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The Ballad of Ollie Jackson | North American Review

The online version includes links to rare archival recordings.

04.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This essay was years in the researching/writing, and I’m thrilled that it landed in such a beautiful magazine.

04.03.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is my son’s joke, btw.

27.02.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On it!

23.02.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A Picture of Stack Lee | North American Review

I found a picture of the real Stagger Lee, and it was not what I expected:

23.02.2026 03:26 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Trump is going to make that little boy give him the Grammy.

09.02.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hell yeah that’s Nick Offerman raving about my wife’s podcast. Because it’s the best one.

01.02.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Aaron Rodgers in the postgame press conference complaining about β€œTwitter experts” ruining football. He’s so close to getting it.

13.01.2026 05:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
It was one thing when Mr. Trump called a reporter "piggy." Or casually threatened to put a half-dozen members of Congress to death for accurately stating the laws of war. Or labeled all Somali immigrants "garbage." Or declared that daring to question his physical energy level at age 79 "seditious, perhaps even treasonous." But when Mr. Trump cavalierly attacked the Hollywood icon Rob Reiner just hours after his body was found in a grisly murder scene, it sickened even some of his own political allies.

It was one thing when Mr. Trump called a reporter "piggy." Or casually threatened to put a half-dozen members of Congress to death for accurately stating the laws of war. Or labeled all Somali immigrants "garbage." Or declared that daring to question his physical energy level at age 79 "seditious, perhaps even treasonous." But when Mr. Trump cavalierly attacked the Hollywood icon Rob Reiner just hours after his body was found in a grisly murder scene, it sickened even some of his own political allies.

β€œYes, you in the back, I see you have your hand up.”

β€œWhy was it β€˜one thing’ all those other times? I mean, I know why, we all do, I just think it’d be good to acknowledge it.”

19.12.2025 02:13 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My son is funny.

13.12.2025 03:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Mr. Fred Rogers saying
"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better

Screenshot of Mr. Fred Rogers saying "I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better

"than to have us feel awful about who we are."

"than to have us feel awful about who we are."

"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."

29.11.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 1325 πŸ” 476 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 9

Hagueseth

29.11.2025 05:16 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Working on a Song
Working on a Song YouTube video by Todd Snider - Topic

Gutted to lose Todd Snider so early. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_CuE...

15.11.2025 15:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gone Fishin’ - The American Scholar Could two famous rivermen really have met their end while grappling giant fish in a Kansas river?

As long as I’ve got my laptop and summer breaks, no urban legend is safe.

06.11.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kansas too!

05.11.2025 21:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I gotta say it was a good day

05.11.2025 06:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Selfie’, a poem by Eric McHenry, from our October / November issue.

Order the latest issue here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

04.11.2025 10:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He doesn’t realize that his is a non-speaking role.

03.11.2025 14:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Whenever I see Mary Ruefle’s β€œMadness, Rack, and Honey” my brain sings it to β€œLawyers, Guns, and Money.”

29.10.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sonnet in The London Magazine!

12.10.2025 21:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Waywiser Press did a wonderful anthology of them a few years back, β€œJiggery Pokery Semicentennial.” Recommended!

09.10.2025 22:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Attention versiverse: Gretchen McCulloch writes double dactyls.

09.10.2025 19:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

30.09.2025 16:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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News!

30.09.2025 15:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not at all surprising that the notoriously nimble Democratic political machine planned ahead 23 years to plant a fake Trump drawing in Epstein's birthday book. That Chuck Schumer sees around corners!

10.09.2025 01:45 πŸ‘ 280 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

This is a good joke and also my son wrote it

01.09.2025 19:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
What Lies Beneath the Levee Camp Holler - The American Scholar Eric McHenry investigates a century-old crime preserved in music

Talking levee-camp hollers on the Smarty Pants podcast. When the work is peonage, the work songs become protests.

30.08.2025 16:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Who Killed the Mercy Man? - The American Scholar An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song

Who killed the Mercy Man? If levee bosses were just a bunch of interchangeable Mr. Charlies, then they all did.

theamericanscholar.org/who-killed-t...
#Music #History by Eric McHenry via The American Scholar

26.08.2025 16:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Sunday Long Read: Football Tragedy, Crabs, Mercy Man The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.

Don't miss this week's SLR featuring @henrymceric.bsky.social, @harleyrustad.com‬, @kevinmaurer.bsky.social, @tomjunod.bsky.social & more! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

25.08.2025 14:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

So people are using AI to dump people in order to pursue relationships with AI.

22.08.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0