Harvard cancer expert Ramzi Amri believes that the death of Steve Jobs was preventable.
The issue at hand is Jobs’ stubborn refusal to pursue conventional medicine, opting instead for “alternative medicine” quackery.
According to a 2008 Fortune article, Jobs for nine months pursued “alternative methods […]
IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon is dead at the age of 33.
Wheldon, a British native, found fame in the United States as a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011. He died after a crash earlier today at the Izod Indy Car World Championships in Las Vegas.
A touch on a turn […]
If homosexuality is still struggling for acceptance in modern society, it was verboten if not a capital crime in 1957. That was when Frank Kameny was fired from his job at the Army Map Service due to the discovery of an earlier arrest (resulting from entrapment) in a mens […]
This is not a book a young man would or could write. There is the sense here of somebody who has seen and considered much, without letting his inner fire cool.
– John Sayles on William Kennedy’s Chango’s Beads and Two Tone Shoes in the Sunday Book Review (
I read a story on The Awl yesterday that left me feeling a bit unsettled.
Michael Walker was acting strangely. The 23-year-old Seattle soundman had just been re-introduced to Sara Merker, a college student a couple years older than he was, and the first […]
I usually spend my lunch eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and trying, in vain, to get some writing done. It almost always fails. I’m never in the right mindset for it, so I end up frstruated and I return to my office in an even more miserable state […]
Celebrated author Jeff Pearlman, whose books include the Roger Clemens retrospective The Rocket That Fell to Earth and The Bad Guys Won, […]
A bonus Troy Night Out will occur this Friday, October 14th in conjunction with the MoHu Arts Festival.
Highlights include a live performance by Ben Karis-Nix in his own space at Design It Together, […]
Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy, not that this cat gives a shit.
I’m truly and sincerely putting forth an honest effort to spend more time reading. But life, or at least 21st Century post-print life, is wrought with distractions that are pleasing at the time but unbearably frustrating after the fact.
Drastic […]
While perusing blogs for some background on a post I’m working on for Mixed Marshall Arts, I came across this gem from photographer Tracy Lee:
(source)
The facial reaction of the guy in the […]
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