Why Funky Little Bookstores Matter

Love (or Something Very Nearly Like It)

Faith Is An Abstract Art...

Your Mission, If You Choose to Accept It
Okay, I've got this friend, see. And she's a Creative Compatriot from way back. We worked on this together. Plus we've just got a kind of platonic Cosmic Compatriation thing going. She's good peeps. And about six months ago we were like, you know, how can we go ahead and change the world or whatever? We hashed it out, thought about it. Made notes. Sent a lot of emails and stuff. Talked on the phone. Then we were, like, how about we're just accountable to each other for creative output? Okay. And then let's take it another gigantic step. What if we're accountable to the entire effing

Quick Question: Chimp Attack
Um. Okay. This pisses me off, for some reason. (No, not the pic, which is equal parts adorable and gross.) A) This lady that went on Oprah, the one who had her faced ripped off by a chimpanzee, has known suffering I hope to GOD I never know. It's safe to say that that much any of

Beitel-blog: Glossary of Frequently Used Terms, Concepts, Curios, and Obscurities
Settings: Coordinates & their associated monikers.The Magic City. Birmingham, Alabama. AKA, the Stomping Grounds.The Heart of Dixie. Alabama, Alabama. AKA, Sweet Home.The Federal City. Washington, DC. AKA, the Erstwhile Hometown.Dramatis Personae: Influential spirits/corporeal bodies, on stage & off.Nate Silver. Founding editor of the American political website http://www.f

Beitel-blog: FAQ
Who are you and why are you here?I am a child of the Nineteen-Seventies, the Aquarian Age. I spent my unassuming formative years on the outskirts of the self-proclaimed Most Important City in the World, Washington, DC. Mine was the American boyhood: the endless pursuit of sporting contests, real or imagined. I was small but fast, and I could throw a football in a tight spiral. I disliked school. Etc. My father was an old man, a frustrated visual artist with a weak heart and abiding passions: the endless pursuit of sporting contests, real or imagined; Sunday morning political talkshows; atheism; a venomous hatred of Ronald Reagan and the so-called supply-side eco

Oh-Hi-Oh-Hi
Still alive. Making nice headway on Ye Olde Booke Projecktte. Also I'm fittin-a do some housecleaning around here. Add a few bells and whistles over there on the righthand portion of things. Updates. Raison d'etre [Plurals of that? Hmm.]. Whatnot. Stay tuned. Until then: carry on. Live long. Prosper. Etc.