Burn It Down, Start Again

 

We are officially under construction here at HQ. All tenants of this establishment will be notified of move dates, title changes, office re-arrangements, changes to the internal wiki and social media accounts, password clearances, and procedures for surrendering keys and parking passes, not to mention the results of recent performance reviews to be delivered shortly.

In the meantime, please enjoy these delightful refreshments.

If you're lucky in a lifetime, you get to dig into the nature of mortality with novelist and screenwriter Paul Auster 

I indulge my fondness for the late Ed Ricketts by talking climate change with Dr. Orrin Pilkey.

A look at one of society's favorite (NSFW) words.

On the eve of the election, it's worth taking a look at the great texts of American history.

The great books that draw us together during SDCC.

Beating up social media via word-of-mouth.

A look at urban life through the lens of The City.

To what lengths will an unreasonable man go? Especially if he has a stainless steel rabbit?

 I have nothing but good things to say about the novelist Barbara Kingsolver. A more gracious interview subject doesn't walk upon this Earth of hers.

Nothing funnier than the title "Paris I (Heart) You But You're Bringing Me Down."

"London is a cities of voices, captured by the great and small..."

 The superb journalist Katherine Boo says, "My hope is to devote whatever limited space a reader might grant me to conveying what life is like for the people who can’t get off and walk away."

And Charlie Newton said best when he said, "Hopes and dreams. Some propel you through the fire, some burn you to death."