What I'm Listening To
So Much Country 'Til We Get There and Kick Stones (The Boys), Westside Cowboy
Restless, Palmyra
Memory Be a Blade, waterbaby
Big Ugly, Fust
Bleeds, Wednesday
What I'm Reading
Unholy Babylon, Adel Darwish and "Gregory Alexander"
Gary Stewart: I am from the Honky-Tonks by Jimmy McDonough
Some of my Favorites
Coffee
Redhawk (Pittsburgh), Broadsheet (Cambridge), Newbery St. (Boston), Gracenote (Boston), Delanie's (Pittsburgh), Chrome Yellow (Atlanta), Crema (Nashville)
Food
Soju (Pittsburgh), Trina's Starlite Lounge (Somerville), Luminosa (Asheville), Smiling Banana Leaf (Pittsburgh), Publick House (Brookline), Bell Buckle Cafe (Bell Buckle)
Beer
Dancing Gnome (Pittsburgh), Hitchhiker (Pittsburgh), East End (Pittsburgh), Treehouse (Sandwich), Trillium (Boston), Maine Beer Co. (Freeport)
Quick Reads
Live Closer to Your Friends
From shamrocks to Stanley Cups: The story behind the decorated benches in Schenley Park
Not just a humanities cat
There's more to mathematics than rigour and proofs
The Cloud Under the Sea