Archive For April, 2010
When the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival lineup was announced I felt obligated to apologize for saying the lineup sucked a day prior. A few of the bands had leaked. As always, none of them appealed to me or anyone else under the age of 40. Sure, despite years of backseat grumbling I do [...]
Mike Kernell is my district’s representative to the Tennessee state legislature. As pitiful as it sounds, when I last voted I only knew who he was because his son, David Kernell, “hacked” Sarah Palin’s e-mail account. Then again, I’m not sure anyone even ran against him, but whoever it would have been would be so [...]
I was on the elliptical machine reading the Atlantic* this morning when I was hit by an urge to start writing again. Like, really writing. Essays, short stories, maybe even poetry, which I suddenly and mysteriously abandoned after high school. Writing was once something I practiced, like soccer or piano, until one day I just [...]
You really should read this. And their story intrigued me from the start, given that it’s at the intersection of so many issues in recent American life: the debacle of the government response to Katrina, the struggles facing even the most successful immigrants, a judicial system in need of repair, the problem of wrongful conviction, [...]
