Anchor States

Because of the internet, everyone's an artist, and everyone's a critic. So there's an imperative for every self-respecting...

This is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It's on the Outer Banks. My grandparents lived here in the 70s and 80s, and my parents lived he...

I never wrote about China like I said I would. It was too much. The end result was that I felt somehow grafted into a new family. Ambiva...

I might have something to say about all this later, but I doubt it. It's too much... the whole visit was more like a marathon, touring l...

If you recognize this place, then you might see some irony in my being there. Great pains are taken to preserve the "environmentally f...

Last week I finished my first scratch-build of a guitar amplifier. It's an almost-clone of a famous circuit from the 1960s and 70s, the...

It just won't fit in 140 characters. I'm at home as I write this, which is really strange. The last time I spent New Year's on...

It didn't take long for the coherent and nuanced thesis of Shopclass as Soulcraft to become a single-jpeg internet meme . While I obje...

I took some criticism for my complaint about newer postmodern American novels -- specifically that they're ultra-boring -- both private...

I keep returning to Cormac McCarthy's novels; he may be my favorite fiction writer. He often gets lumped in with "postmodern ficti...

Camille Paglia has finally jumped on the manual-is-intellectual bandwagon . I do kind of want to hate on her for being so late to the party...

I posted to Twitter that we played a house show in Arcata, CA on 7/18 and there was crowd surfing. Here is the proof. I didn't take th...

I don't really feel that I've reached the opposite coast until I swim in the ocean. This beach was near Arcata in far northern Cali...

I'm posting from Lincoln, NE. We're a week in. So far, so good. Having had three years since the last tour, nobody knew what to e...