I'm not here to tell you about Justified, the Elmore Leonard–based FX television series that ended this week after six terrific seasons. I'm not here to tell you why it was my favorite show, or why I look forward to rewatching it even more than
Tomorrow morning I expect to be disappointed. Like many of you, I've been following the Serial podcast for the past few months. My reactions to the previous eleven episodes have ranged from bored to enthralled to confused, but I'm pretty sure that tomorrow's final
On a return trip to Tuesday Funk on November 4, 2014, former co-host William Shunn read one of his signature poems, followed by an excerpt from his science fiction story "Our Dependence on Foreign Keys," later published under a very slightly different name at Across the Margin.
It's been several months since I posted an Ella video, so I figure we're overdue. Here's one I took this past Saturday at Astoria Park during off-leash hours. Ella spies a squirrel foraging far out on the meadow. For a while she just watches,
Today is the 200th anniversary of the London Beer Flood. I'd tell you all about, but Kyle Thiessen explains it far better than I ever could (and the Boston Molasses Flood too) in his Fake Month at the Museum series: So wherever you are, raise a glass today
This poem debuted live at Tuesday Funk #48 in Chicago on September 4, 2012, the same day it was written. I've submitted it to a few editors since then, but since they (probably sensibly) turned it down, my birthday present to myself is to publish it here. It
At his final Tuesday Funk as a co-host in Chicago, on December 3, 2013, William Shunn read an excerpt from his novelette "After the Earthquake a Fire" (later published in Bloodstone Review.)
At his final Tuesday Funk as a co-host in Chicago, on December 3, 2013, William Shunn offered a brief history of the series's Poems by Bill feature.
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