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Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. In Nashville. Wrote a book-and-a-half on Belfast & one on the Kinks. Latest is John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical”-Mail on Sunday
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Found this in a little free library today and I should never have started reading it because it's making me disappointed in myself for never having read Powell before.

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Christ's sake, Chicago, I'm just trying to go for a walk.

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I believe this place sells neon signs

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After nearly 3 years of querying, I have finally had an agent express interest in my first novel. A pleasing development.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I am currently in Oklahoma City and let me tell you nobody's talking about anything other than the basketball. The birds are singing about the basketball. The clouds are humming about the basketball. The trees are whispering "basketball... basketball..."

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I've been researching the absence of sexual violence as a topic within exhibitions on the Holocaust when I discovered the Imperial War Museum has a temporary exhibition on sexual violence in conflict. The exhibition was a trauma-informed, powerful, and much needed example of what we can do. #IWM

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Favorite road trip albums?

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

Going to Memphis tomorrow. Might drop by the pyramid and go bowling, buy some bait.

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Happy June 1st, everyone.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Not now, I'm listening to Tom Zé. youtu.be/dz0ftbNUNEk?...

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European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

The Pavement movie is the most Gen-X thing it's possible to make in this decade and I loved it.

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Writing a whole entire book about a bombastic 19th-century huckster just so I'll have an excuse to use the word braggadocio in print.

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Very sad news. The man was a giant.

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Elvis with Sergio Mendes and Paul Anka in Las Vegas, 1972.

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wrote about the AF problem

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My local city park has the coolest dang t-shirt. store.friendlyarcticprinting.com/products/fri...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Goodnight

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

The new Tunde Adebimpe record is quite wonderful, isn't it? Reminds me of what first drew me to TV on the Radio way back when they started (over 20 years ago, it seems), energetic, inventive, catchy, smart, and good.

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I am reading a book about, and feeling bad for, Montgomery Clift.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

The Center for Popular Music at MTSU (my school) has just acquired the archives of Maximum Rocknroll, including some 60,000 punk records. Come on down, y'all. We'll go out for vegan barbecue.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Where are we on Camus? Do we still read, assign, and/or think about Camus?

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

Where are we on Camus? Do we still read, assign, and/or think about Camus?

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

Just realized I graduated high school 30 years ago this month. Pleased to report I've mostly recovered.* *recovered from the realization, not from high school

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