftop or a grassy hill in the country, staring at the sky, celebrating our country’s anniversary by watching the annual fireworks show. I won’t
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Bartlett, long a fluffer for those who helped make America suck again, has now rebranded himself as a principled serious person who can be counted on to criticize both sides. You know, seriously. All he’s doing, though, is proving that us non-serious wackadoodles are right. Dear Bruce: please do fuck off. Bob Burnett has posted a crisp analysis of what’s
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