A Legend In His Own Minefield
John MendelssohnPolitics, popular culture, sports, self-help, self-sabotage, and satire from the greatest writer in the English language, or at least someone whose work you're likely to enjoy.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 1799 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Coffee, Tea, or Cee(Lo)?
There are records that reach what the Beatles called the toppermost of the poppermost (that is, No. 1) and make the songwriter and the recording artist lots of money, and there are records that do not only those things. but also sweep away...
Twins, But Not Towers
The Duphis twins, Feekle (who was adopted) and Anyl, had names that began with different consonants, in contravention of twin-naming convention, Geneva and otherwise, because their parents didn’t have ChatGPT to ask for help, or the Interne...
Is The Band Feel the New Black Oak Arkansas?
You have probably noticed that there are lots of new 1970s revival hard rock bands on Facebook. They sound like Free and Aerosmith and especially Led Zeppelin and have ugly long hair. Their stylists (here I make big humor!) apparently bough...
Music for a Difficult Time
I wrote this song in 1978, and added two verses in 2024. I gave Bryan Ferry a demo of it when I met him in 1981. He hasn’t gotten back to me quite yet.
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Restack this, and I’ll admit, via private email, the remarkable provenance of t...
The Unhoused, the Tented, and the Homeless
The USA of mid-2026 is nearly unrecognizable from the USA from which I re-repatriated to England in mid-2015, and spent long enough between those times only to board and disembark from cruise ships.
Unimaginably gigantic data centers and...
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Graphic designer, writer, songwriter, actor, soft-hearted misanthrope, fabulist American expat living in England, where most of the music I love most, other than my own, came from.
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