Category: link

• Unexpected Sunday Bliss: Joy Division

  Oh, the bass of it!  I didn’t wake up this morning expecting to listen to an old Joy Division album–things just sort of happened.  I was listening to Radiohead, and it just sort of struck me.   To be honest, I hadn’t thought much about this band for a long while, so cranking it up, on…

  JunkChuck

  November 16, 2014

  link, video

  joy division, sunday brunch, unknown pleasures

• Is Pittsburgh The New Austin?

  Clickhole poses the question, making a compelling argument: http://www.clickhole.com/article/pittsburgh-new-austin-austin-we-hoped-and-dreamed–1227 …but no, gentle readers, Pittsburgh is neither the new Austin nor next Portland.  Those places were just plain old rough drafts for the final, perfected product. http://www.pinterest.com/chuckjunk9/pittsburgh-king-of-cities/

  JunkChuck

  October 31, 2014

  Commentary, link, Photo I Like, Yinzerism/Pittsburgh Advocacy

  austin, best, city, cool, green, hip, number one, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, portland, smartest, thriving, top ten

• Shakepeare & Company–The Center of The World

  Vanity Fair Magazine has a great article on what might be the greatest book store in the world.  I can’t say for sure–I’ve been to City Lights in San Francisco, Powell’s in Portland, and Rizzoli in New York City, but I’ve never been to Paris.  I’m a book fetishist at heart–as fond of old volumes…

  JunkChuck

  October 21, 2014

  Commentary, link

  beats, books, bookstore, Eliot, fitzgerald, ginsberg, hemingway, Joyce, Paris, Pound, Shakespeare & Company, whitman, writers

• Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?

  I try to use social media to augment my life, rather than dictate it. It’s been easy cutting way back on facebook, twitter fries my brain, and it is my intention to be the second to last person on the planet without a smart phone.  My wife will be the actual last.

  JunkChuck

  October 6, 2014

  link, video

  facebook, narcissism, selfie, social medai, youtube

• Join The Fight!

  Cable companies want to slow down (and break!) your favorite sites, for profit. To fight back, let’s cover the web with symbolic “loading” icons, to remind everyone what an Internet without net neutrality would look like, and drive record numbers of emails and calls to lawmakers.  Are you in? https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/?t=dXNlcmlkPTUyMzcxNzMxLGVtYWlsaWQ9OTAzMg==

  JunkChuck

  September 9, 2014

  Commentary, link

  evil rich dudes, fcc, internet, internet defense league, net neutrality, slowdown, Unfair

• Pittsburgh: They Know How Awesome We Are In Austrailia

  “Pittsburgh has gone from rustbucket city to thriving metropolis.” STEEL is forged into the very identity of Pittsburgh. The former industrial powerhouse’s American football team is named The Steelers, and at one stage the city produced one-third of all of the steel in the United States. Pittsburgh was staunchly blue collar, with a strong manufacturing…

  JunkChuck

  July 20, 2014

  Commentary, link, Yinzerism/Pittsburgh Advocacy

  pittsburgh, renaissance

• The Colorado Independent: News Poems

  I’m continually scouring the internet, looking for poetry to roll around in like one of those crazed grizzlies on Kodiak Island loll about in rotting whale flesh–intoxicated by the joy and sensory overload of sustenance, bounty, excess.  I found that The Colorado Independent is doing a series on poems inspired by the news–don’t think about…

  JunkChuck

  July 19, 2014

  link, Poetry

  art, birds, blog, colorado, flood, independent, news, poetry

• My Parents Were Awesome (Well, not my parents, but…)

  Here’s a Found Summer Photo I can actually source.  I lifted it from a cool as cucumbers tumblr page called My Parents Were Awesome.  Sadly, my parents were not awesome–they took us on vacation in October because the crowds were shorter–visiting every restored Colonial Village from Saint Augustine (we had time to tour the fort,…

  JunkChuck

  July 18, 2014

  link, Photo I Like, sheer awesomeness

  1970s, america, awesome, classic, concert, cool, ford, galaxie, parents, summer, vintage

• “Don’t Sneak”–a great story from NPR

  The entire StoryCorps program is pretty damned awesome. http://www.npr.org/2014/06/27/325917505/dont-sneak-dads-unexpected-advice-to-his-gay-son-in-the-50s

  JunkChuck

  June 29, 2014

  link

  fatherhood, fathers, gay, history, honest, love, npr, sneak, son, spoken, storycorps, wisdom

• I Have A Tumblr Page

  Well gawl-ley, Sgt. Carter. Don’t remember signing up, but there it is…see the link right—here:  http://chuckjunk.tumblr.com/ I reblogged a funny picture of a dog in a marijuana field. I learned what a gif is. I posted one of those.  It’s really funny, too.  I’m dizzy with a sense of accomplishment. It’s been a technological whirlwind.…

  JunkChuck

  July 10, 2013

  Commentary, Journal, link, Uncategorized

  junkchuck, tumblr