The date turned over again. September 10. It’s been a year since Charlie Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University. I’ve sat with this one longer than most. Six versions, give or take, each one trying to get closer to what I actually meant. This morning the coffee was still hot when I decided thisContinueContinue reading “Late to the Argument”
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Still Getting to Know Pacifico
I interviewed a musician named Matthew Schwartz once, if you can call it that. Cropped black hair. Thick-framed black glasses. Quiet and unassuming. In 2015 I ran a short fill-in-the-blank Q&A article for my blog called Meet Me In The Sound. The headline was “Getting to Know Pacifico”—the obvious one, the kind I still reachContinueContinue reading “Still Getting to Know Pacifico”
Don’t Trust Anyone Under 40 (An Open Letter From My Recliner)
(And yes, I’m writing this from a recliner, which already proves I’ve abandoned any remaining pretense of ambition.) Look, I’m not saying young people are bad. Dirty socks are bad. I’m saying they move through the world like somebody gave them a fresh set of knees and a license to ignore every sentence that wasn’tContinueContinue reading “Don’t Trust Anyone Under 40 (An Open Letter From My Recliner)”
Deep Blue Intro: The Art of Sylwia Perczak
I recently came across a post that placed a Chesterton line—“If there were no God, there would be no atheists”—beside Sylwia Perczak’s painting of Saint Christopher. The pairing felt odd; the quote and the image seemed to have little to do with each other. Yet the painting itself held me. The longer I looked atContinueContinue reading “Deep Blue Intro: The Art of Sylwia Perczak”
Behind the Board: What I Learned from “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson”
In 1982, I didn’t know the word for it. I only knew the feeling. But it was time to pick a college major, and that feeling stuck foremost in my mind. I’d long watched The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson first with my parents when I was finally old enough to stay up that late, and then on my own. HearingContinueContinue reading “Behind the Board: What I Learned from “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson””