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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Counterculture
Far Out Company is a curated archive of 1960s–70s counterculture visual art — concert posters, TV shows, underground newspapers, commune newsletters, comix, hippie business advertisements, and album art. The website focuses heavily on the DIY design aesthetic of this era: … Continue reading
Parallel to what ?
Finally. You’ve always wanted to know which cities are on the same parallel (latitude) as yours across the globe. Now you can find out.
Dysfunctional Book Club
Badd, Gramm-mar, a comedy series following a dysfunctional reading group in Los Angeles with a rotating cast of comedians that have colliding perspectives, will appear weekly on YouTube on Tuesdays, beginning June 30. The series was created by Matthew Medney, founder … Continue reading
Oh the Horror
Subcutanean is a coming-of-age horror novel that Aaron Reed published in 2020, which tells of a college senior who discovered a secret basement beneath his house. The wild thing is that every copy of the novel is slightly different. Reed wrote … Continue reading
TL;DR etc. etc.
Long sentences can digress, meander, sing; the effect is a headlong immersion. Books with never-ending sentences are difficult to put down: Since there is no natural place to pause, halting anywhere feels like an interruption. The winners of the 2025 Bram … Continue reading
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The magic is only in what books say
It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that were once in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlour families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios and televisors, but … Continue reading
Be a planet, not a meteor.
Advice to A Young Writer1. If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and … Continue reading
Art from pain
I have to admit that I have a bit of the old PTSD from my hospital experiences, but I was intrigued by this multi-artist project. At Colossal: In Los Angeles, 70 artists transform a vacant hospital into a sprawling art experience. … Continue reading
Exonym Atlas
An exonym is a place name used by outsiders—for example, English speakers using Germany for Deutschland. The Exonym Atlas explores how other languages name countries and groups those names by usage. Fascinating to see the derivations of names, which don’t always follow language families: for … Continue reading
