New Music from the Perfect Vessels

The Perfect Vessels' new EP, Habitual Long Distance Lovers is now available for free download.  

A Poem About the Memphis Grizzlies

Here's a poem I wrote about the Memphis Grizzlies during last night's game, when they beat the Oklahoma City Thunder last night to advance to the Western Conference Finals.

May Miscellany

I knew there was something I wanted to tell you...

April Reading

Here's what I read in April.

From the Archives: Alex Chilton at Earnestine and Hazels

It was ten years ago today that I saw Alex Chilton play a rowdy show at Earnestine and Hazels in downtown Memphis.  Here's a post I wrote about it back in in 2010.

Photographs of Famous Authors from The Commons on Flickr

Flickr calls The Commons, its collaboration with the Library of Congress, "The world's public photo collection."  It is a large respository of copyright-free images that anyone can use.  I browsed around to see if any of my favorite authors showed up, and here are the results.

William Prynne, Dissenter

This is William Prynne, a British polemical writer of the 17th century.  There's a reason he wears his hair like that.