A Building Roam

The American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti passed away in March 2021 just a few weeks shy of reaching his 102nd birthday. Last year I wrote abo...

He Who Hastens (1924) Nicholas Roerich   Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) was a Russian symbolist painter, and a writer, archeologist, philosop...

The whole world changed in 2020, and baseball changed more than it has in more than a century. 2020 was the shortest MLB season ever, the sh...

Producer Madlib recently appeared on BBC Radio 6 for a lengthy convo with Gilles Peterson, talking about his friendship with MF DOOM, his la...

"Ghost Hammurabi" is a new track from Killah Priest, it also feels like the latest installment of the style heard throughout Pries...

  Peace CodeX from CodeX  (1974) by Maurice Roche  

The last several years I've written annual recap blog posts sharing things from the past year that inspired me (places I traveled, books...

The young Delmore Schwartz, probably sometime in the late 1930s.  A couple years ago I became interested in the American poet Delmore Schwar...

Dick Allen batting for the Chicago White Sox. Playing for Chicago in 1972, he won the AL MVP Award. One of the most dominant hitters in majo...

Front cover of JJQ volume 57.3-4. Cover art by David Nowlan. I am excited to have a new piece that was published in the latest edition of t...

My new album review was just published at Hip Hop Golden Age, the piece is called "The Interstellar Corridors of Killah Priest's Ro...