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Olympic Medals in Perspective

It’s fairly clear that large, wealthy nations are more likely to win medals in the Olympic games. So I got to wondering

CNN recently reported that the movie Deliverance has reached its 40th anniversary. Like a lot of people, I suppose, I’ve always found

The most recent Mad Men episode licensed the Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows,” which proved, despite the price, to be a brilliant move,

Some time back I was in Barnes & Noble and a book jumped off the shelf at me. I was enjoying thumbing

Outspoken stand-up comedian Bill Hicks was invited to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman on October 1, 1993. Though he

Early in their career, the garage/psych band The Droogs released a single entitled “Ahead of My Time,” an appropriate theme song for

This is the second in a series of posts on movies with psychedelic themes, discussing the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the

The book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, published in 1974, describes a 1968 motorcycle trip by the book’s author, Robert Pirsig,

“Pink Moon,” the title track from the 1972 album by Nick Drake, is one of those songs that stays with you. But

Rankopedia is a website that believes “everything can be ranked.” One of the more interesting categories is The Biggest Punk Icon of