Two Good Men

Album cover artwork Sacco and Vanzetti are two names that any vaguely left-leaning person will recognize. Come to that, maybe right-leaning ones will too. Their story is simple; known anarchists, they were framed for a murder that “they almost surely didn’t commit,” according to Entertainment Weekly,...

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Plains of old Nebrasky-o

Album artwork Program 8 Broadsides in the Sounds to Grow On series contained some wonderful songs, and some terrible ones (Song for Patty, anyone?). Some early Bob Dylan, some early Bob Dylan wannabees, some glorious others. But how could I resist a song that starts

In school I...

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A network of plastic tubes, with blown air assisting cyclists in their direction of travel.

That sounds like a whole lot of fun, in a Futurama kind of way. I'd be there, for sure. Tom Turner says a similar idea has been proposed for Toronto. Wonderful notion, [crap web site] (http://www.ve...

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Stormy Monday

“Everything is word of mouth,” said the Famous Writer, as I asked him for a recommendation. Which is a good reason to start something I've been meaning to do for a long time. Michael Asch has been presenting a series on CKUA Radio, in Canada (and everywhere else) built around the rec...

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Three hibiscus flowers showing what I think might be the effect of temperature on pigments

We’re enjoying a rather good late autumn here in Rome, and the hibiscus are still blooming. The strange thing, as The Squeeze’s trained eye noticed, is that they’ve changed colour. The top image is the gray variety photographed in late August. The middle one is a flower on the same bush photograph...

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