I forgot how I came across Cynthia Dall. I think lost in a web of cross references on both Pandora and iTunes Music Store while in my “looking for dreamy lo-fi female crooners to bliss out by” phase. Oh yeah, that’s pretty much been my phase for the past year. Anyway, she’s the latest on [...]

Today on NPR Melissa Block interviewed Willie Watts of Powder Springs, Georgia in conjunction with a story about how the the Georgia House of Representatives quickly passed a bill that would allow her to keep her homemade fried pie business open. Apparently, after the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper ran an article on her little home-kitchen business [...]

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the iconic “V” (not to be confused with the brilliant first novel V. by Thomas Pynchon, although both share a sense of theatrical subversion) is the iconic “W” (yes, that W) cut in half. V for Vendetta is an engaging, literate, razor-edged critique of the logical extreme of [...]