“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket,” John Adams wrote to his son, John Quincy, in May of 1781. Today, nearly 230 years later, plenty of people are […]
Is that a poet in your pocket, or…?
The Writer
by Terry Hargrove I own the most aggravating, and therefore effective, alarm clock ever invented. It moves around the bedroom while I sleep, then shrieks like a jet engine every morning at […]
Nota Bene #105: The Illustrated Dick
“When all you are becomes defined as the amount of information traceable to you, what are we then? What have we become, in a world where there is no separation, no door, […]
Nota Bene #103: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
“To take people from the music world and give them the same kind of credibility that you give me, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker—that’s like an aberration. I know there’s some […]
Salinger: don't tell anybody anything…
Scholars & Rogues honors JD Salinger as our 32nd masthead scrogue. J.D. Salinger is dead. If you want to know about his lousy life or how he treated his kids or his […]
A hero for our time…
Today is the birthday of our original scholar rogue, George Gordon Byron, sixth earl of Newstead Abbey. I have been thinking a lot about Byron in the last week, partly because it […]
Nota Bene #100: Il Planetario di Figaro
Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. […]
Why do you want to be a storyteller?
“Why do you want to be a storyteller?” I asked my freshmen. It was the second time I had asked. The first time had been on the second day of class, an […]
Predicting the 21st Century: Nostraslammy's ten-year review
Ten years ago, at the turn of the millennium, Nostraslammy took a stab at predicting the 21st Century, with a promise to check back every ten years to see how the prognostications […]
The uneasy truth behind Tim Donaghy's allegations
Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who was convicted of two charges related to betting on NBA games (some of which he worked as an official), is out of prison, pimping a […]
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