Notable Sandwiches #94: Jambon-Beurre
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of...
Announcing my new book, WILD FAITH!
Howdy y’all, I want to personally thank every subscriber to this newsletter (picture me giving you a very light kiss on the cheek in the European fashion)...
Time is a Flat Circle: True Detective, 10 Years Later
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #93: Jam
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I stumble our way through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of...
Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: A History of Hollywood in 30 Films
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #92: Italian
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my long-suffering editor David Swanson, trek through the enormous and unwieldy document...
A Messiah Anointed with Snake Oil
It’s 2024, and we are all living in a world created by dead televangelists. Those big men with their waxen faces, made up for klieg lights—the Jerry...
100 Years in Babylon: An Archival History of Los Angeles
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwich #91: Italian Beef
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my long-suffering editor David Swanson, trek through the enormous and unwieldy document...
Full Windsor
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #90: Indian Taco
By Sara Calvosa Olson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my charming and long-suffering editor David Swanson, trip merrily...
The Return of Paul Manafort, Thug Whisperer
The return of Paul Manafort, as reported this week by the Washington Post, marks a stunning turnaround for one of the most shamelessly corrupt figures in...
The Soothing Hands of Craftsmen
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or playing....
Notable Sandwiches #89: Hot Dog
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my charming and long-suffering editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the befuddling...
Robert Oppenheimer, Destroyer of Worlds
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Voices at a Revolution
By David Swanson A Village Voice staff meeting in the late seventies "We didn't want to be seen as a left-wing newspaper particularly," said Village Voice...
The Village Voice's Freak Scene
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #88: Hot Brown
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my long-suffering editor David Swanson, wend my way through the ever-shifting document...
The Eternal Return of the Border Wars
“Lady Fortune and her Wheel” by Jean Pichore, c. 1510 Nietzsche had a theory of eternal return—drawn from Indian thought and his own fizzing and eloquent...
How to Live in a Female Body
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...