Spiting Ourselves Into A Backwater

Back in country, re-time zoning, getting reacquainted with my luggage which arrived home one day after I did, having missed the entirety of the German leg of the trip, and I’m just going to get right down to it and screed. No preamble. No messing about. Continue reading →

Of Reyner Banham and Charlie Mingus

(We here at All Fried Up in the Big Smoke are doing our damnedest to adhere to a very strict American boycott policy. Since we don’t pay anyone for contributing to this site, technically speaking, we’re not purchasing a U.S. product with today’s post. And besides, our Los Angeles correspondent, Ned Teitelbaum, is one of the good ones. With the subject matter being public transit, a favourite topic of ours, look at it as endeavouring to build a bridge between two beefing allies, no tolls applied.)

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Charles Mingus gave free concerts on the Red Car. Reyner Banham missed it. Continue reading →