I don't have strong opinions about Jacob Collier, but I do have extremely strong opinions about Björk, and I consider "Hyperballad" one...

Ryan Burge, a sociologist who garners attention as a pundit on US religion, recently published an essay on Substack about a poll on...

[Note: if you came here on my poems thread, the poem part is at the end.] A few weeks ago the New York Times  found it newsworthy that a...

I suppose this song is better for people north of the Mason-Dixon line in November, but it's happening here in East Tennessee today....

(Part of a thread to share poems or poetry-adjacent writing as discussed here.) I sit quietly without any phone service at my south...

Series Note: Once in a while, when excerpts from my online course on US religion (see below**) are timely for context, historical...