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Here's my piece on Algore's rediculous "documentary." How one suffers for one's art.
Either link or PDF:
Download 23_jun_06_be_gore_movie.pdf
Also, my usually perfect editor inserted the word drivel where I had written flummery. I mention this only because I never use the word drivel; I just don't like it, even when talking about an idiot like Gore.
Butch Robins
Forty Years Late
Rounder Records
3 stars (out of 5)
Butch Robins is a fine banjo picker with a many ardent fans in the bluegrass world and a memoir that I'm told is quite good. Forty Years Late (originally released in 1977) is solely instrumental, and a fine example of 1970s newgrass. Guests include Kenny Baker, Norman Blake, Sam Bush, Ronnie Reno, Marty Stuart, Buck White and Roland White, so you know it's good.
Here's my contribution to NRO's summer books series.
Let me here reiterate my strenuous praise for Peter Guralnick's Elvis biographies. If someone asked me for a reading list to learn about American music, or America itself, I would tell him to start here.
Why we should have the option to kill heads of state, just like terrorists. Link here, PDF below:
Download be_june_17_2006_zarqawi.pdf
Here's my Examiner column on musician John Cowan.
Here's the PDF:
No one over the age of 40 understands contemporary America like Tom Wolfe. If you haven't read any of his books yet, especially his novels, do so now.
Here's a segment from NPR where Wolfe talks about what makes humans unique in the universe: language. Walker Percy and I agree with Tom.
And here's a talk he gave last month called "What's Southern Today?"
Read why I am against both here or in PDF form:
