Poetic pragmatism, neo-transcendentalism, bikes, burritos, basketball.
In yet another shallow record-industry ploy to sell the same album twice, the Rolling Stones recently asked producer Don Was to dig through their Exile On Main Street archives and produce a remastered version with a few additional tracks. Thinking about Exile reminds me, of course, of Robert Frank’s documentary with an unprintable name, a [...]
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A formula for determining your NPR name: You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited. Yelapa is a tiny village near Sayulita, Mexico, and the naming formula was concocted by Liana Maeby.
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Today is the fifth anniversary of George Harrison’s death, as I found out when NPR ran a sweet tribute to him this evening. Back when such things mattered, George was my favorite Beatle. Why do such things not matter anymore? I mean, really, is there any question that is more revealing than “Who is your [...]
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Last summer, NPR did a series on one of my favorite architectural elements — the front porch. An installment from late July covered the use of the porch in contemporary home-building, specifically in New Urbanist (wikipedia entry) developments, such as Seaside, Florida and other pseudo-quaint “towns”. (More on my problems with New Urbanism another time). The most [...]
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the About Me page that I wrote about me.
