A Building Roam

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

Saturday, October 29, 2022

A Post-Mortem for the 2022 New York Mets

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Jacob deGrom looking off into an uncertain future. With baseball engaged in its final series before the 2022 season ends, I feel compelled t...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Several Short Videos of the Sea from my iPhone

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Back in the landlocked capital of Texas in Austin at the height of summer, I'm missing the ocean. Scanning through several videos of the...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

ReBuilding and Re: Recent Roamings

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"The Hut" by Fanny Howe Up the hill is a hut made of sound where two windows rhyme and the tiles stay on because they are nailed t...
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Sunday, December 5, 2021

The Sacrifice

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"Had to sacrifice all to earn favor"                 - Ka, "Eye of a Needle" One night back in March of this year, I was...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Baseball in the Works of the Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)

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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...
Saturday, April 3, 2021

The Hypnotic Mountainscapes of Nicholas Roerich

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He Who Hastens (1924) Nicholas Roerich   Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) was a Russian symbolist painter, and a writer, archeologist, philosop...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Baseball 2021 Predictions

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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...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Three Interviews with Master Craftsmen on the Art of Hip Hop

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Producer Madlib recently appeared on BBC Radio 6 for a lengthy convo with Gilles Peterson, talking about his friendship with MF DOOM, his la...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Album Reviews: Pandemic Era Rap Elixirs Curated

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"Ghost Hammurabi" is a new track from Killah Priest, it also feels like the latest installment of the style heard throughout Pries...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Peace CodeX

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  Peace CodeX from CodeX  (1974) by Maurice Roche  
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Life and Death During the Pandemic Era

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