Category: Reading

  • More Local Inspiration

    Quick shout to Eric Smith, who is some­thing of a blog­gy wun­derkind here in Philadel­phia. We’ve nev­er met prop­er­ly, but he and I have slow­ly built what I hope is a mutu­al admi­ra­tion soci­ety as we wend our way through the dense thick­et that’s known today as con­tent cre­ation and curation. If you’re not hip…

  • A Must-Read Unemployment Journal

    I love every­thing about the Awl (and have been mean­ing to pitch them, too), but one of my favorite reads there has been Sam Bid­dle’s Diary of an Unem­ployed Class of ’10 Phi­los­o­phy Major in New York City. Is it wrong to think it sounds like Goethe’s Werther? Just hope he does­n’t meet a woman…

  • Forget What I Said About the Phillies

    It’s going to be one of those seasons. Read Beer­lea­guer’s great post on what’s going on with Jayson Werth to glimpse inside the club­house. Snakebite hurts! Update: Bill Baer has even fur­ther insight over at Crash­burn Alley.

  • Quick Shout to Some Locals

    Want to know the secret to qual­i­ty blog­ging? It’s easy: pub­lish or per­ish. It’s a les­son I’ve tried to give myself here, off and on, for a good, oh, six (sev­en?) years since the days I was an under­em­ployed ex-grad stu­dent rail­ing on Blog­ger. With every relapse I promise to write more. To recom­mit to…

  • Geeta Dayal’s Another Green World

    I think I speak for every­one when I say that Gee­ta’s take on Bri­an Eno’s Anoth­er Green World for the 33 1/3 series was hot­ly antic­i­pat­ed. I can think of few titles in the series that gen­er­at­ed as much excite­ment from the time her pitch was accept­ed to pub­li­ca­tion. Those who wait­ed will be rich­ly…