A Building Roam

writings on culture - Literature, Sports, Music, and more

Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Day After

›
Mere words cannot convey what occurred last night. My spine and my skull have been tingling all day and I've been devouring all the r...
4 comments:
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Baseball's Insufflation

›
Two weeks without any posts. Not a nice way to treat a perfectly good blog. As I've indicated a few times recently, my life is pretty ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Wu-Tang Bats All in the Sky

›
As embarrassing as the pop and glitter music that parades itself as hip hop may be to the true fan of Rhythm And Poetry, and as ubiquitous ...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Gustav Klimt's Medicine

›
Painted in 1901, destroyed by a fire in 1945. I hear music in my head whenever I look at Klimt's work.
4 comments:
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

"Keeper of My Soul" by Yesterday's New Quintet

›
Somebody put together a great video for this track by YNQ (otherwise known as Madlib pretending to be a jazz quintet all by himself). It d...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The Ides of August

›
Irene knocks down a tree in Central Park (Mario Tama/Getty Images) This was initially supposed to be written at the end of July or beg...
1 comment:
Sunday, August 28, 2011

"Teems of times and happy returns"

›
After finally completing that big list about James Joyce in the last post , I wanted to let it simmer atop the page for a while. I didn...
1 comment:
Monday, August 1, 2011

16 Reasons Why James Joyce is the Greatest Writer Ever

›
I actually started to write this over a year ago and now it's finally complete. It was originally intended to be posted on June 16 ...
36 comments:

Sublime Poetry

›
A recent piece in The Guardian by Carol Birch provides a short but beautifully accurate summation of the art of James Joyce, particularly F...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

The Beltran Era

›
His final game in a Mets uniform was a typical Carlos Beltran performance. Two walks, a single, an RBI, and 3 runs scored. He went out in pe...
Friday, July 29, 2011

The Wave that Washed Your Meals Away

›
The excitement of the 2011 major league baseball season suddenly burst into supernova recently. It all began late Tuesday night in Atlanta. ...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
PQ
Austin, Texas, United States
NYC native, nomadic world traveler, food-for-thought gourmand, baseball fanatic, hip hop head, heavy reader, James Joyce enthusiast. "A Building Roam" is my vehicle for writing about all of these and more. Leave a comment or email me here.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.