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My grainy picture of Bob Dylan and The Band, 1974
Tweet Yesterday, I was plowing through a box of old prints looking for something else, and ran across the image above. The little red crop marks in the margins tell me that this ran in The Helmsman,...
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And here I am as a tyro journalist, at about the same time
Tweet I ran across this picture during the same search that produced the one of Dylan and The Band. Evidently, I did not take this. I don’t remember who did. Anyway, that’s me front and center looking...
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Counterculture heroes, or, Back when radical was chic
TweetI think Ginsberg was sitting among us in the amphitheater waiting to be introduced here. Several years ago, my wife gave me a scanner with an attachment for scanning negatives and slides. I had...
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Burl’s lifelong passion started at the usual age
Tweet Y’all know that my high school classmate Burl Burlingame gets to build model airplanes and rebuild real airplanes — cool ones — for a living. Doug and I have both been to his museum, and seen his...
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Take it easy, y’all — Atticus is still Atticus
Tweet Over the weekend, there was a national (and international) cry of pain as folks heard that, in the long-lost Harper Lee novel Go Set A Watchman, Atticus Finch turned out to be a cranky old...
View ArticleVideo: An upbeat Fred Sheheen, back in 2013
Tweet Fred Sheheen from Matthew Warthen on Vimeo. My son shot this clip at a fund-raiser for Vincent Sheheen at James Smith’s law office on April 16, 2013, when he was just starting to gear up for his...
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Is this whole campaign just a business move for Trump?
TweetRoger Murray at the wheel in 1978. As the complete journalist, I did my own photography, of course. When I was a young and inexperienced reporter at The Jackson Sun in 1978, I spent a few days...
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What newsrooms used to look like, long, long ago
TweetThe sardonic Managing Editor Bill Sorrels presides at his desk in the middle of the newsroom (he had an office somewhere, too). He’s apparently reading one of the proofs I fetched. You see Dave...
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Hear Joel Sartore and Photo Ark tonight at Harbison Theater
Tweet I’ve had the opportunity to work with a lot of talented people over the course of my career, and no one fits that description better than Joel Sartore. Joel Sartore Joel was a photographer at The...
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Top Five Posters from the Bedrooms of my Youth
Tweet We had a very brief discussion on a previous post in which some members of our commentariat speculated on what kinds of posters other members had on their bedroom walls when they were kids. I...
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Counterculture heroes, or, Back when radical was chic
TweetI think Ginsberg was sitting among us in the amphitheater waiting to be introduced here. Several years ago, my wife gave me a scanner with an attachment for scanning negatives and slides. I had...
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Burl’s lifelong passion started at the usual age
Tweet Y’all know that my high school classmate Burl Burlingame gets to build model airplanes and rebuild real airplanes — cool ones — for a living. Doug and I have both been to his museum, and seen his...
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Take it easy, y’all — Atticus is still Atticus
Tweet Over the weekend, there was a national (and international) cry of pain as folks heard that, in the long-lost Harper Lee novel Go Set A Watchman, Atticus Finch turned out to be a cranky old...
View ArticleVideo: An upbeat Fred Sheheen, back in 2013
Tweet Fred Sheheen from Matthew Warthen on Vimeo. My son shot this clip at a fund-raiser for Vincent Sheheen at James Smith’s law office on April 16, 2013, when he was just starting to gear up for his...
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Is this whole campaign just a business move for Trump?
TweetRoger Murray at the wheel in 1978. As the complete journalist, I did my own photography, of course. When I was a young and inexperienced reporter at The Jackson Sun in 1978, I spent a few days...
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What newsrooms used to look like, long, long ago
TweetThe sardonic Managing Editor Bill Sorrels presides at his desk in the middle of the newsroom (he had an office somewhere, too). He’s apparently reading one of the proofs I fetched. You see Dave...
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Hear Joel Sartore and Photo Ark tonight at Harbison Theater
Tweet I’ve had the opportunity to work with a lot of talented people over the course of my career, and no one fits that description better than Joel Sartore. Joel Sartore Joel was a photographer at The...
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Top Five Posters from the Bedrooms of my Youth
Tweet We had a very brief discussion on a previous post in which some members of our commentariat speculated on what kinds of posters other members had on their bedroom walls when they were kids. I...
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Hey, Mike! Remember when work was always FUN?
Tweet Well, this brightened up an otherwise dreary COVID day. I was trying to slog through my email, which has been stacked up awhile, and I got to one of those stupid emails from Microsoft Onedrive...
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You think THAT’S weird? Check this out…
Tweet The Washington Post runs this regular feature in which an art critic takes an extended look at an interesting painting. It’s a feature I frequently enjoy, but this one particularly grabbed me....
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