“The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon”: https://t.ly/qacea 1 ANOTHER BOOK?! I wasn’t planning on writing about it, I wasn’t even sure I was going to read it, but late Saturday night Kevin Fedarko described the experience of running the river… Being at […]

She doesn’t know what else to do. This is a failure of the media/sports industrial complex. We exploit them at younger and younger ages and when they’re spit out the other side…they’ve got no education, few skills, they’ve been to the top and they’re never going to be able to get there ever again. I […]

https://t.ly/zpquh I’m trying to figure out where I found this book. I always start my research on Amazon, because if reviews are good, they print them, and if there are no reviews by notable publications… That’s usually a bad sign. But I went to Amazon and found none of those famous reviews. Which flummoxed me. […]

“Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes” “Changes” David Bowie The Beatles were dismissed as teenage tripe until “Yesterday” and “Michelle,” the backwards vocals of “Rain” and “Sgt. Pepper,” and the adoption of the act by Leonard Bernstein and others in the pantheon of artists respected by establishment. The Beatles wiped out everything that came before […]