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Cure for the Summertime Blues

Post author By Daedalus Howell
Post date July 5, 2019
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Summertime Blues: A Bigger Splash (1967), David Hockney. — A Bigger Splash (1967), David Hockney

Who says there’s no cure for the Summertime Blues? I mean besides Eddie Cochran… And, okay, fine, Brian Setzer. Besides those guys — no one. Because there are plenty of cures for the summertime blues. Among my favorite is the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows — a compendium of invented words written by video editor John Koenig.…

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I have the need — the need for mead! Not.

Post author By Daedalus Howell
Post date June 19, 2019
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As a media gadfly, I’m on every kind of PR list imaginable. Whereas I once resented receiving publicity spam, particularly if it was off my beat but now, given the absurdity of our culture, everything seems off-beat. I welcome it. I’m almost entertained, if not by the subject of the pitches themselves then the extra…

Tags culture, mead, new york, PR