April 1st, 2022 | by msalt
Franks's pretty smart, though he's not big on schooling and doesn't even read that much. But he asks good questions, and somehow after you talk to him for a while you know more than when you started
April 15th, 2021 | by msalt
Probably the most surprising hit show of the last year is Ted Lasso, a concept that seems ridiculous. A hyper-optimistic [&hellip
December 26th, 2020 | by msalt
The great (but troubled, junkie) jazz pianist Bill Evans and his combo — Eddie Gomez and Martin Morrel — played [&hellip
December 9th, 2020 | by msalt
I was listening to a band, live on some upstate New York radio station, and couldn’t shake the idea that [&hellip
September 10th, 2019 | by msalt
As a favor to our friends over at The Palindromist Magazine, here are the results of the SymmyS Awards for [&hellip
March 10th, 2018 | by msalt
Underlying many of the fierce arguments about whether Westerners are appropriating Daoism is a basic question: is Daoism Chinese? If [&hellip
January 19th, 2018 | by msalt
The Netflix series “The Crown” offers a very interesting bit of applied Daoism, spread across three episodes in Season 1. [&hellip
November 26th, 2017 | by msalt
In the Broadway smash hit “Hamilton,” our hero meets his future wife Eliza Schuyler by first hitting on her sister [&hellip
January 31st, 2017 | by msalt
I’m not a big meme guy, in part because it’s hard for them to get into any reasonable level of [&hellip
July 9th, 2016 | by msalt
A post last year looked at the ways in which even the best scientists — Albert Einstein, for example — [&hellip