Cody Hudson is a friend of mine. I’ll go as far as saying a pretty darn good friend of mine. I have no idea when or how we met, probably through the online cool guy dating machine called “outlook”, but it’s been a lot of fun. Over the past 5 years we have worked on […]

With so much going on – global credit crunch for one thing, global warming another – and so that we don’t feel like we’re at the mercy of events, it is always good to be fully informed.
Well, there’s a book which shows you everything from World population, car exports, tobacco and alcohol exports and nuclear […]

When I was about 20, I fell in love with the writings of Albert Camus. He’s still my hands-down favorite of any author who ever pecked at a typewriter. I think the guy is brilliant and universal in what he discusses and how he looks at the world and its issues.
When I started to […]

One of my nasty consumer habits is the purchase a few too many books. Makes moving a pain in the ass. Takes up space. I sometimes discover things years later and think “why do I own this?” Typically there is a good rationale, and most books fall into one of four main categories. Music and […]

I just picked up a couple new reads the other day.
Thurston Moore / Byron Coley’s book on NO WAVE.
Nice thick cardboard binding as Thurston’s books
seem to always have.

THE BLACK DEATH is written by the one of the leading
historians on the bubonic/ black plague, John Hatcher.
It is well done, so check it out.