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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
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Tag Archives: Oscar Wilde
Murphy’s Laws: 46 Infallible Observations on the Occasion of Turning 46
After 46 spins around the sun, you probably haven’t had an especially worthwhile time if you don’t have some opinions you’re willing to stand by. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged 60s, Bach, Beethoven, Capitalism, David Lynch, Dick Cheney, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, jimi hendrix, Julie Newmar, Libertarianism, Marvin Hagler, MFA, Miles Davis, Mozart, Muhammad Ali, murphy s law, Murphy's Law, Oscar Wilde, Pedro Martinez, Peter O'Toole, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, thelonious monk, Top Gun, Wagner, Werner Herzog
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David Bowie: The Man Who Owned the World
David Bowie didn’t merely innovate; he wrought aesthetic and stylistic changes and, like an irrepressible Pied Piper, people followed him wherever he went. Continue reading
Arthur Cravan: Pugilist, Poet, Provocateur, Ponce, and the Queering of the Queensbury Rules
Arthur Cravan’s ambivalent burlesque of boxing was —as was typical of his style— a public insult and act of revenge against the Marquis of Queensbury. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations
Tagged Arthur CRavan, boxing, Marquis of Queensbury, Oscar Wilde, Queensbury Rules
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Monday Rock City: Rick Springfield on Sex, God & the Upside to Being Mistaken for Bruce Springsteen
HISTORY HAS REVEALED THAT POP MUSIC experienced its most ambitious expansion—its unqualified Golden Age—in the 80s, when sharply-crafted hits from well-heeled acts like Duran Duran and Culture Club shared mainstream real estate with infectiously kitschy pap like “She Blinded Me … Continue reading
Posted in Monday Rock City
Tagged ac/dc, Bon Scott, Bruce, J.M. Blaine, Jamie Blaine, Jessie's Girl, malcolm young, Noah Drake, Oscar Wilde, Rick Springfield, Sound City, The Valentines, Valentine, Working Class Dog, Zoot
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The 50 Greatest Literary Character Names of All Time
Greg Olear whittles the Who’s Who of all of literature down to the 50 top names. Continue reading
Posted in 50 Greatest
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, Beverly Cleary, Bram SToker, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Don DeLillo, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francine Prose, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Herman Melville, Joe Heller, Laurence Sterne, Margaret Mitchell, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Pauline Reage, Raoul Dahl, Richard Wright, Robert Heinlein, Roberto Bolano, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, the Brontë sisters, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Harris, Thomas Pynchon, Truman Capote, Victor Hugo, Walker Percy, Washington Irving, William Faulkner, William Gibson, William Goldman
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