(This blog post about my lifetime of Lou Reed concerts is the second of three parts. Here are part one and part three.)
I guess it was good news that Lou Reed had cleaned up his lifestyle and gotten sober sometime in early 1979, just before I went to my … Read the rest
There’s a moment in Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Actually, … Read the rest
Changes. Funny thing … I was planning on writing a blog post today about some changes I’m planning on making here on Litkicks. The site turns 18 years old (!) this Monday, July 23, and I’m planning to shake a few things up. I was going to write about that … Read the rest
1. What do we learn from Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974
It’s getting to be around that time in December when I put up a wrap-up post and disappear for a week or two.
I stopped by the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City recently, and was once again energized (a visit always helps) by the spirit in that eclectic … Read the rest
1. This rather remarkable painting, titled Hansel and Gretel, was painted by Zelda Fitzgerald in 1947.
2. Speaking of difficult literary ex-wives: earlier this year I wrote an article about T. S. Eliot’s Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and the Broadway show Cats in which I suggested that the … Read the rest
Bob Holman, creator of New York City’s Bowery Poetry Club and one of the early innovators of spoken word/slam poetry, has published a useful list on Facebook: 15 Rules For Hecklers.
Every serious poet should get heckled now and then. It helps to cut through the deadly pretension and … Read the rest
1. In between making videos for LitKicks and arguing with me about Roman Polanski, Jamelah Earle asked me to write a piece commemorating the 1000th front page feature for the wonderful “tribal photography” website Utata. I was honored to do so. I am not much of a photographer … Read the rest
(This is chapter seven of my ongoing memoir of the Internet industry.)
The World Wide Web was a social network from its earliest days, but it wasn’t much like the social networks of today. It was a small world, for one thing, and everybody in it had some degree of … Read the rest
