End of an Era

As of September 2, the “personal home page” provided with my ISP account in 1996 is gone. I created the content there as a hobby and just for fun but many of the skills I learned in the process worked their way over to my career at some point. When the World Wide Web was

More Than a Critic

A milestone in musical criticism, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music by Greil Marcus is a demanding read. But for all that is packed into its 177 pages (without the still-expanding “Notes and Discographies” section), it is worth the effort. Alternately provocative and off-putting, the book polarizes online reviewers: “The ur-text